On 21/9/25 03:04, David Johnson - piperfan at zarthani.net (via tml
list) wrote:
> <snip good gubbins>
>
> I think it's pretty straightforward to look around the world today --
> and in geopolitical history since the Treaty of Westphalia -- to find
> plenty of situations where a /de facto/ political entity does not have
> /de jure/ recognition from another polity, especially one which claims
> sovereignty over the unrecognized polity's territory.
>
> The Imperium is not willing to recognize such an entity because, from
> its perspective, there can only be /one/ multiworld polity in Imperial
> space -- and the Imperium is it.
>
> The interesting thing, from a gaming perspective, would be whether or
> not the EPP is recognized by any extra-Imperial polities.
>
> Happy Travelling,
>
> David
> --
> ". . . you don't appreciate how essential a social lubricant hypocrisy
> is." - Dominic Flandry (Poul Anderson), /The Rebel Worlds/
>

David, Jeff,

Would it be more ... interesting ... if, given some form of recognition
by other sovereign states, the EPP is either close to an international
border, or outright (part of) an exclave, like the Five Sisters
subsector?  How would the ... interestingness ... vary with the state
doing the recognising?  I suspect a coreward-spinward EPP recognised by
the Zhodani Consulate would be a completely different situation to a
trailing EPP recognised by the Hive Federation, and different again to a
rimward EPP recognised by the Solomani Confederation, and different yet
again from a coreward EPP recognised by the Julian League.  Would such a
de-facto multi-world polity be even _tolerated_ by the 3I if it, say,
straddled the Corridor/Vland bridge?

Alex