Yeah, that's what spurred me on when I thought about it. I want to do a militarist faction, but I also wanted to uplift promising species and even technologically enlighten / infiltrate non FTL-races. If invasion without enslavement is an option, I'd also like to do that if enlightenment/infiltration is too expensive.



In short I want to go all Alexander the Great on the galaxy... But keep it unified through pampering new species and letting them vote (if democracy, otherwise limited self-govern with sectors) once I have made them mine. They will be made to serve, but serve happily, and protected and served in return.



The question is of course pertinent to anyone who doesn't go genocidally Empire of Man or aim to enslave half the Galaxy.