Strange Quark on Nostr: nprofile1q…emtwn To be fair, although Star Wars may have popularised the idea of a ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqeknql5qk9dnkr0ggz5fdfsrl6qqq0ecr282jm567v6undp6thk2s5emtwn (nprofile…mtwn) To be fair, although Star Wars may have popularised the idea of a Galactic Empire, it's present in sci-fi of the 1940s-60s like Foundation and Dune.

There are plenty of Classic Traveller supplements that mention Emperor Cleon, namesake of Asimov's last great Emperor of the Galactic Empire, who first appeared in a story in the April 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Earliest one I can lay my hands on is in the Library Data in the back of Annic Nova (1980).