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What kind of small to medium town would be present on the border of two opposing nations?
Las Vegas!
Where else can you go to escape the anti-gambling and prostitution laws of your country? Where can a human go to see an orc cabaret? Where can trade freely move without the taxes and rules ...
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What kind of small to medium town would be present on the border of two opposing nations?
If the city can not grow out into a power on its strength, then the situation is socially unstable.
Neither the humans and absolutely not the orcs are peaceful guys, and only better adapting to jungle ...
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What kind of small to medium town would be present on the border of two opposing nations?
Treaty Town
Two powerful leaders on both sides have found a reason to have that town. It could be that neither wants the other to hold the strategic mountain pass, and that they reached this ...
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What kind of small to medium town would be present on the border of two opposing nations?
I would postulate a market town. Built for defence and populated by any races providing services for merchants. So inns, prostitutes, travelling gear and a big market. Then guides, guards, traction ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
there are a lot of canonical examples and serious analyses that answer your question somewhat philosophically already, so I'm gonna throw in something a bit more alt: the Rajneeshpuram community (...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Euroatlantic Empire
The Empire started as the technological development in the late medieval has made possible a never seen explosion in research, commerce and science. That has lead to the emergency ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Viva San Marco!
There used to be a tiny town in northern Italy placed in a flat lagoon... then the traders from there rescued the bones of evangelist Marcus and went on a spree of becoming an economic ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
The Dutch empire originated primarily through economic means. The Dutch East India company especially was an economic entity that gained influence in the East Indies through contracts with local ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
The simplest way to achieve that scenario is to have your Empire's security depend on something else than military might.
You almost nearly answered your own question. If the Economic Powerhouse sits ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
What's the motive?
Yes, your wealthy state is well-positioned to rise in power, but the normal state for such states is to milk the trade and sit fat and happy. And non-expansionist.
Why does it make ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Could an empire form primarily due to economic strength rather than primarily military strength?
False dichotomy, IMO.
The purpose of a military is to extract wealth, i.e. is economic. Examples:
Pax ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Well, yes, obviously
"Could an empire form primarily due to economic strength rather than primarily military strength?" Of course. Sure. Plain obvious. Because, you see, military strength ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
Yes: the Athenian Empire is one such example
A Hegemony is an alliance or confederation where a single state holds all of the practical power and say-so. A Hegemony is not formed by conquest, but ...
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Could an empire rise by economic power?
It's a sort of chicken and egg problem: to fuel an army, you need a supporting economy, and to defend a strong economy you need a supporting army.
So, yes, economic strength is a good starting point ...
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Sci-fi scenario: Is it possible to detect and either broadcast over or otherwise block satellite comms to and from a geographic area that you control?
Much bandwidth? 110bps is enough
Count dissidents as foreign spies, consider that they only need to transmit (not receive) only a few bits of information per assigned task, and you'll understand that ...
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Sci-fi scenario: Is it possible to detect and either broadcast over or otherwise block satellite comms to and from a geographic area that you control?
Seed clouds to create thick dense areas of cloud storm coverage. Albeit only temporary but clouds could be seeded daily to cause poor reception until reflective dome built to bounce satellite away ...
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Sci-fi scenario: Is it possible to detect and either broadcast over or otherwise block satellite comms to and from a geographic area that you control?
Jamming.
Consider the real-world problems of GPS spoofing. There are relatively small and low-powered transmitters and receivers in orbit, relatively small ones in the portable phones, and large and ...
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Sci-fi scenario: Is it possible to detect and either broadcast over or otherwise block satellite comms to and from a geographic area that you control?
Most usually there is no need for any kind of technical solution.
In the real world companies such as SpaceX need a license in order to provide communications services in a country; in the vast ...
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