Merseia would be devastated by a nearby supernova but the Polesotechnic League installs force screens.
By participating in Supermetals, Vixen becomes wealthy enough to install weather stations.
Starkad will be destroyed when its sun goes nova but the Terran Empire evacuates some Starkadians to Imhotep in the Patrician system.
The Empire also reverses the glaciation of Ramnu.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And the Empire's saving of the intelligent races of Starkad from extinction and reversing Ramnu's glaciation should atone for many sins!
Sean
IMHO, it doesn't work that way. If I harm A and B and B but help C and D, that doesn't mitigate the harm to A and B. If I robbed you of $100 and gave it and another $100 to a charity, I'm still not on the "plus side".
-kh
Kaor, Keith!
A fair point and one I believe is logically correct. BUT, human beings are not always logical! So, if the Empire allowed Shalmu and then Brae to be abused, I agree that was very bad. But, if reforms were made (as we know Emperor Hans strove to do), and things like reversing Ramnu's glaciation were also done, some may start thinking better of the Empire.
Sean
Thanks, Sean. Helping Ramnu and Starkad are good things in and of themselves.
At the same time, if "their" support can't help the Empire nor "their" opposition hurt it, who cares what "they" think? I didn't think the Throne needed a PR agency.
Unless the nobility have some sort of independent power base, the only "them" the late Empire needs to have "think better" is the Imperial Navy....It would be interesting (if unpleasant) if Flandry's Intelligence Service devolved into a secret police, like the Imperial Russian Okhrana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana) or the Preußische Geheimpolizei(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Secret_Police).
-kh
Kaor, Keith!
but you are overlooking how most planets in the Empire were autonomous, running most of their merely local affairs themselves. And the most advanced planets would have pull and clout on Terra itself, was true of Dennitza in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS. I don't think an Okhrana style Intelligence service/secret police would be PRACTICAL on an interstellar scale. You would be asking people to do too implausibly much work.
And we do see mention in THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN of the Throne sending requests to Sector Alpha Crucis and local officials like Chunderban Desai for analyses of the possible results of "...his Majesty making a contemplated tour of the subjugated rebel worlds." So, I do think there was an awareness of the need for good PR.
Sean
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