The Empire

The Empire is first mentioned in 'Tall Tales in Space'.
The Empire shares a border with the United Planets and FPSO. The border worlds of the Empire are populated only be human slaves. The Empire is constantly at war with its neighbours but uses only genetically modified humans and other humanoids.
The rulers of the Empire are 'Big Black Nasty Spiders' an ancient and long lived race.
Quote from Tall Tales in Space:
Isaac rolled back on his hind legs and said, ‘Yes,
tell me about the Empire.’ 
The human nodded, ‘The Empire. It’s like a nightmare. Out
past Ross 154, about 100 light years towards galactic centre. Our border
touches theirs there. I suppose we have always been at war with them. The only
bits that we have ever seen are the slave planets. The actual empire itself is
said to extend for hundreds and hundreds of light years, maybe all the way to
galactic centre.’
It was funny, thought Rewton, like a ghost story for
children, the Empire seemed to exist to scare the member planets of the UP into
line. Like medieval stories of the devil, the fear of the dreadful alternative
kept them all together.
Isaac seemed to wave a well elbowed arm in a gesture that might have meant Rewton was to continue.‘Well.’, Rewton shrugged, ‘It could be all propaganda, I don’t know. I have seen pictures of who the rulers of the Empire are supposed to be. Big black nasty spiders, but you never get one on the border, we only hear stories from prisoners and released slaves. The tip of the Empire that we can see from our border maybe goes about a dozen systems deep and all of them are slave planets. In the war we fight other humans or genetic soldiers. We call the Empire Spiderspace.’ , 'Rewton shrugged, ‘What can I say? For us humans, it's our worst nightmare.’
Author's Note:
There was a story I wrote a long time ago about the crew of the Cassandra, a Valkyrie class warship that had fought against the Empire in the Rim Worlds of the United Planets. It was written in pen! I've probably lost it, but this was the first story written about Bill's Universe.
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