>>715267839
Fuck off blondy, it's democracy that conquered the stars. It held your crumbling imperialism at bay while you were helped by space plutocrat.
Your legacy is literally cancer.

>>715268259
>it's impossible to arrange elections at that scale and with that many disparate cultures
Are you stuck in the 17th century?
Literally, all you need is fast communication and even the monarchy-wank setting of LogH had that.

IMO you cannot even have a space civilization without fast transport or those sent away from all the cool stuff to colonize, would discover that another group launched on a faster/FTL ship later and you are now unwelcome immigrant.
In fact, one could even argue the mentality of "colonist" are people who HATE current civilization and believe it will be better if they go elsewhere where it's legal to kill the people they don't like.

Instead of the current kind of colonist who just needed local resources, built a tourist trap and now it's a cultural melting pot with aliens.