Emperor Josip died;
the Policy Board split on who should succeed him;
Hans seized power;
civil war began;
the Gospodar of Dennitza in the Taurian Sector declared for Hans;
two years later, Hans still had three rivals;
the Taurian Governor tried to detach his sector from the Empire;
Flandry came to Hans' attention by preventing this secession;
the sector capital was moved from Varrak to Dennitza;
now Dominic Hazeltine says that Dennitza in turn might try to secede.
This period of Technic History is confusing. At the beginning of A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, Flandry describes these events in retrospect. "The Warriors from Nowhere," written much earlier, had described only the attempted Taurian secession but retroactively became a single incident in the Imperial civil war.
For other summaries of the period, see:
The Dennitzan Crisis: Dominic Hazeltine
Transition II
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Interested readers might find my articles "The Imperial Gardener" and "The Widow of Georgios" relevant to discussion of this part of the Technic History.
We know there were still Wang princes in the line of succession, so why should the Policy Board have split over accepting Josip's Heir Presumptive as Emperor? The most senior of these princes should have succeeded without fuss or difficulty. What caused this disastrous split in the Board?
I would have included some mention of how Emperor Hans was a RELUCTANT usurper, who seized the crown only after the legitimate order of succession had dissolved into chaos.
I can see why this part of the Technic History can be confusing. In that it merely reflects how chaotic and confusing real history is!
Sean
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