Category: Science Fiction

These ranks have the same sort of legal status that NCOs and Warrant Officers have in the US Army – their commissions are delegated, given by more senior ranks within the Imperial Military. Delegated Commissions are important within the military of a given star system. Depending upon the importance of the system, one rank or…

The event that holds the greatest significance in the recent history of the Empire is the Ston Rebellion and subsequent Interregnum. It may have ended up over 3600 imperial years previously, but there is still significant living memory of them. During the Rebellion and Interregnum, everyone suffered. The population of humans dropped by a factor…

The Common Ranks What our military calls ‘enlisted’ or ‘non-commissioned officers’ are called common ranks in the Empire. The etymology for the three brackets is analogous to our words for ‘private’ ‘corporal’ and ‘sergeant’, so that is the translation. Each of the three brackets has various grades or ranks within it, graduated by color of…

The Imperial military is split into three major combat arms. They supplement and support each other as much as possible, but they are as different as army, navy, and air force. While they have the same rank structure, their jobs are completely different. Planetary Surface Forces are the ground forces. They are the ones who…

Asina was born on the fractal demon dominated planet of Calmena, around Epsilon Indi, in one of the ‘free’ human holds. They are in fact anything but free, having a rigid caste based social structure where you are either a member of the noble classes, or a slave. Asina was ‘rescued’ by the first Earth…

When we meet Joe, he’s a 22 year old community college drop out. He was studying to be an automobile mechanic, but he got lucky in that his aunt Grace was the first person from Earth to become a trained Guardian. The family is mixed race. His Anglo father was a retired Senior Chief in…

In accordance with M’Dorna’s Hypothesis and M’Don’s Equations, Imperial government is kept as small as realistically possible. The government provides military service, criminal justice, arbitration between parties in a dispute, investigative services (fee required in some instances), foreign relations, and that’s about all. The first thing to understand is that there are absolutely no inheritable…

When we meet her at the beginning of The Man From Empire, Grace is 28 years old. She is five foot four, roughly 145 pounds, with medium brown skin, brown eyes and dark brown, almost black shoulder length hair. She’s on the chubby side, not fit. She calls herself a couch potato, from studying for…

Guardian: Originally a natural state (inoperant) human who undertook an exhaustive course of study and physical preparation intended to prepare them to compete with operants. Now generalized to include various level of operant. Modern usage for natural state humans who qualify via the traditional means is First Order Guardian, but almost nobody bothers with the…