Talk:House Zhunastu

Links (2019)

1. EXTERNAL LINK: Arlea Committee & 9 Great Houses at CotI

- Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 13:31, 25 August 2019 (EDT)

Arlea Committee

1. House Lentuli - (?)
2. House Ling - (Ling Standard Products)
3. House Shiishuginsa - (Zirunkariish)
4. House Stern ?) - (Sternmetal)
5. House Tukera - (Tukera Lines)
6. House Zhunastu - (Zhunastu Industries)
7. House (?) - (Baldang Arms?)
8. House (?) - (GSbAG)
9. House (?) - (InStarSpec?)

OLD LIST

1. House Aurion ?
2. House Lentuli
3. House Repzinski ?
4. House Tukera
5. House Zhunastu
6. Mystery
7. Mystery
8. Mystery
9. Mystery

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Rob: Potential Sylean Names

Diahkaxon 
Šalänkîxin 
Kadona
Zaaxilip
Dazan
Dohdiv
Karmîš
Manähem 
Lîmîla 
Keaxvis
Šendon

Potential Vilani Names

Alummakhash 
Shala 
Kadaamikhizu 
Unamish 
Magamuur
Daminu

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MWM: Principles and comments.

• There needs to be at least one ‘Solomani’ House.
• Effectively, all Houses are Human.
• There is some structure whereby Minor Houses affiliate with Major Houses as Patrons. These minor houses from time to time switch allegiances, perhaps producing long-term antipathy and acrimony.
• Some Non-human species have their own Minor Houses, and within a region may have some real political power.
• There is a concept: affine, or affine marriage. It is a platonic pledging of loyalties between individuals as representatives of their respective houses. Blood brothers comes to mind. Or Blood Sibs. Thus House Lentuli has an Affinity with Aslan House XXX, which produces some political and economic advantage.
• Repzinski was the name of a bully in my high school. His name is intended to be infamous here.
• We need to accommodate several plot lines.
• House Humboldt and their perfidy.
• House Caranda which gives rise to Norris. Caranda was the First Imperium ship captain who discovered Jump-2 from mysterious verge-of-singularity species somewhere coreward. He also discovered the Jump Potentiator and kept it a family secret. The Annic Nova is equipped with a jump potentiator. I realized that the name Caranda has some similarity to the title Karand, which means heir to the throne/prince, etc.

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Jim: M:0 Campaign, page 46 features one William Shigaka (or House Shigaku; the spelling changes between cites on that page), who is listed as a close friend and advisor of Cleon. Is that all, or is he from one of the Great Houses?

I think any Affinity between House Lentuli and the Aslan would come as a result/requirement/side-effect of the Treaty with the Aslan a few hundred years later. Politics was still a bit too local in the last decade before the Imperium was formed for anyone at Sylea to know the Aslan existed.

Would either the Humbolts or the Carandas have "stayed the Night" in Sylean Space? We know both headed for the spinward frontier *very* early. It would add some tragic depth to the Humbolt story to find their name on the Charter, but I see the Carandas as likely next tier down if they were in Sylean space. Perhaps powerful but not in Cleon's close circle, either some faux pas in that critical period caused them to pull up stakes and head for the frontier, or they chose to "lead the charge" with a charismatic name, leaving behind a proxy in the new Moot knowing they would never return. Or both. It could also work if they were one of the Great Houses, but that adds to a long string of greatness that is already perhaps improbable.

The CotI thread has suggested a few of the other megacorps as potential sources, including Sternmetal LLC. I rather like House Stern as one, even if the name of their company could then arise from a typo on an antiquated QWERTY keyboard...

Notes (2017)

From the Page's description section:

"Note: Given Cleon III's nature, he might well have gotten rid of every extant Zhunastu of his day..."

FarScout275 comments: It's hard to extinguish an entire family line, unless it dies off by itself, through an active campaign of genocide (see the Romanovs). Therefore, I suspect that some remnants of the Zhunastu family survived Cleon III's familial self-genocide, hid for awhile, or at least operated in the background very quietly for awhile, and then began to reconstitute themselves slowly. Thanks.

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Thank you for your edits.

- Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 11:01, 23 April 2017 (EDT)