[@Fabulous Knight][@Polybius]

While the argument can be pretty easily made that anyone who can lay claim to the resources of multiple stars should probably be post scarcity(being an engineering/physics student I tend to make that argument a lot but I like space opera and can keep my work and likes sepperate) but I didn't mean to imply this setting necessarily was post scarcity(I don't know if it is or not), just that in sci-fi setting in general having your one thing that can't be replicated or is only found in a couple places helps a lot to base a big feudal system around. Especially if that thing happens to be what makes FTL work or something.