'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

[jason taylor]

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While it's power is in Reaver's Deep, the Principality of Caledonia has trading posts and (negotiated) extraterritorial merchant enclaves in many parts of Known Space. Many of these places try to maintain Caledonian culture in miniature.
According to the laws, when a knighthood or ennoblement is given, it must be confirmed by the house of lords either face to face at Selkirk, or by an appointed deputy of the house of lords. In practice that means that in outposts the majority of the Caledonian aristocracy is unconfirmed. In such places confirmations add to Social Regard.

Hereditary colonel: a defunct title descended from the Blackwatch Marine Division of the Terran Confederation. It requires descent from a colonel of one of the regiments of said division. It is not a title used in formal usage, but claims to a colonelcy are made by several noble houses and are the subject of genial, or not-so-genial dispute.