Rulers.
History was littered with them…beings who rose to positions of absolute authority and wielded power over empires that spanned Star Seas.
Some rulers arose within long-standing empires that had been pillars for eons, stable structures that had weathered countless threats and persisted through cosmic cycles that had destroyed lesser organizations.
Yet somehow, impossibly, their rule just so happened to cause everything to crumble, and empires that should have lasted eternities fractured under leadership that made catastrophic decisions or possessed fatal character flaws that spread like rot through administrative hierarchies.
And then there were rulers who rose inside empires that were already fractured, filled with disunity and internal conflicts that suggested imminent collapse was inevitable.
