Thread:CaptainTybusen/@comment-24565400-20150207020923/@comment-1892820-20150217014241

It probably wouldn't be a good idea for them to enact xenophobic wars on the rest of the galaxy whenever they're not killing each other, but I could see the Marko Sector factions acting hostile towards any encroachment on their sphere by the Grand Spodist Church, who is the other major power that directly neighbors them (besides the Eldarisians). I could see the GSC-Marko hostilities beginning with GSC attempts to expand towards Marko midway through the GSC's history, and the Marko factions could potentially hold their own against the GSC's might when united.

I'm curious though as to how the Eldarisians were able to reach dominant sector power status so quickly considering that their page says that the Empire was founded in 2784 (only about 20 years to the in-universe date). The Empire's youth would explain why the GSC only just discovered them recently in a sector that they keep tabs on, but I'm not sure if the Eldarisians could build up that quickly especially in a sector that was previously dominated by numerous competitive factions.

Also, I don't imagine Marko would necessarily be ignored by the major powers because of its coldness and hostile natives, especially if it has valuable biological resources, but it would likely be more because Marko is outside of most of the other major powers' spheres of influence, with the GSC and Eldarisians being the only ones close enough and with enough historical interaction with it to realistically stake a claim.