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** They're both bad enough that Crichton feels that destroying the ''entire universe'' is a better option than allowing either side to gain supremacy over the other.

* The Dalek and Sontaran empires in ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Subverted in the Classic Series with the Draconian Empire, which is more [[The Kingdom]] than anything else.

* The Zangyack in ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''.

* In ''[[Andromeda]]'', the [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzschean]] plan during their rebellion against the [[The Federation|Systems Commonwealth]] was to form a strong Nietzschean Empire with the Drago-Kazov pride forming the ruling dynasty. However, during the last major battle of the war, the Battle of Witchhead, a large Nietzschean fleet (constituting 15% of their total strength at the start of the conflict) suffers heavy losses when they destroy the last [[Space Navy|High Guard]] ships ({{spoiler|with some help from Hunt}}). No longer having a strong position, the Drago-Kazov pride is unable to stay in charge, reducing the unified Nietzscheans into a bunch of squabbling prides who are more concerned with power than creating civilization. Cue 300 years of total chaos.

** The Imperium is notable for it's sheer scale, A million worlds and with a population in the ''quadrillions'', it fights thousands of wars at any given moment, its soldiers number in the trillions, and it has existed for ten thousand years. One man, even the greatest man, is nothing, even the death of millions matters little in the Imperium.

** They are also both interesting in that they see the other as the violent expansionist empire. Though the Tau are also [[The Federation]] made up of many different races including human turncoats while the Imperium wipes out all alien life they find.

* The Third Imperium of Traveller is more like [[The Federation]] with hereditary nobles than an example of this.

** Though the first and second Imperiums may have been (and why the second one fell).