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Originally Posted by jason taylor
I think you are missing my point. It is not conquest that is a threat to planets that have learned to thrive in the Long Night, it is peace. If they can compete at all survivability is their big sell. In a time of order, it is capacity.
Oh and technically, Venice was beaten by a number of factors including the centralization of territorial states. Speaking of which, it was beaten by conquest-in 1848.
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And Napoleon conquered it fifty years earlier. But it was the transfer of the main trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic that gutted the Venician economy. The core of Venician strength died long before Napoleon showed up.