quasi

In contrast to stars today that would destroy themselves in the process, inside quasi stars, a deadly balance could emerge.

This is the system our Founding Fathers envisioned-- representation by an elite group of quasi corpses who owe us nothing and cling to power, even through rigor mortis.

It results in a kind of truce where neither side wins, and the Romans, for the first time, accept the presence of this quasi-independent Gothic army in the territory of the empire.