" the realms above space require even more extraordinary technologies. Hisarya murmured, What technologies? Wisdom, the entity said in sad cyan. Self-control. Maturity. The survival of what you call bivnik. The true game of empire is not the subjugation of worlds so they might be collected in a little museum of power, but the cultivation of the wisdom to delay gratification. "

― Exurb1a , Geometry for Ocelots