Re: Some random thoughts

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>     Back to the original post: I've thought about that myself, actually.
> Endless war is actually more believable with lower technology, because it
> has happened before (Hundred Year War, 30-Year War), because it takes a
lot
> longer to expend local resources.  Heck, I think Rome was rarely at
> peace...it was always fighting some war somewhere.
>


To a degree. With entities controlling planets and star systems, the
resources are virtually inexpendible (barring truly epic forces).
A planet with a 1 billion population could field an army of like 4,000,000
troops (China!), so a star system with 10 spheres/stars (depending on
whether you use spheres) can conceivably field 40 million. Most spelljamming
forces are far smaller than that - and both the IEN and the "Dark Nations"
have FAR more resources at their disposal plane-wide.