Thread:Wormulon/@comment-12149779-20130713152157/@comment-1073312-20130713165501

Something I should have mentioned.

It is very hard to start off with an empire above Tier 3, mostly because there is already so many higher tech species, it can become a trend. Because there is so many, it hard to make them original or sensible unless you know the fiction universe really well enough to justify it.

Tier 3 is a good place to start, since it easy to bridge the gap between low tech fiction and higher tech fiction. Although if you want to start out Tier 5 or 4, the Katar Sector is a good place to start, ask The Clanden about that.