Walter Amos <amos@sedl.org> writes:
> >
> > Long Live Yang Wen-Li! Down with the blonde brat!!
> > Ming.
>
> Oh, so you'd rather the Empire be ruled by the likes of Braunschweig,
> Littenheim, and Flegel? Great....
>
> You know this brings to mind a comment Rob Fenelon made to me: Given how it's
> presented in the show, despite its "autocracy", under the current regime the
> Empire seems a wholly more congenial place to live than the Alliance. Most of
> the nobles energies are directed at other nobles in the eternal palace
> intrigue to gain prestige at court. There isn't as much time to directly
> harass the commoners. While in the Alliance you probably get beat up by the
And Annerose volunteered for palace duty. :) Strikes me that in the
Empire you're safe if the local nobles have some sense of "nobless oblige".
Otherwise, you'd be better off in the Alliance then one of Flegel's, etc.
peasantry.
> PKC for voting for the wrong candidate in the election! While the Empire may
> have been not altogether congenial in the days of Goldenbaum, it seems that at
> the moment the Alliance is really even worse for basic political oppression
> and general head-thumping.
>
What's the story on Phezzan Land? Do we ever see anything more than
its leader?
Bob H.