Talk:Mykarian Empire/@comment-4799917-20140111023015/@comment-4799917-20140114012021

Based on that logic, there are just over 10 billion civilizations in the milky way galaxy.

If you can manage extragalactic colonies but not have a large home base, how does that make any sense. By any logic, you should have at least 100000 stars before getting colonies, even then the technology required for travelling those distances is immense. Even with the 100k stars thing, there would still be hundreds of thousands of civilizations, which I can hardly think possible.

Extragalactic colonies would also be useless for an empire. Ships are easy targets for privateers because of tracking tech, and those areas can easily be occupied unless if you spend unecessary amounts of time on reinforcing the areas with fleets when you should be protecting your developed galaxies.