User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why The Imperials Are Wrong/@comment-172.6.60.43-20130709154014/@comment-9062114-20130709194423

The Empire does nothing to stop them. They give in to all their demands, and fight those who would stand up against them. It's because they're just a rebellion in Skyrim for now, only really Nords know about their cause. Forget actually fighting in it. They didn't defeat the Legion that was my point, the Legion destroy their biggest army in the Great War. Tullius might hint that another Great War is coming, but people just assume it will happen after the civil war, which what the Riften Legate said disproved that. That was a different Empire, the Septim Empire. This Empire we're fighting is the Mede Empire. Even if they were the same Empire, they betrayed the Nords first by signing away their freedom.