a desk;
a communicator;
a worn horse-hide couch;
a few straight-back chairs;
a big pneumatic (see combox, here);
a Germanian dolchzahn rug;
two pictures of his late wife;
one of a blond young man;
a model of a corvette, his first command.
The currently transparent waist-height turret roof shows roofs, steeples, gardens, pools, outer walls and rafts on the ocean at night.
Sometimes in past Terrestrial history, a powerful king has styled himself "King of Kings." "High Emperor" must be the highest possible title. Into this august presence, Dominic Flandry is ushered.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It made sense for Terran sovereigns to be called "High Emperor." Compared to past emperors and empires of Terrestrial history, even the greatest, the Terran Empire was incomparably vaster and more powerful than all its predecessors.
Since I believe in what Poul Anderson and Dominic Flandry said about the need for a government, whatever form it takes, to be LEGITIMATE, I have a lingering regret that Hans Molitor was a usurper, rather than a member of the Wang Dynasty and Josip's heir. But I know Hans was an able and well meaning man who only reluctantly seized the throne.
Sean
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