: Re: How could a galactic plague motivate a villain to conquer an entire galaxy? A few years before the start of my book series, a galactic plague of a disease called BigPox is going to spread

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No one can tell you what to write, but this is how I might choose to motivate V to play the universal domination game.

Interesting that you chose your villain to originate in one of the least effected areas. Since it is a backwater planet, his youth is spent listening to the tales of travellers and traders and he learns of the worlds beyond. He has a curious turn of mind and seeks knowledge of distant places, developing a contempt for most cultures.

He sees his world as more pure than the others which is why they had so few deaths. Isolation being their salvation does not occur to him. He develops a deep belief that it is his duty to bring such purity of culture to all other planets.

Very few illnesses have a 100% mortality rate. There are usually some individuals with a natural immunity for whom the illness either passes them by completely or they survive. He is such a survivor, which makes him feel chosen. He has been chosen for a reason, which he later decides is to take the place of the fallen rulers and just for good measure, take over the known universe.

Perhaps he was travelling during the plague and saw its devastation and knew that it had but lightly touched him.

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