Nobility

Pierre-Louis Constantin writes:
>About Nobles: People claiming nobility and LOCAL monarchies sounds logical
>to me... Just that the Emperor's list and Imperial Nobility would lose a
>lot of credibility and be dissasembled. This would affect the definition of
>Social Standing, giving it more of a local effect instead of one globalized
>all over the galaxy...  It would make sense for people from planets with
>Feudal governments to become nobles while others would gain a high SS
>simply from their great riches, local rep or other.

In Classic Traveller noble ranks _were_ local planetary ones which I've
always thought made much more sense. In my private system Imperial
barons clock in at SL 24 (with the Emperor a SL 30).



      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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