'Really Existing Magocracy' in the Sorcerers Axis by CastleGreifenghast, literature
Literature
'Really Existing Magocracy' in the Sorcerers Axis
The economics of the Sorcerous Axis exists in two mutually contradictory states. Firstly, there is the economy as it ideologically and legally exists in state regulations. Secondly, there is the economy as it actually exists and functions. According to state propaganda, the Sorcerers’ Axis is a utopian world of plenty that has abolished scarcity and greed alike through the universalisation of magic. Suspicious-minded observers would note that this propaganda very closely corresponds to the Prophecy that led to the creation of the Axis in the first place, while bearing almost no reality to how the Sorcerous state actually works. A problem faced after the Magical Revolution was that the Prophecy didn’t actually provide terribly much in the way of concrete details as to how a fully magical economy was meant to work; the Prophecy ‘proved’ that it would work, but the revolutionaries didn’t know how it would exactly work. The vision was essentially a cornucopia endlessly giving forth plenty;
[SWISW] On the Imperial Star Destroyer by RvBOMally, literature
Literature
[SWISW] On the Imperial Star Destroyer
The following is an excerpt from The Naval Battles of the Galactic Civil War, written by Professor Anton Varnus of the Anaxes War College. --- The Imperial I, and later Imperial II, class Star Destroyers are one of the enduring symbols of the Imperial Navy and the Galactic Civil War. To this day, the iconic dagger or arrowhead design is inextricably associated with the New Order, both in the Empire and the Republic. So strong is this visual association that both Imperial and Republican governments use the triangular form as a symbol of Imperial order and power, or oppression and tyranny, depending on the author. Even modern ship design adheres to the aesthetic "rule" that Imperial ships are triangular, as evidenced by the post-war Resurgent-class. The Resurgent, as its name implies, is a deliberate attempt by Empress Palpatine to recall the glory days of her grandfather's rule. But as iconic as the Imperial Star Destroyers are in the galactic public's collective consciousness