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They're suffering from the age-old problem that writers cannot write characters smarter than themselves.

Huh, all this time I thought it was an acronym but it's really just an odd name. https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Niops_Association Basically, it was a Star League research outpost spread across three habitable planets in the same system, and when the Amaris coup and all the coup stuff went down...

Do note also that in BT, families take the more prestigious name so the prestigious families appear to go on much longer than they would in our world. Liao and Kurita've gone through several events that, in Europe, would have been dynastic changes (Including the Kurita family ostensibly dying...

NIOPS it is then.

It's called hyperbole, a literary device that exaggerates to an extreme for effect. I'm aware that there're more than literally two sentences on those clans. There's simply an extreme paucity of information on around 80% of the clans compared with writers' pet clans. One need merely look at...

In truth most of the clans have, like, a few paragraphs and a single shtick to make them stand out slightly. Diamond Sharks are Ferengi, Goliath Scorpions are stoned out of their minds, Nova Cats have mysterious pyromancy visions, Cloud Cobras are super religious in some vague way, etc. This...

Federated Suns tend to mostly get to be the good guys throughout the setting. There's only a few narrow situations where they won't be the best choice for a commoner. That said there're some fairly specific exceptions and this is going to vary a bit between timelines, I'd definitely pick...