Talk:Milurian Empire/@comment-1743498-20130918131309/@comment-1743498-20130919021238

Ultimately, it's easier to conceptualize the changes if the civilization was much younger - around a few thousand years old. However, if you want to actually have this society last for millions of years, then you'll have to rethink it from the ground up and totally redesign them:

Firstly, consider their technology. If they have been around so long, either the Milurians would have to be unimaginably advanced, or they would have some sort of self-imposed tech caps. One of the easiest options is to make it so that they lost interest in technological development at one point, and became a society all about fulfilling pleasures.

The second thing to take into consideration would be their physiology. Humans took about 7 millions years to evolve to their modern form. Naturally, even a civilized species like the Milurians would have evolved to fit their environment. And I mean fit it. By the time of their fall, they would be not be recognizable at all as Milurians and would have become an entirely different species altogether. There are many ways to go about this from having them live inside simulations to having them no longer self-aware, able to go about their daily lives on instinct. (To make it interesting, perhaps they cycled between these phases).

Lastly, the Milurian Revolution would have had to take place over a much longer period of time. If a single event like that could topple the entire empire, the rules of probability say that similar events in the past should have destroyed the empire long before it got as advanced as it did. The Milurian Empire would have had to be in a state of decline and disarray for quite a while before anyone would even consider a revolution.