User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The Democratic Imperium of Neohumanity/@comment-4867780-20150916222115/@comment-26322734-20150918020316

"I was mostly thinking about imperialistic planar superpowers several steps ahead of the Imperium, and major extraplanar predators drawn to all this planeswalking the way daemons from W40K are drawn to psykers." Creatures like that don't really exist in the Methuselahverse. Well, actually, I wouldn't go that far. I'd say that creatures like that don't take much notice to lower beings like Neohumanity, but rather the higher cosmic entities like Archmagi, Fae, and other reality warpers of that nature. And even then, they're not attracted to them because of their ability to planeswalk, but rather they were summoned or something happened to have them manifest. As for imperialistic planar superpowers, as I said, the Imperium keeps their hands off unless absolutely necessary to step in. "It's true the mix of negociation/detterment and powerful defenses / reliable evacuation should considerably dampen the risks and consequences, but if the other side is substancially more advanced/powerful, they would have no trouble hunting the Imperium down and finishing the job." You're forgetting that each Neohuman has the essence of an entire universe inside of them (said essence being Asteraoth), and you're also assuming that Asteraoth hadn't thought of such things in the long term. Before he'd stepped in, he'd taken years to make sure he got allies ranging from archmagi, lesser aeons, to even the faeries themselves. There's a pretty big amount of heavy hitters watching over Asteraoth's creation because they owe him favors or are simply loyal to him. Plus, remember the Replication Initiative. If faced with an overwhelmingly advanced force, OZMAGNUMOPUS can simply copy + paste said technology for the Imperium and upload all the knowledge necessary to run them into the Human Mind Network. Not only that, but they continue to advance in tech (I just hadn't updated yet), so the People's Imperium hasn't gone soft at all.