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* Has occurred several time in the history of the world in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The Valyrian Freehold fell during the "Doom of Valyria" and before that the Ghiscari Empire conquered much of the continent before they were displaced by the Valyrians. And then the Targaryens, one of the few survivors of Valyria, went on to conquer Westeros and found their own Empire, the Seven Kingdoms, and the story starts 15 years after the last Targaryen king was dethroned in Robert's Rebellion, and while the kingdom survived the initial aftermath of the war events within the series kickstart the fracturing of the state into its own regions again.
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* Has occurred several time times in the history of the world in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The Valyrian Freehold fell during the "Doom of Valyria" and before that the Ghiscari Empire conquered much of the continent before they were displaced by the Valyrians. And then the Targaryens, one of the few survivors of Valyria, went on to conquer Westeros and found their own Empire, the Seven Kingdoms, and the story starts 15 years after the last Targaryen king was dethroned in Robert's Rebellion, and while the kingdom survived the initial aftermath of the war events within the series kickstart the fracturing of the state into its own regions again.
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* Has occurred several time in the history of the word in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The Valyrian Freehold fell during the "Doom of Valyria" and before that the Ghiscari Empire conquered much of the continent before they were displaced by the Valyrians. And then the Targaryens, one of the few survivors of Valyria, went on to conquer Westeros and found their own Empire, the Seven Kingdoms, and the story starts 15 years after the last Targaryen king was dethroned in Robert's Rebellion, and while the kingdom survived the initial aftermath of the war events within the series kickstart the fracturing of the state into its own regions again.
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* Has occurred several time in the history of the word world in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The Valyrian Freehold fell during the "Doom of Valyria" and before that the Ghiscari Empire conquered much of the continent before they were displaced by the Valyrians. And then the Targaryens, one of the few survivors of Valyria, went on to conquer Westeros and found their own Empire, the Seven Kingdoms, and the story starts 15 years after the last Targaryen king was dethroned in Robert's Rebellion, and while the kingdom survived the initial aftermath of the war events within the series kickstart the fracturing of the state into its own regions again.
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* This is more or less the basic model for the study of Chinese history. A dynasty is founded with the Mandate of Heaven, and renews/maintains the roads, dykes, levees and other infrastructure necessary to the health of the empire. Gradually, corruption and decay set in, the dynasty loses power to the eunuchs, literati, and local governors, and the infrastructure is no longer maintained. Eventually the old, rotten dynasty is deposed by a new one, who obviously was given the Mandate of Heaven to rule after the previous one had its divine favor revoked due to its wickedness and corruption.
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* This is more or less the basic model for [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing the study of Chinese history.history]]. A dynasty is founded with the Mandate of Heaven, and renews/maintains the roads, dykes, levees and other infrastructure necessary to the health of the empire. Gradually, corruption and decay set in, the dynasty loses power to the eunuchs, literati, and local governors, and the infrastructure is no longer maintained. Eventually Eventually, the old, rotten dynasty is deposed by a new one, who obviously was given the Mandate of Heaven to rule after the previous one had its divine favor revoked due to its wickedness and corruption.
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* It has happened multiple times in Britain as well:
** First Cycle: As Brittania was a Roman province, this cycle was mostly identical, except it fell apart 70 years earlier in 410 when Honorius abandoned it.
** Second Cycle: The Anglo-Saxons. The expansion phase started with the Anglo-Saxon invasion about a century after the withdrawal of Rome, and really got underway during the reign of Alfred the Great. That ended with Athelstan and peaked under Edgar the Peaceful, before entering into decay after his death and the final century was marked by repeated conquests by outside powers like the Danes and Normans. The final one after the reign of Harold Godwinson immediately led to...
** Third Cycle: Norman-Angevin Empire. Started with the Norman Conquest in 1066, and entered the stable phase after a period of civil war ultimately won by Henry II who ruled over England and much of France, being the most powerful king in western Europe at the time. It entered the decay phase even by the very end of his reign and certainly under his successor Richard the Lionheart who spent all but six months of his reign outside of England warring or in captivity. He was followed by John who lost the vast majority of his territories outside of England (Long Night).
** Fourth Cycle: The British Empire. The expansionist phase started with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I as England started exploring the globe with designs on setting up colonies in the New World. This phase lasted around 250 years until the victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 left the now united Britain as the largest and most powerful empire the world had ever seen. This would last for the next century until World War I put Britain firmly in the decay phase. Finally, it entered the Long Night phase after the Suez Crisis of the 1950s and within the next couple of decades would see Britain lose almost all of its old empire outside of the British Isles themselves.
** First Cycle: As Brittania was a Roman province, this cycle was mostly identical, except it fell apart 70 years earlier in 410 when Honorius abandoned it.
