Re: Regency Nobility

David Johnson writes:

>This would seem to me to be a good place for development.  What are the
>nature of Regency naval forces?  Rather than focusing on the details of
>ship design let's concentrate on tactics, strategy and design philosophies.

I'm not going to delve deeply into this pandora's box, just note that
one thing the Regency will need are fast reaction fleets to deal with
a direct attack by a Vampire Fleet.  (That may be how Trin got hit...
a fleet attacked and one got through in the confusion.  Since Trin is
so deep in the Regency, I wonder if it got any other places on the way.)

>BTW, what is the noble hierarchy in the Regency?  Under the Domain there
>were four Sector Dukes under Norris, right?  These still ought to be around.
>I know Norris was sometimes referred to as Sector Duke at Regina but at
>other times it seemed the Duchess of Mora was the chief duke in the
>Spinward Marches.  (Isn't that why Norris's capital is at Mora?)

Deneb is a bit odd.  First the usual lowdown.  Under a domain archduke
were the subsector dukes.  In most sectors, the senior subsector duke
at the sector's seat of government was considered the sector duke, and
had slightly more respect.  Under them came the counts, who ran two
or three world counties, and under them the marquis who ran individual
worlds.  Sometimes frontier positions seem to have been held by lower
ranking nobility than usual, or lay vacant.

We know who the sector dukes in the Regency were in the late 1120s.

SPINWARD MARCHES: Duchess Elane Shankarr Muudashir of Mora
                  Born: 1095.  Succeeded: 1121.
                  Matriarch of Mora.  Probably Marquise of Mora.
                  [MTJ #2, "DIS News Briefs", p.3]
DENEB:  Duke Aleksandr Lagaashinga of Deneb
        (No other info avaiable.  Know that he's sector duke since
         Deneb is clearly identified as sector capital in the UWPs).
        [MTJ #3, "DIS News Briefs", p.97]
TROJAN REACH:  Duchess Sharik Arcadia of Gazulin
               Career marine.  Promoted to sector duke in 1118
               in the wake of the suicide of Duke Alexander Quinn
               of Tobia, after its fall to the Aslan.  Since
               Pax Rulin is administered from Spinward Marches/Glisten,
               she is also probably the *only* duke in Troy.
               [TD #20, "Trojan Reach Library Data", p.29]
               [Pax Rulin info from Adv. 4 _Leviathan_]
REFT:  Irrelevant.  The capital of Reft is at Cyril/Moibin, on
       the Ilelish side of the rift.  The "provincial capital"
       on the Deneb side is at Lintl/Vestus, and really was only
       a glorified subsector capital which had all governmental
       duties for Vestus, Macon, and Usher subsectors (A, B, and
       E).  Macon and Usher don't have central capitals of their
       own.  [TD #20, "Reft Sector Overview"]

Duchess Elane is most likely still in power in 1201, since the
Matriarchs seem to be long lived, if her predecessor is any example.

On the Spinward Marches capital:

For a long time, everyone simply assumed it was Regina, or maybe
Rhylanor.  Part of the reason is because of how large the Duke
of Regina loomed over the area during the 5FW back in the days
of Classic Traveller.  Mora was first identified as sector capital
in _Spinward Marches Campaign_, but not many people noticed,
especially since the supplement was chock full of typos and about
half lifted from the old _Spinward Marches_ and _Citizens of the
Imperium_ supplements (although the Citizens section was so screwed
up by typos as to be worthless).  Since the back story of the sector
says Mora was settled first, in 60, it makes sense that it's sector
capital.  The main reason the domain capital is also at Mora is
that it is near the center of the Regency -- Deneb is too far to
trailing, especially with Corridor closed.  The fact that it was
already a sector capital didn't hurt, either.

As archduke, Norris can only appoint new knights and baronets, but no
peers.  This could cause a problem.  Norris used to have an Imperial
Warrant from Strephon that would have allowed him to create peers
subject to the review of the emperor, but Strephon got "killed"....
Doubtless the Regency has developed some sort of workaround as part
of the First Regent job, for now.


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