The 'Fanfic Star Nation', as you referred to it, are
supposed to be arrogant preachers you silly goose. I fucking love the SG1 series, so this 'vengeance against canon' thing is kind of hilarious. What, precisely, do you suggest I do instead by making 'them behave themselves'?
Do you mean the Empire of Wu, which has to almost everyone else here been accepted as a large shiny façade over a ludicrously paranoid and arrogant people who have managed to ruin relations with every other race in the setting save perhaps the Asgard who are instead back in Ida at this point? Who, along with their leader, pissed off the goddamn
Nox? They're kind of assholes, as everyone else up until this point has seemed able to figure out. Do you want me to go find the posts where other posters and I pontificate on the assholery and crippling issues that the Empire of Wu possess?
Or do you mean SG1, which are about as respectful and diplomatic as they've ever been and ever will be? Which is the way they kind of are? Jack has always mouthed off to everyone to Ascended, to his own death, to Goa'uld who have the trigger for weapons capable of blowing the planet and are sometimes trying to do so. His team to a lesser extent does so as well.
As for the imaginary characters I dislike kicking, or utter lack thereof…well…nope. Here, let's try doing what
is happening yes? Not getting satisfaction for nonexistent kicking of imaginary characters I
love. Ah, there we go, reality has thus replaced the falsehood that came before.
Canon itself can often be boiled down to – and then SG1 came across a bunch of jerks. Here's another bunch of jerks.
EDIT: Despite this being a Sunday where I was going to just piss around and write for my quests, here, have some posts!
The Network, I think, has been directly and indirectly responsible for about half a billion civilian deaths at this point.
Causing the Shadow Banking War outright set the Underworld of the Star Wars Galaxy aflame. An underworld that stretched everywhere and had its fingers in almost every aspect of society. Hundreds and hundreds of planets had ridiculous amounts of death happen in the alleyways and ghettos where the law did not tread as gangs tore each other apart.
His fight against the Empire - and his aiding the Rebellion - saw even more worlds than in 'canon' be fought over openly than would have otherwise. Not to mention the amounts of slaves and workers that were worked literally to death trying to build up more super ships and weapons for the Empire.
He took over a hundred worlds from the Goa'uld, that doesn't even cover what other worlds he's taken/colonized that weren't under Goa'uld control. And yet in doing so drove the Goa'uld to burning 20 worlds to deny him.
His attempt to pre-emptively take down the Ori and Wraith has resulted in those same Ascended Beings twisting his Sub Commander Children, and now there is a war covering an entire galaxy at a level of conflict that really is PA instead of SG. That includes everyone in that same galaxy.
But for his Goal?
The Tau'ri - humanity - was declared a Great Race. He's just trying to make that a reality...and has stumbled along the way. He isn't going for 40K style overwhelming Humanity In Control Of All. He just wants them to be able to really stand on their own, and thus far...well. Things are happening of course.
And that's the problem.
You're trying to fit the Empire into a tiny little SG-1 shaped box.
No.
This is an Empire that openly decries the Goa'uld culture, and when capturing a world puts extensive effort to undo generations of cultural conditioning and it was working. They were levering propaganda against them in surprisingly effective measures. You know what that does?
It leads to revolts because the people are being shown that the Goa'uld suck wang and that there is another force out there capable of beating them.
Revolts lead to Goa'uld repressing those revolts.
That, combined with the Emperor focusing on the people themselves - saving them from the Goa'uld and having that be his open public motive - led to that great and wonderful thing = spite. Angry, furious spite. So yeah they started burning worlds, and yeah they now have standing orders for it.
Oh, sure, the Empire would win that fight. Of course they'd overwhelm them at the end of that like you seem to want. But not before too many Goa'uld vessels under now Standing Orders from their Gods burned the worlds below with their absolutely effective planetary bombardment weaponry.
Because you know how many worlds is too many?
One.
And it would be more than one.
Not to mention the fact that the Empire was also busy fighting a bunch of other threats like say Replicators and Wraith and Ori - which doesn't even get into the intense amount of work it takes at all to reverse all the psychological damage that the Goa'uld inflicted on all those under the whip.
So yeah. You are exactly wrong. There now are standing orders for massacring. Because the Empire pushed too hard, and too fast, and was too obvious about its intentions. The Emperor fucked up.
The Empire of Wu is fucked up in plenty of ways.
Guess what!
Shit ain't fixed with a snap of fingers here.
...I guess you missed the part where the Emperor inadvertently taught the Goa'uld the 'benefits' of Scorched Earth Tactics, then.
It's not supposed to excuse them.
The Empire of Wu isn't even close to perfect and I'm not going to portray them as such.
As for the Sub Commanders? Couple of reasons. ROB, Ori, Whimsy, take your pick.
If it truly breaks things for you, I can change it to them bouncing back to 50 Per Cap. They still know droid armies and navies like he learned.
It could be that being stuck in a Cold War with monsters like the Goa'uld for over a century because the enemy loves committing atrocities on their own people to prevent Wu from coming in might have negatively affected them mentally while their Emperor is off fighting a horrifically painful war against his own children in another galaxy entirely.
Or, consider that The Network's various personalities and servants are all touched slightly by their Original Personality i.e. the Commander's when he made them all.
And he watched all the various Stargate Stuffs, from SG-1 to Universe.
And that messing with O'Neill is funny to them, for some odd reason.
....not that I'm saying that every servant and government official is part of The Network through one way or another, of course.