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Revision as of 20:32, 12 January 2015
Third Imperium (Polity) Synopsis
The Imperium is also called the Third Imperium.
It was founded in 0 by Cleon Zhunastu from the Sylean Federation in what is now Core Sector. The Imperium grew swiftly during the pacification campaigns and more slowly thereafter until stability was reached in the 600’s, by which time the Imperium had absorbed much of the territory of the First and Second Imperiums.
The Capital of the Third Imperium is at Capital/Core (Core 2118), formerly known as Sylea, and is the location of all of the most important symbols of the Third Imperium:
Third Imperium (Polity) Goals
The Third Imperium is concerned with the following goals of Imperial High Law:
- Emperor & Nobility: The Imperial High Laws should first of all establish the hierarchy of the Nobility with the Emperor, of course, at the peak of the power structure.
- Imperial Military & Scout Service: The Second priority should be the establishment of Imperial military forces (Navy, Marines, Army, and Imperial Interstellar Scout Service) and laws/rules of war/expansion.
- Imperial Taxes & Tribute: Third should be the system of taxes and tribute.
- Imperial Federalism: Most remaining authority could be delegated to Sector Dukes and Subsector Barons.
Third Imperium (Polity) Government
Government Structure:
- Feudal Confederation: The Imperium can be best thought of as a form of feudal confederation. Member worlds of the Imperium agree to pay taxes and obey a few fundamental laws which the Imperium promulgates, known as the High Laws.
- Third Imperium Duties: In return, the Imperium agrees to patrol the space between the worlds, to protect interstellar trade, to encourage travel and commerce, and to arbitrate diplomatic relations between worlds. Beyond this, individual worlds are left to their own devices so long as they acknowledge the power of the Imperium to rule the stars.
Imperial Governmental Institutions
Imperial power is present on member worlds in the form of consulates, bureaucratic offices, and bases. Sometimes, larger enclaves of Imperial power are placed where they can enhance the Emperor’s strength.
Imperial Territory
The Imperium’s territory is divided into sectors, which are in turn divided into subsectors and systems.
Groups of sectors, called domains, have been created above the sector level.
Imperial Executive Power
Executive power for the third Imperium is vested in the Emperor.
Imperial Judicial Power
n/a
Imperial Legislative Power
Legislative power, or deliberative power, for the Third Imperium is vested in the Imperial Moot.
Third Imperium (Polity) History
The end of the Third Imperium was hastened by increasingly dangerous power games, which culminated in a Civil War.
Six Imperial Domains
During the Pacification Campaigns, Emperor Artemsus divided space into six regions, labeled them domains, and appointed an archduke over each of them.
To each archduke, he assigned the continuing pacification of the domain’s many systems and their integration into the Imperium. The domains were:
- Antares (Lishun, Antares, Mendan, Amdukan)
- Gateway (Ley, Glimmerdrift Reaches, Gateway, Crucis Margin)
- llelish (Ilelish, Zarushagar, Reaver’s Deep, Daibei)
- Sol (Dispora, Old Expanses, Solomani Rim, Alpha Crucis)
- Sylea (Core, Fornast, Massilia, Delphi)
- Vland (Corridor, Vland, Gushemege, Dagudashag)
Most of the domains were never totally absorbed into the Imperium. This was a recipe for disaster.
Seventh Domain of Deneb
In 589, during the First Frontier War, a seventh domain was established:
- Deneb (Spinward Marches, Deneb, Trojan Reach, Reft).
The intent was to appoint an archduke to be responsible for their supervision. However, the Civil War broke out before an archduke was appointed.
Following the civil war, the emperors expressed concern about individuals with powers equaling their own, so they moved to lessen the power of the archdukes in the Imperial government. Because of this, no archduke of Deneb was ever appointed. As a result, the domains came to have little practical significance. Each archduke did retain the power to create knights and baronets.
In the years after the Fourth Frontier War, and after the problems it presented from lags in communication, Emperor Strephon felt a strengthened archduke position could enable the Imperium to more quickly respond in defending the realm. Against the protests and opposition of some prominent members of the Moot, Strephon reestablished the domain as a level in the bureaucracy of the Imperial Navy and returned to the Domain the ability to collect taxes. Still later, Strephon gave the archdukes the ability to legislate and enforce the desires of the emperor on the local level.
Divided Imperium & Archduke Norris
One of Strephon’s last acts before his murder was to finally appoint an archduke of the Domain of Deneb:
- Archduke Norris
The Divided Imperium: With the assassination of emperor Strephon and all immediate heirs to the throne in 1116, the resulting turmoil has caused some confusion as to who will succeed Strephon to the throne.
Thus, at the moment, factionalism in the Third Imperium is at an all-time high. Even with the uncertainty of the current moment, the Third Imperium still stands. The archdukes are instituting local stopgap measures until such time as a strong central government can be re-established
Third Imperium (Polity) Additional Historical Data
The Imperium is a series of consecutive galactic empires.
- The First Imperium (or Ziru Sirka) was an empire of the Vilani.
- GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars takes place during the final centuries of the First Imperium.
- The Second Imperium (or Rule of Man) was formed by the Terrans after they had conquered the First. The Rule of Man collapsed due to the weight of the stagnation that it had absorbed from the Ziru Sirka.
- The Third Imperium arose after a period known as The Long Night, when a small federation of planets known as the Sylean Federation re-absorbed the worlds of the previous empires.
- The founding of the Third Imperium (Milieu 0) is the setting for Marc Miller's Traveller.
- The early years of the fledgling Third Imperium (Milieu 200) is the setting for Traveller (5th Edition).
- A well established Third Imperium is the setting for Classic Traveller, Mongoose Traveller, and Traveller20.
- MegaTraveller is set in a period called the Rebellion, where the collapse of the Third Imperium is detailed.
- GURPS Traveller is set in Milieu 1120, an alternate timeline where the Third Imperium did not collapse.
- The Fourth Imperium arises from a group of surviving states that joined a Grand Fleet of All Humaniti to defeat the last remaining faction of the Rebellion.
- Traveller: The New Era is set during a recovery period prior to the rise of Fourth Imperium.
Third Imperium (Polity) Other References
For more inflation, please review the following data entries:
- Domains - List of Domains of the Archdukes
- Emperors of the Third Imperium
- Imperial Moot
- Imperial Nobility
- Sector - Shows all sectors in the Imperium
- Warrant of Restoration
Third Imperium (Polity) Sectors
n/a .