User blog comment:CoolCat123450/Character Sheet 1/@comment-4867780-20150607090509/@comment-5265497-20150608012112

Yeah, but it's a general authoritarian/totalitarian political ideals that absolutely that doesn't make brainwashing a requirement. Most of the civilizaion that would read it aren't remotely close to the zone and far outside the borders where he would attack.

Yeah, for the most part it is a slaughter, but they have turned war into an elaborate political game and have slowed down there advances so it doesn't seem like as much of a stomp to actually simulate 'war'. Like the Xelee in Xelee Sequence could stomp Earth's entire network but willingly chose not to while Earth adamently continued attacking. Plus, anybody can willingly join.

But for not cheating, reality warping would be a big one... actually Lawrence and Cassius are pretty similar in this regard.