Thread:Cyrannian/@comment-5496489-20150915212055/@comment-4960835-20151004132109

That doesn't matter, as what you said is 100% true.

Perhaps not all empires should be connected as they are now, but grouped into power blocs of neighboring empires, leaving gaps between the blocs? We'd have, for exemple, an block of UAE empires (+Zarbania), were most of our fiction would take place, seperated by empty space from the Lanats, UMC and Ignatus.

Another bloc could be the Imperium of War + Former Tyranny territories, seperate from their UAE powet bloc neighbours, since there has been historically a strip of no-man's land between the IoW-DT alliance of one hand and the UAE on the other. Or perhaps even small strips of empty space between the colonizers of former Tyranny space, since much if it has been ravaged and thus is useless?

All in all, just a suggestion to illustrate it's a big place as you said.