User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The Democratic Imperium of Neohumanity/@comment-4867780-20150916222115/@comment-4867780-20150918024048

Overwhelmingly advanced forces would logically have countermeasures in places against potential replications, and pretty much anything the Imperium could throw at them. It notably reminds me of the Builders, a precursor race that stomped the combined might of all Marvel civilizations when they returned, beating each of them at their own game because they were simply that much better.

On the other hand, Asteraoth watching over individual citizens with his overwhelming power and intelligence are definitely an efficient counter (the Builders were notably single-handedly defeated by Captain Universe), especially since he can reliably calculate the less risky paths. And when it comes to truly unmanageable threats, he can count on the support of fellow archmagi and nigh-omnipotent cosmic entities (an important precision ;).

Can't help wondering how he got this much back-ups though, and notably why they didn't help more with the Drvaka, instead of leetting him be killed over and over.