Editing Galactic empire (section)

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In the final arc of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga series by [[Naoko Takeuchi]], a fictional organization called [[Shadow Galactica]] has established an empire all over the Milky Way. Shadow Galactica is stealing "starseeds", the essence of sentient life in the galaxy. Its members come from different Star Systems and Sailor Galaxia, the self-proclaimed "Golden Queen of Shadow Galactica", has built her palace around the Galaxy Cauldron, the birthplace of all life in the Milky Way located in [[Galactic Center]].

[[Bertram Chandler]] wrote two interstellar series – one [[A. Bertram Chandler#Empress Irene series|featuring a Galactic Empire]] ruled by a series of non-hereditary Empresses while the other has [[A. Bertram Chandler#John Grimes novels|a Republican Galactic Federation]]. Chandler's Empire and Federation, both relatively benign, have much in common – both covering the same volume of space, having much the same kind of Space Navy and both having the same commercial spaceflight company called "The Dog Star Line", suggesting that these are two [[alternate history]] timelines which branched off from the same original space travelling culture.

In [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s [[Hainish Cycle]], the interstellar entity known as "The League of All Worlds" and later as "The Ekumen" is in possession of the '[[ansible]]' (a tachyonic device). Technology makes possible instantaneous interstellar communications, and the ability to send instantaneous unmanned ships carrying bombs to another planet is exploited as well. However, living beings cannot survive such travel, and thus humans are limited to space exploration at relativistic speeds. Correspondingly, this organization, despite on occasion waging war across interstellar distances, ends up being looser than a true empire.

Author [[Orson Scott Card]]'s "Starways Congress", an organization featured in the work ''[[Speaker for the Dead]]'' (the follow-up to ''[[Ender's Game]]''), similarly relies on the ansible. Yet it is more [[authoritarian]] and less benevolent than Le Guin's creation. Much of the story-line of the book and its sequels involves attempts to avoid interstellar bloodshed despite difficult circumstances.