[Randallw]

Incidentally, I just realised I read a book recently with this situation.Praxis. Its a large empire with conquered races. The heads of the empire all commit suicide (apparently when you make yourself immortal you run out of space in your head to remember things after a few hundred years). With the rulers dead the different races decide to keep the empire, but the oldest conquered race reckon they deserve to be the new leaders and civil war breaks out.

Edit: If we go the Inner sphere route, I grab Kurita.

[ April 27, 2004, 09:18: Message edited by: Randallw ]