Thread:Firedance/@comment-29301-20171118225706/@comment-29301-20171124173354

That sounds so cool. Similar things have happened to me, where I start to write something and its scope just undergoes a gloriously monstrous super-size-ization.

Reminds me of a project my brother started many years ago. He was in this forum RPG, which was set in pre-Republic times, and he came up with a faction called the Eriaduan Imperium, which was basically the Roman Republic/Empire in space, complete with a kind of Space Catholicism that took the form of a Force-based state religion. And he started writing this thing called the Chronicle of the Eriaduan Emperors, which was supposed to be a history of the whole thing, and quite transparently influenced by the writings of Edward Gibbon. The draft begins with this paragraph:

''"When one considers the great many circumstances that have surrounded the Eriaduan Imperium, one is immediately overwhelmed by the vast history of that extensive monarchy, which commanded for so long the greater portion of the galaxy and the most civilized, the most cultured, and the happiest portion of the sentients of any known era. Surviving for millennia in a nearly unbroken chain of rulers, the Eriaduan Emperors preserved the memory of a noble people and a proud tradition, even when their throne was disgraced by the most worthless, the most corrupt, and the most degenerate of persons. Reaching a level of tenacity and luxury that seems hardly possible to even our modern senses, the Imperium, after surviving longer than any other known state (except for, of course, the notable exception of the Old Republic) fell in a revolution of little more than four standard cycles. Such is the unhappy fate of a people who for so long had preserved with glory the weight of an empire, devoted to prosperity rather than destruction, yet not insensible of the need for a just defense, or even a perfidious betrayal. This tome shall serve to instruct this current and the future generations of the history of that empire."''

The document continues for about twenty thousand words and was, of course, never completed. In retrospect, certain parts of it were silly, but on the whole I think my brother had a lot of interesting ideas. He became a bit of a history buff at an early age, which gave him a knack for constructing political intrigue.