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Old 10-16-2011, 10:06 AM   #58
RainOfSteel
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: USA
Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

A large part of the Core sector of the Imperium was, long ago, the Sylean Federation, a nation with well over seven hundred years of history to itself before the founding of the Third Imperium, and then millennia of history prior to that under the First Imperium. It has been the central seat of the Third Imperium for over 1100 years.

The amount of travel, trade, high-level enterprise commerce and industry, communications, ongoing development, and most importantly the issue of the movement and resettlement of large numbers of emigrants moving out of overcrowded High Population worlds as the centuries continued on, has remade many worlds in the area (to one degree or another) in the image of Capital/Core and its sister worlds. Some of these worlds are the personal fiefs of the Emperor who retains control of these worlds as part and parcel of maintaining the status and position of the Imperial Family or of major Imperial Nobles. In any event, while not precisely in lock-step with every Imperial whim, these worlds share general culture and philosophical ideals with each other (they’re known as Sylean Class Worlds). The Sylean Class Worlds in Core sector itself are invariably High Population worlds, and are also highly terraformed Rich worlds (engineered Atmosphere of 6 or 8, and Hydrographics of 5-8). Most are also Industrial (with Atmospheric Engineering or Advanced Recycling to protect against taints).

This string of worlds, the effective center of Sylean/Imperial culture in the Imperium, is called the Cosmopolitan Main (including Capital/Core itself).

[Author’s Note: In order to create the Cosmopolitan Main, it is my intent to alter the UWPs of several Core sector worlds to reflect the huge amount of development and population movement during 1100 years of Imperial history. The average TL of a world on the Cosmopolitan Main is TL-14 (none fall below TL-13). The Cosmopolitan Main itself is the center of high technology, fashion, politics and intrigue, science, and literature/media in the Imperium. If trade is the lifeblood of Imperial financial matters, then the Cosmopolitan Main is the lifeblood of thoughts and ideas in the Imperium (and Capital/Core is the pumping heart that drives it all).]

[Further Note: It has been my intent to do the above alterations for around nine years now and I still haven't gotten around to it. Oops.]
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