Empire
Empire: A group of possibly independent states, duchies, nations, tribes, worlds, systems, or other polities under the Supreme Rule of an Emperor (i.e. a leader with supreme power, not necessarily with the title "Emperor").
- Oddly enough, the Third Imperium is more of a feudal Confederation than an Empire.
Description / Specifications
As a generality, the members of an Empire have the least freedom of any type of a governmental power structure.
The dominant ruler of a state in a Empire is called the Emperor or variants of the name such as Imperator. The dominated (client or vassal) states in an Empire are known by a variety of names including:
- Client states
- Colonies
- Dependent states
- Occupied states (Under military adminstration)
- Puppet states
- Vassal states
Other Imperial (Empire) Terms
Empires are sometimes known as:
- Aberrants
- Administrative Zone
- Admiralty
- Aegis
- Ambit
- Anocracy
- Apparatus
- Apostacy
- Archons
- Arks
- Ascendants
- Avatars
- Autarchy
- Authorities
- Autocracy
- Awoken
- Badlands
- Battlelords
- Benevolence
- Bloc
- Bloodline
- Borderlands
- Breeds
- Brigade
- Brood
- Bureau
- Cabals
- Caretakers
- Celestine
- Church of
- Chthonic
- Circle
- Cleansers
- Coalescence
- Codominiums
- Colony
- Commands
- Commerce Group
- Committee
- Compacts
- Communion
- Contingency
- Control Regimes
- Consensus
- Conclave
- Conservancy
- Convergence
- Combine
- Continuum
- Cora
- Covenant
- Conservators
- Consular
- Corps
- Court
- Cnezat
- Crusade
- Curators
- Curia
- Czarates
- Czardoms
- Defence Corps
- Defence Initiative
- Delverates
- Diaspora
- Directive
- Dissenters
- Doctrine
- Domains
- Dominates
- Dominions
- Dominiums
- Dragoons
- Dwelling
- Dynasty
- Dwellers
- Echelon
- Efflorescence
- Elders
- Eleemosynary
- Elite
- Enclave
- Enforcement
- Enforcement Department
- Entities
- Exaltation
- Exalted March
- Exarchate
- Exiles
- Existance
- Expanse
- Factor
- Faith
- Faithful
- Farseers
- Flottila
- Force
- Forerunners
- Forsaken
- Front
- Frontiers
- Fusion
- Gathering
- Ghosts
- Guardians
- Guild
- Godhead
- Godrealm
- Hand
- Harbingers
- Haven
- Hellions
- Heresies
- Hierarchy
- Hierate
- High Council
- High Guard
- Hive
- Holdings
- Holy Sees
- Houses
- Horde
- Hussars
- Illuminates
- Independents
- Inheritance
- Ingathering
- Inquisition
- Intelligence
- Imperiums
- Insurgency
- Interstellar Kingdoms
- Jihad
- Junta
- Jurisdiction
- Legion
- Liturgy
- Ludites
- Kaganate
- Khanate
- Kindred
- Kingdoms
- Level
- Lineage
- Mandate
- Mankind
- Marches
- Mechanoid
- Menagerie
- Mercenaries
- Metabarons
- Military Authorities
- Monarchies (Absolute)
- Mystics
- Network
- Nexus
- Nomadic Fleets
- Numenera
- Oathsworn
- Occupation Authorities, or the "Occupation"
- Offensive
- Orders
- Orthodoxy
- Outcasts
- Overwatch
- Paladins
- Palatinate
- Pantheon
- Papacy
- Parish
- Patriarchy
- Pax
- Pilgrims
- Planners
- Plenary
- Plexus
- Powers
- Praxis
- Prefecture
- Pride
- Primarchy
- Primes
- Principalities
- Principates
- Prophets
- Provisional Government
- Purity
- Quanta
- Quaganatae
- Quora
- Raiders
- Raj
- Realms
- Reavers
- Reticulation
- Ravagers
- Rebellion
- Reclamation Force
- Refuge
- Regions
- Reich
- Regencies
- Regime
- Regnancy
- Rules, as in the Rule of Man or Second Imperium
- Remnant
- Repatriarchs
- Resistance
- Resurgence
- Rift
- Salish
- Sapience
- Sapients
- Schemata
- Sect
- Sectors
- Seekers
- Seelie
- Sentinels
- Servitors
- Scourge
- Shadows
- Shadowrunners
- Shidhe
- Shogunate
- Singularity
- Sodality
- Solidarity
- Sovereignties
- Splice
- Spy Network
- Spirits
- Star Empire
- Star Fleets
- Star Kingdoms
- Star Nations
- Stars
- Stewardship
- Stratocracy
- Substrate
- Sultanate
- Suns
- Supremacy
- Supreme Powers
- Swarm
- Syndicate
- Synod
- System Lords
- Task Force
- Technomancy
- Territories
- Tetrarchy
- Titans
- Thearchy
- Throne Worlds
- Timekeepers
- Timemasters
- Timocracy
- Trade Commission
- Triarchy
- Triumvirate
- Tribulation
- Tribunal
- Tyranny
- Underground
- Unicortex
- Usurpers
- Vanguard
- Vector
- Vestige
- Void
- Voidborn
- Voivodat
- Way
- Warbands
- Warlords
- Wanderers
- Whole
- Worldships
- Wraiths
Like all governments, sometimes the political terms in a polity's name may be misleading. Governments using this term in their name may actually vary greatly from the standard and accepted definition of the term.
