Tuesday 17 October 2023

Other Heavenly Bodies In The Patrician System

The Game Of Empire.

On Imhotep:

"Two moons were wanly aloft."
-CHAPTER ONE, p. 195.

"...the great half-disc of the moon Zoser ghostly above the sea..."
-CHAPTER THREE, p. 236.

"When full, the big moon Zoser rose early and set late; with its lesser companions Kanofer and Rahotep it made lambent the snowpeaks around Mt. Horn."
-CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE, p. 448.

On Daedalus:

"Presently the moon Icarus rose in a confusion of silver which coalesced to a half shield as it climbed."
-CHAPTER TEN, p. 298.

I am trying to locate another passage which makes the obvious point that there are Naval installations on Icarus as well as on Daedalus.

Inner Planets
Liang Ling-tsan
Channing
Daedalus
Imhotep
Archimedes

Outer Planets
Vituvius
Leonardo
Katsuragi no Kami
Sennacherib

Between Imhtep and Archimedes, there is an asteroid belt where Targovi mines for precious metals in order to take advantage of the uncertainty in the minerals industry after the defeated insurrection.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Assuming it was large enough a planet's moon is a logical place for a Naval base.

Ad astra! Sean