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We've never had a long-term, consistent Star-Empires series (Since the original and the first two or three reboots were Star Empires by KeyGuy on the MCForum) because:
A) A very key person dropped out (Such as the Nouvellians whom everyone was involved with, and no one was as involved with anyone else)
B) We all got to Galactic Superpowers and wars were a war of numbers, for example, thirteen bloody trillion ships with superdarkmatter guns versus fourteen bloody trillion ships with supermagicshields, or one solar-system-sized ship versus everyone else, etc
C) We all got tired of each other because it was the same BS, and lost interest

Hopefully we'll be more political, but idk.