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Author: StarSword

Jun 15th 2013 at 8:06:00 AM

@Larkmarn:  This doesn't make any distinctions between government type.  All it requires is that one polity controls the majority of known space.

Literature:
* In the ''Literature/StarCarrier'' series the human government, the Terran Confederation of States, is one of the small fringe factions.  The series deals with their efforts to avoid being subsumed or destroyed by the Sh'daar Masters, an empire that controls most of the galaxy through a variety of vassal species.

''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'':
* In ''EV Nova'' the closest thing to this is the Auroran Empire, which isn't a single polity so much as a loose confederation of warrior clans that fight among themselves as often as they fight the Federation or the Polaris.  Collectively they control a huge swathe of territory along the bottom half of the map bigger than the other two superpowers put together.
* In the ''VideoGame/StarfleetAdventures'' mod for ''Nova'' (a total conversion for 23rd-century ''Franchise/StarTrek'') the Federation controls a patchwork of systems that amount to roughly half the map (which covers both the Alpha and Beta Quadrants), with other polities (Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Gorn, etc.) interspersed among them.