Talk:Kaggushus (world)
Notes (2013)[edit]
- I've been troubled by something ever since Travellers' Digest Issue 11.
- The capital of the Rule of Man was at Hub/Ershur in Massilia sector, Subsector A. Yet in that issue, the subsector is not called Ershur, but instead is named Kerr. Why is that? - M.M.
That was the Rule of Man, this is now. While the subsector was called Ershur over 1,000 years ago, in the early years of the Third Imperium the subsector was renamed. The famous Imperial statesman and arbitrator, Zuan Kerr (-22 to 67), was largely responsible for bringing that subsector into the growing Third Imperium. The subsector had been particularly hard hit by the Long Night and the population had developed an intense hatred of the Solomani and of interstellar governments in general.
The subsector was named after Kerr, in honor of his remarkable achievement of convincing the majority of the worlds in that anti-Imperial subsector to join Cleon's new Imperium at last. Kerr devoted the best years of his life to bringing these worlds into the Imperium. During the more than 50 years that he spent in this subsector (from 3 to 57) he literally lived on each world, and became a local inhabitant.
Kerr was a vocal opponent of Emperor Artemsus' militaristic "pacification growth" concept, first espoused by Artemsus in 60. Kerr had much sympathy in the Moot. However, Kerr died in 67, and over the next ten years, Artemsus was able to sway the Moot, now that the great champion of the "Kerrian" political period was dead. The Pacification Campaigns started in 76, and lasted for some 60 years. Historians consider the pacification period under Artemsus to be one of the darker periods of Imperial history. - Joe D. Fugate Sr.