The rule of the Terran Empire by force alone began with Hans Molitor. (Also here.)
So is Hans the Terran Diocletian? Apparently not because, during Hans's reign, Chunderban Desai says:
"'...we too shall have our Diocletian...'"
-A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, p. 274.
So that has not happened yet. (According to Desai.)
Apparently, again according to Desai, Diocletian did make a temporary reconstruction. Flandry had helped Molitor's efforts to restore old institutions (A Stone In Heaven, p. 75) but they were too late.
In any case, Hauksberg thinks that the Empire was won and maintained only by naked power from the start.
These read like conflicting interpretations of past history.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
There were two "phases" before Diocletian rose to power: the Severan dynasty (193-235) and then the agonies of the Third Century Crisis (235-254), a time of chaos during which the Empire nearly went under.
Hans Molitor was an elderly interim Emperor analogous to Septimius Severus. Some sort of older and precarious stability was maintained during the Severan period. It was Chunderban Desai's hope Emperor Hans and his dynasty would help get the Empire thru its anarchic phase.
Ad astra! Sean
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