** Second Cycle: The Anglo-Saxons. The expansion phase started with the Anglo-Saxon invasion about a century after the withdrawal of Rome, and really got underway during the reign of Alfred the Great. That ended with Athelstan and peaked under Edgar the Peaceful, before entering into decay after his death and the final century was marked by repeated conquests by outside powers like the Danes and Normans. The final one after the reign of Harold Godwinson immediately led to...
** Third Cycle: Norman-Angevin Empire. Started with the Norman Conquest in 1066, and entered the stable phase after a period of civil war ultimately won by Henry II who ruled over England and much of France, being the most powerful king in western Europe at the time. It entered the decay phase even by the very end of his reign and certainly under his successor Richard the Lionheart who spent all but six months of his reign outside of England warring or in captivity. He was followed by John who lost the vast majority of his territories outside of England (Long Night).
** Fourth Cycle: The British Empire. The expansionist phase started with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I as England started exploring the globe with designs on setting up colonies in the New World. This phase lasted around 250 years until the victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 left the now united Britain as the largest and most powerful empire the world had ever seen. This would last for the next century until World War I put Britain firmly in the decay phase. Finally, it entered the Long Night phase after the Suez Crisis of the 1950s and within the next couple of decades would see Britain lose almost all of its old empire outside of the British Isles themselves.
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* The Shi'Ar Empire from ''Franchise/XMen'' was in the Phase 1 under the rule of D'Ken. Under Lilandra it set up on Phase 2 but various crises (many of which involved X-Men) threw it into phase 3, leading to secret conspiracy trying to re-estabilish D'Ken as a ruler, only for [[PersonofMassDestruction Vulcan]] to take it over, leading to new Phase 1, which lead to ''ComicBook/WarOfKings''. After their defeat Shi'Ar are now in another Phase 2.
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* ''ComicBook/XMen'': The Shi'Ar Empire from ''Franchise/XMen'' was in the Phase 1 under the rule of D'Ken. Under Lilandra it set up on Phase 2 but various crises (many of which involved X-Men) threw it into phase 3, leading to secret conspiracy trying to re-estabilish D'Ken as a ruler, only for [[PersonofMassDestruction Vulcan]] to take it over, leading to new Phase 1, which lead to ''ComicBook/WarOfKings''. After their defeat Shi'Ar are now in another Phase 2.
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* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': It's mentioned that Akielos and Vere used to be one state in the ancient past, called the Artes Empire. The empire collapsed long ago and split into the two countries as they are now, but there are still several ruins of the former empire strewn about both kingdoms. [[spoiler:In the side stories, with Damen and Laurent electing to create a new capital in Delpha/Delfeur and rule together, it's implied that they may reforge the empire with their new union]].
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* In ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'', Lady's Empire is clearly Phase 1, however [[spoiler:it later moves to the Phase 2]]. This trope is even lampshaded in ''The Silver Spike''; [[spoiler:after a brief EnemyMine between the new management, a leftover minion of the original ruler, and LaResistance to take down the last of the original evil overlords the rebels decide the current incarnation is no worse than the petty kingdoms it replaced and leave them to it.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'', Lady's Empire is clearly Phase 1, in the Expansion phase, however [[spoiler:it later moves to the Phase 2]]. Stabilisation]]. This trope is even lampshaded in ''The Silver Spike''; [[spoiler:after a brief EnemyMine [[EnemyMine alliance between the new management, a leftover minion of the original ruler, and and]] LaResistance to take down the last of the original evil overlords the rebels decide the current incarnation is no worse than the petty kingdoms it replaced and leave them to it.]]
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* The ''Literature/CoDominium'' was an alliance between the United States of America and the Soviet Union that took over earth and colonized most of known space, it collapsed when the founding states finally sterilized earth in a nuclear war. Then the former American colony Sparta decided that humanity must be united under a single rule and conquered the other surviving colonies forming the Empire of Man, some centuries later this Empire falls thanks to a rebellion by the Sauron supermen. After a few more centuries of dark age a Second Empire emerges.
** In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'' the Second Empire contacts an alien race that due to their ridiculous breeding rate experiences the empire cycle frequently, so much so that they've depleted their system's supply of fissionable material. However they're restricted to one system because the only [[HyperspaceLanes Alderson Point]] in their system of origin leads into a red supergiant.
** In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'' the Second Empire contacts an alien race that due to their ridiculous breeding rate experiences the empire cycle frequently, so much so that they've depleted their system's supply of fissionable material. However they're restricted to one system because the only [[HyperspaceLanes Alderson Point]] in their system of origin leads into a red supergiant.
