@doctorsex @EssentialUtinsil @sickburnbro And this is a major point.

Always said that comfort and relative peace + wealth are a terribad combo in creating a warrior caste.
As long as people will feel that they have more to lose than to gain by opposing the system, most people will quietly sit it out and go along, trying to fly under the radars.
But we can safely assume that the enemy wants suffering and despondency, not the uprising of a newborn warrior caste against them.