I have it in me noggin that whatever ye're gang to offer, it's worth less than yer corrupt empire . . . and that's what I'm firing for: all that ye call yours.

The first episode, comprising five books, tells the story of how Owen Deathstalker, reluctant heir to the ancient Deathstalker name and minor historian, came to lead a galactic rebellion against the powerful and corrupt empire in which he lives.

Second, Prince is using Yogi's as a front for his own little corrupt empire.

In North America, Michael Lever and his wife Emily Ascher find themselves the inheritors of a corrupt and decadent financial empire.

Time-travel refugee Thomas Cole is recruited into an interstellar war being waged between burgeoning humanity and the Centaurians, scions of an aging and corrupt empire who rule from a planet orbiting the star Proxima Centauri.

Adding new states, they charged, would reduce the Republic to just another corrupt empire like Britain or Rome.

A powerful, corrupt empire, perhaps?

Later Wong Zo-ping becomes heavenly deity on earth Wong Tai-sin to face off against the corrupt empire.

Here the stench of a decaying and corrupt empire would fade with the distance.

Our hemisphere was colonized and looted by European powers which still control parts of it... "Coming up on history's calendar will be the collapse of the nefarious and corrupt Spanish empire.