Claiming Worlds is a series set in a universe teeming with life. At some point in the past some all knowing entity appears to have decided that seeding all habitable worlds with human life is a fantastic idea. This led to an enormous shortage of space for expansion, when the time of interstellar flight arrived for one of these worlds. But humanity always finds a way to thrive.. Fast-forward to the present: The Empire of Faron is the largest political entity in the known galaxy. Over the last two thousand years of its existence it has added more than three thousand systems to the realm of her majesty, the Empress. But how? You ask? Well, that's where this story begins: World Claimers. What are your options when faced with the want for expansion, but no habitable space? You take someone else's space and when you do it often enough and the colonized are about as advanced as ants compared to you, you turn it into a  sport, a game. The galaxies most watched game: Making unwitting civilizations think that they wanted to join you from the beginning. And from the beginning is often not all that far from the truth....