Now, THAT’S! How you end a book.

Love use of that particular poem. Adds a nice touch to fledgling empire. The best way to make people loyal to you and your cause is to give them, identity, pride, and perpose.

He erased the boundaries between borders, and embraced every human as precious.

He instilled pride in that common identity, and condemned those that sought selfish goals. That instilled a “them” and an “us”.

He instilled a perpose right from the start, to take the fight to the aliens that destroyed most of there people.

Yet he doesn’t condone xenophobia, and trys to taylor the “them” to those that either attack them, or do things no human with a conscience could stomach.

All and all I’m loving this series. He may have lucked out quite a bit, but a lot if it is his attitude towards his people. They all know he beats himself up over every loss. He feels guilty for not knowing the names of and those losses, and he does anything and one suggests that could improve the lives of his people. I doubt many could have done better.