How do YOU view the Imperium?

[trader jim]

after raeding these post..and re-reading most Traveller books...some how i get the feeling...mayby just me....that the TU is the Roman Empire in its later stages...some time its not keeping up with "modern ideas"....still using old ideas....example-----computers.....

but then again, i am a Roman Empire "fanatic"

another example.....Nobility...just change Tital to "Senator"

 

[ElliottWJames]

I've always viewed the Imperium as resembling the Britsh Empire in the 1830-1880 period myself as someone else pointed out earlier.

If you wanted a state that combines the worst of:

b) Nosey Parkers who should mind their own business
e) A stagnant edifice, we are watching the dinosaurs die.
BUT with pretentions of becoming:
c) A semi-Fascist state

I suggest you look no futher than the European Union. I had the misfortune of spending too many years in the "Evil Empire" to want to go back.

 

[Liam Devlin]

Murph asked:"How do you view the Third Imperium?
a) The greatest Empire yet
b) Nosey Parkers who should mind their own business
c) A semi-Fascist state
d) A really really free place for those with ability to rise to the top
e) A stagnant edifice, we are watching the dinosaurs die.
f) Other
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Under other: All of the above, depending on who you are there, or where you ask it.
"B" would be answered by neighboring states, for example. "C" from those who oppose its Imperial law, or have been at the wheel's end of Imperial Justice on a prisonworld. "D" from those who benefitted from the open trade & opportunities avaialble in border regions, like The Rim, reavers Deep, Daibei, Old expanses, Gateway, or the Spinward Marches./Trojan reaches. "E" from inner domains, like Ilelish (nuff said about Dulinor's ideas here).
"F"-Other/ All the above.

Thats the short answer.

In "My View"...
heretically yours,

 

[alanb]

Originally posted by Murph:
How do you view the Third Imperium?

It's a duck.

Alan

 

[Elliot]

I agree with my namesake - the Imperium is like the European Union - an irrelevancy of bureacratic mandarins with (ever more dangerous) pretensions of acheiving some kind of Prussian superstate.

The Emperor and his court, however, is like NATO capable of delivering as and when, but with a bit of deliberation.

 

[kafka47]

Originally posted by Elliot:
I agree with my namesake - the Imperium is like the European Union - an irrelevancy of bureacratic mandarins with (ever more dangerous) pretensions of acheiving some kind of Prussian superstate.

The Emperor and his court, however, is like NATO capable of delivering as and when, but with a bit of deliberation.

The only Superstate that the Imperium resembles is the book by Adliss with the same title. The Imperium has too many frontiers to be confined to the EU. WHich is why I still cling to the fact the Imperium of 1116 is the United States of 1977.

 

[thomryng]

Originally posted by kafka47:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Valerian:


My Imperial Navy and Marines are very much based on the British model, while the Army is more of a Prussian model.

The Scouts are, well, the Scouts: coveralls, Hawai'an shirts, cowboy boots.

It must be quite a sight to see these troops marching off to war...</font>[/QUOTE]Well these are dress uniforms, obviously. At war I imagine there's no substitute for combat armour or a trusty vacc suit.

But the parades on Capital are very... colourful.


thom

 

[Prometheus]

upside down drinking a beer.