For you readers who want more information, every Friday additional background will be coming here in the Crystal Roads Blog. Enjoy:
Current time is 1000 yrs after fall of League of humanity. Constantine Jackson, one of the former Quadrant Lords of the League was a founder. He and Evie Jones were the rulers of Green Gardens, a planet relatively close to Earth. They had three sons fight in the losing battle to save earth. Only Dave survived. He helped found the empire and became the second emperor.
Two hundred years ago the QABAL, the group which brought about the fall of the League in their attempt to take control, invaded the Empire, overrunning most of it. Charles Roland became emperor and reestablished the Empire, but with a smaller group of planets and a much curtailed set of civil liberties. He was the only heir to take the Emergency Test and survive much less pass.
At its height before the QABAL invasion, the Empire consisted of approximately 2000 star clusters divided into sectors of about 100 each. It has been gradually contracting for several hundred years before the invasion. The sectors were each presided over by a Lord and a sector parliament for civil government. The planets each select a representative to the sector council which select the Sector Lord. The Sector Admiral is chosen by the emperor. The powers of the emperor are limited to external matters, that is diplomacy, trade and defense. Commerce between the sectors and maintaining peace within the Empire fall into that responsibility. All other internal matters are left to the individual sectors and planets. Funding the Empire is a one percent tax on Gross Planetary Product.
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