User blog comment:Holokami/Ae'ani/@comment-4867780-20170114020519

Somehow, the Ae'ani give me a strong "Imperium of Elfkind" impression (the space elf version of Warhammer 40.000's Imperium of Mankind) : highly advanced, militarist, imperialist, chauvinist and xenophobic, who respect strength above all else and whose foreign policy revolves around the systematic eradication/enslavement of other species, ruled by a godlike emperor with an iron fist (senators are ultimately just middlemen relaying sectorized informations).

That's quite a lot of common ground, probably much more than differences. Even more so since all the worshipping and inquisition only started after the God-Emperor's physical death. If he had survived, the Imperium of Man and the Ae'ani empire would be pretty much indissociable after ten thousand years of progress and expansion under his rule (eventual defeat of the Chaos Gods and global utilitarization of the Immaterium's psycho-reactive energies under his guidance afterwards).