Five Most Common Power Structures
An Empire is one of the five most common power structures found in governance:
- Confederation
- Empire
- Federation or Federal State
- Hegemony
- Unitary State
Please see Government for more information.
History & Background / Dossier
No information yet available.
Empire (Government) Representative Examples
(Imperial) Absolute Monarchies (King or Queen):
- Archduchy of Sol (Member State of Solomani Confederation)
- Black Imperium
- Chanestin Kingdom (Absolute Monarchy)
- Czarate of Delsun (Absolute Monarchy)
- Duchy of Oasis
- Duchy of Pendang (Absolute Monarchy)
- Duchy of Saint Foy (Absolute Monarchy)
- Empire of Solee (Absolute Monarchy)
- Eslyat Magistracy (Absolute Monarchy)
- Grand Duchy of Douglass (Absolute Monarchy)
- Grand Duchy of Marlheim (Absolute Monarchy)
- Grand Duchy of Stoner (Absolute Monarchy)
- Mnemosyne Principality (Absolute Monarchy)
- Regency of Muirimi (Absolute Monarchy)
- Restored Vilani Empire
- Thirz Empire (Absolute Monarchy) (Vargr State)
- Ziru Sirka
(Imperial) Dominions (Dominator or Dominatrix):
- Domain of Alntzar (Client State of the Zhodani Consulate)
- The Dominate (Dominion) (K'kree & Virus State)
- Islaiat Dominate (Dominion) of the Yslai (Yslai State) (Affiliate of Aslan Hierate)
- The Domination (Dominion) of the Domination
- Kafoe Dominate (Dominion)
- Lords of Vision (Dominion)
- Mazaroegh Dominion
- New Sacnoth Dominate (Dominion)
- Reaver Warlords (Dominion)
- Sacnoth Dominate (Dominion) (Former Sword Worlds State anticedant to the Sword Worlds Confederation)
- Second Dominate (Dominion) (Former Sword Worlds State anticedant to the Sword Worlds Confederation)
- Supreme Delverate of the Llyrnians (Dominion) (Vassal of Geonee Confederation)
- Trelyn Domain (Dominion)
- Vugurar Dominion (Vargr State)
- Zydarian Codominium (Dominion)
(Standard) Empires (Emperor):
- Aakhri Empire
- Amderstun Empire
- Ancient Worlds of Iminorrg
- Antares Imperium
- Authority of Joekghr (Empire)
- The Biumvirate (Empire)
- Black Imperium
- Dysprosuk (Empire)
- Empire of Amondiage
- Empire of Gashikan
- Empire of Gushashi
- Empire of Varroerth
- First Empire of Gashikan
- Ghaskoret Empire
- Glorious Empire
- Hub/Ershur Imperium
- Iltharan Empire
- Katanga Empire
- Koenotz Empire
- Korsumug Empire
- Lucan's Imperium
- Maskai Empire
- Meichntid Ibl (Empire)
- Mewey Empire
- Nation of Urukhu (Empire) (Vargr State)
- Nihongi Empire
- Rebin Empire
- Saul Empire
- Sindalian Empire
- The Spartan Empire
- S'raak Empire
- Sydymic Empire
- Third Empire of Gashikan
- Thoengling Empire (Vargr State)
- Ushran Empire
- Worlds of Master Zer (Empire)
- Xuruk Empire or Xuruk'xaar'keer!
- Zelphic Primacy (Empire)
Third Imperium Vassals
- Domains of the Third Imperium
- 1. Domain of Antares (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- 2. Domain of Deneb (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- 3. Domain of Gateway (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- 4. Domain of Ilelish (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- 5. Domain of Sol (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- 6. Domain of Sylea (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- 7. Domain of Vland (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Other Vassals of the Third Imperium
- County of Celepina (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Glisten (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Inar or Inar Duchy (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Lunion (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Mora (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Regina (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Rhylanor (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Sabine or Sabine Duchy (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Sol (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Trelyn (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Trin (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Vincennes or Vincennes Duchy (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Warinir (Vassal of Third Imperium)
- Duchy of Zeng (Vassal of Third Imperium)
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)
- Classic Traveller The Traveller Book
- MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
- Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 185.
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science