No; far from fearing this realm of the ship, she had made an empire of it.
"The system has functioned in recent years to make Nemedia a wealthy, stable empire."
But ships alone or land alone will not make an empire.
There are not enough survivals to make an empire.
That's what it takes to make a great empire!
Subjectively, there was more than enough time for him to make an empire that even Doon couldn't break down.
In 1971 he acquired the John Cade stores, thus making a 208 store-strong retail empire which was barely 15-years-old.
We won't make an empire of those twenty-one planets - just a refuge for every man with backbone inall the Galaxy.
He'd never have made a fascist empire on this continent.
He brought together upper and lower Egypt to make an empire.