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.

Imperial (Empire) Characteristics

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:

Admiralty
Anocracy
Autarchy
Authorities
Autocracy
Bloc
Brood
Cabals
Celestine
Circle
Commands
Committee
Compacts
Codominiums
Contingency
Control Regimes
Consensus
Conclave
Conservancy
Convergence
Combine
Covenant
Consular
Corps
Crusade
Curators
Curia
Czarates
Czardoms
Defence Initiative
Delverates
Domains
Dominates
Dominions
Dominiums
Dynasty
Dwellers
Elders
Enclave
Exaltation
Exalted March
Exarchate
Expanse
Front
Frontiers
Guardians
Harbingers
Haven
Hierarchy
Hierate
High Council
Hive
Holdings
Holy Sees
Houses
Horde
Illuminates
Inquisition
Imperiums
Interstellar Kingdoms
Jihad
Junta
Jurisdiction
Legion
Kaganate
Khanate
Kingdoms
Lineage
Mandate
Military Authorities
Monarchies (Absolute)
Network
Nexus
Nomadic Fleets
Occupation Authorities, or the "Occupation"
Orders
Papacy
Plenary
Powers
Pride
Principalities
Principates
Prophets
Provisional Government
Quanta
Raiders
Raj
Realms
Ravagers
Rebellion
Reclamation Force
Refuge
Regions
Reich
Regencies
Regime
Regnancy
Rules, as in the Rule of Man or Second Imperium
Remnant
Repatriarchs
Resistance
Scourge
Singularity
Sovereignties
Star Kingdoms
Stars
Stratocracy
Substrate
Sultanate
Suns
Supremacy
Supreme Powers
Swarm
System Lords
Territories
Tetrarchy
Thearchy
Timekeepers
Timocracy
Triarchy
Triumvirate
Tribunal
Vanguard
Vestige
Way

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.

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 Oasis (3I)
- Duchy of Oasis (New Era)
- Duchy of Oasis (Long Night)
- Independent Duchy of Oasis (Absolute Monarchy)
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):

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)

Empire (Government) References & Contributors

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)
Classic Traveller The Traveller Book
MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science