On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Freelance Traveller
<editor@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
> ...that doesn't hesitate to intervene in a world's governance where it
> perceives a problem. Nor does it hesitate to intervene in non-member
> worlds to achieve a local government it finds more comfortable as a
> client state and eventual member state.
>
> What qualities does such a local government have?

Depends who is making the decision doesn't it? I suspect a certain
amount of toadying up to the Nob who signs the papers is in order.

> What would its general
> policies be? What sort of structure?

I often look at historical precedent here, what did the Romans do? Or
better yet the East Indian Company.

>
> Would the Imperial Scouts actually interdict a world to allow it to
> develop on its own, or would their role change to principally
> intelligence, including evaluation of the potential utility of a local
> society?
>
> What sort of intervention in local wars would such an Imperium engage
> in? Would it prefer balkanized worlds, always at a simmer, so that the
> world could never become a regional dominant, or would it prefer a
> unified world, with a submissive government?

It's all about filthy Lucre, and the power it buys, with lots of
little lords grubbing around working their patch the idea of making it
larger probably seems like a good idea.

--
Evyn