[BANESTORM] Ending slavery in the Evil Empire

[Michael Cule]

Originally Posted by Willy

Actually it is strictly forbidden to release anyone from slavery in the empire. the only person who can is the emperor himself, if asked by the owner. A Ok is very rarely given.

First you have to make it legal that a master can free his own slaves, if he wants to.

Yes, I knew that: I should probably have said explicitly what I understood the state of Imperial Law to be in the first post.

And you can justify a reform of that law on purely economic grounds. It would function as a carrot to the stick of punishment and would bring in some actual tax income on the fees paid to the bureaucracy (as opposed to the outright bribes on the rare occasion the current system is used).

I think that the Emperor would know that changing too fast was a bad idea. He would have some access to the records of how things changed on Earth and since he has enough problems keeping the factions of the Empire together he would want to 'make haste slowly'.

My idea for a campaign is that things get away from him and he finds himself forced to change things faster than he wants to.

As for the weakness of the Church, maybe not so much. They could bring one of the two great fighting orders to the table as well as the magical resources of the Thomasite Order and a large part of the Imperial Bureaucracy. The local 'FBI', the Michaelites, are also technically under the Church.