Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
You mean real life implications that sometimes, the colonized nations were worse than the colonizer? Because that happened.
I'd really like to know which real life examples you are referring to, since historically no, it has not been the that colonized people were somehow "worse" than the people colonizing them.

Anyway, the Garlean Empire rebuilding seems rather unlikely with the Eorzean Alliance as the world's dominant economic and military power, and the number of rebelling provinces that all have a vested interest in not letting the Garlean war machine rev back up.

You talk about Garlemald rebuilding thier empire as if that's some kind of neutral, nation-building excercise, but that would involve reannexing pronvinces that just rebelled because they did not want to be under imperial rule. An empire by definition requires imperialism and subjugation of imperial subjects.

There's no need to restore the Garlean Empire to rebuild Garlemald as a nation. I'm sure the Garlean way of life can go o just fine without imported slaves to mine thier cerulean and dress thier nobles.