Re: Regency Dukedoms

David Johnson [email removed] writes:

>Okay, how influential is Duchess Elane?

Pretty influential, and probably *very* conservative.  She's
the hand-picked successor of Delphine, who seems to have been
the right-wing leader in the Marches since 1014.  Mora was the
industrial hub of the Marches...now it's also the political
hub of the whole Domain.

>> TROJAN REACH:  Duchess Sharik Arcadia of Gazulin
>
>Yes, I remember her now.  Did *TD* mention her rank?  That would give
>some indication of her age.  Again, either she or her descendant ought
>to still be around.  Again, what duchies existed in Troy?  How many are
>now just `duchies-in-exile'?

No, we don't know a lot about her.  As far as I can tell, Troy only had
two duchies for three subsectors: Tobia and Gazulin, Pax Rulin being
under the control of Glisten.  [Although I once ran a high-powered
campaign that put one in Egyrn...my Imperium had picked up a vacant
world there.  They put a duke there because (1) they wanted more worlds
in the area, and (2) his enemies at Court wanted him out of the way.
Fun, but *not* canonical.]

>Good point.  Won't the Duke/Duchess of Vestus be of greater precedence
>than your average duke?

Probably.  I didn't look real close, but Reft may only have two duchies
also, Moibin and Vestus.  Furthermore, the text in TNE suggests that
the Regency has extended its' power out into Old Islands and New Islands
subsectors in the middle of the Great Rift, as seen on the "Black Curtain"
map.  (Mostly, there are supposed to be outlying listening posts and
RQS bases there.)  Classic Traveller players may remember those worlds
from _Trillion Credit Squadron_.  Lots of little human governments of
Terran descent (21st century STL, pre-contact), and substantial fleet
manufacturing capability at about TL12.  I think they were supposed to
have unified in 1106, after TCS.  (Wonder if Dulinor bought part of
his last fleet from them?)

Other interesting notes from TNE:  apparently Trin wasn't the only
world hit by a "leaker", just the most notorious (maybe none of the
others got to a hi-pop world.)  Also, at the beginning of the crisis,
the Regency sent some fleets to Riftspan Reaches to help the Aslan
close and seal the jump-5 route.

Oh, and about the side-bar "Regency Sector Governor" from TNE.  Watch
the dating system.  If they're using New Era dates in notes from
somewhere, that seems to me an indication that there's been contact
and perhaps some level of unification with the Reformation Coalition,
since the RC developed the New Era dates.  So far, this suggests
a reunification in the 1240's, although the worst seems to be over
before then.  (As in the "Eneri Kuniholm" entries.)



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