It’s a very…Roosevelty New Deal type of Golden Age. It’s a Golden Age because the government is constantly funding various infrastructure mega projects across the galaxy, but the mega projects are needed for a reason, too.
I was trying to say that we had previously been given the idea that the Republic was basically static and unchanging for thousands of years after the Reformation, with the only marker of change being the unsuspected and invisible rot spreading within, but in actuality the period of the Glorious Iconic Era was a very short portion of the Republic’s entire existence.
But can we afford a tiddy gap