James Catchpole <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

> Secondly, the relationship between the Imperial nobility and the member worlds has always appeared a little hazy to me, but one thing that was repeated over and over was that the TI almost never interfered with individual member worlds, who got to govern themselves as they wished.

Have to admit to similar haziness here.

So what about all those marquises and barons "ruling" (portions of) individual worlds?

If I'm the popularly-elected leader of a high-pop world and the subsector duchess--or her uncle, the Imperial Warrant-brandishing archduke--decides to enfeoff a new marquis for my planet, do I now take direction from the marquis?

Was I supposed to be taking direction from the local count already?

Why is that duchess in charge of my planet anyway? Nobody here voted for her!

And why are there Imperial dreadnoughts in orbit? And where did these Imperial Marines come from? Hey. . . .

Cheers,

David
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