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* The ''Literature/CoDominium'' was an alliance between the United States of America and the Soviet Union that took over earth Earth and colonized most of known space, it which collapsed when the founding states finally sterilized earth Earth in a nuclear war. Then the former American colony Sparta decided that humanity must be united under a single rule and conquered the other surviving colonies forming the Empire of Man, some Man. Some centuries later this Empire falls thanks to a rebellion by the Sauron supermen. After a few more centuries of dark age age, a Second Empire emerges.
** In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'' the Second Empire contacts an alien racethat that, due to their ridiculous breeding rate rate, experiences the empire cycle frequently, so much so that they've depleted their system's supply of fissionable material. However they're restricted to one system because the only [[HyperspaceLanes Alderson Point]] in their system of origin leads into a red supergiant.
** In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'' the Second Empire contacts an alien race
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has gone through the empire cycle at least once, after the fall of the First Federation Terragen space was divided into several "sephirotic empires". And it's indicated that the Sephirotics are fragmenting. That's despite they are ruled by Mega Giga AIs without human weaknesses. The authors never get tired of elaborating by how ludicrous a factor are their minds above puny human ones, but it seems that preventing the Cycle of Empires from completing is beyond their ability, too.
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' ''Website/OrionsArm'' has gone through the empire cycle at least once, after the fall of the First Federation Terragen space was divided into several "sephirotic empires". And it's indicated that the Sephirotics are fragmenting. That's despite they are ruled by Mega Giga AIs without human weaknesses. The authors never get tired of elaborating by how ludicrous a factor are their minds above puny human ones, but it seems that preventing the Cycle of Empires from completing is beyond their ability, too.
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* The Cycle from ''VideoGame/{{Enderal}}'' is both a ViciousCycle and this, but unlike most examples of the latter trope, here, in each of its iterations, it concerns ''the entire humanity''. [[spoiler:Moreover, there is every reason to believe that the Cycle is something like the law of being. Initially, life is born, mankind comes out of it, which leads to the foundation of a first civilization, the fall of which usually occurs as a result of a grand catastrophe (Expansion). Then, those who proclaimed themselves gods form a [[TheTheocracy theocracy]] with them at its head, thus establishing a second civilization (Stabilization). Sooner or later, the rulers are killed, which plunges the world into a vortex of chaos, wars, and a large-scale epidemic (The Decay). After that, humanity learns about the existence of the Cycle, thanks to the experience of already deceased [[{{Precursors}} predecessors]], and tries to prevent its completion. It is noteworthy that all their actions end up and lead to the final stage of the Cycle - [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Cleansing]] (The Long Night). Why? The Cycle exists only for the birth of a new [[EldritchAbomination High One]], the collective consciousness of a bygone civilization. This is their form of reproduction, but all that the already existing High Ones do for this [[ManipulativeBastard is just manipulate the doings and desires]] of [[TheChosenMany several Emissaries]] in order to spur them on to the necessary actions. In other words, humanity, due to some of its vicious qualities, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero itself initiates the last phase of the Cycle]] [[SelfFulfillingProphecy without the direct intervention of the High Ones]]. It is implied that mankind always has a chance to actually interrupt the Cycle, but for thousands of the Cycle's iterations, no one has managed to do so.]]
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* The Cycle from ''VideoGame/{{Enderal}}'' is both a ViciousCycle and this, but unlike most examples of the latter trope, here, in each of its iterations, it concerns ''the entire humanity''. [[spoiler:Moreover, there is every reason to believe that the Cycle is something like the law of being. Initially, life is born, mankind comes out of it, which leads to the foundation of a first civilization, the fall of which usually occurs as a result of a grand catastrophe (Expansion). Then, those who proclaimed themselves gods form a [[TheTheocracy theocracy]] with them at its head, thus establishing a second civilization (Stabilization). Sooner or later, the rulers are killed, which plunges the world into a vortex of chaos, wars, and a large-scale epidemic (The Decay). After that, humanity learns about the existence of the Cycle, thanks to the experience of already deceased [[{{Precursors}} predecessors]], and tries to prevent its completion. It is noteworthy that all their actions efforts end up in and lead to the final stage of the Cycle - [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Cleansing]] (The Long Night). Why? The Cycle exists only for the birth of a new [[EldritchAbomination High One]], the collective consciousness of a bygone civilization. This is their form of reproduction, but all that the already existing High Ones do for this [[ManipulativeBastard is just manipulate the doings and desires]] of [[TheChosenMany several Emissaries]] in order to spur them on to the necessary actions. In other words, humanity, due to some of its vicious qualities, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero itself initiates the last phase of the Cycle]] [[SelfFulfillingProphecy without the direct intervention of the High Ones]]. It is implied that mankind always has a chance to actually interrupt the Cycle, but for thousands of the Cycle's iterations, no one has managed to do so.]]
