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DonM

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I'm looking for obscure references to the Imperial Government... Any edition, any version.

I'm trying to distill a sense of order, and honestly, I don't have Hans to ask...

:(

The core definition I'm working with is from Marc and Frank's Different Worlds article, "The Imperium"... and I'm wanting to see how things stray and go off the rails from there.
 
The three main sources are: the aforementioned Different Worlds article, and the "Traveller's Guide to the Universe" chapter of The Traveller Book, and the Introduction to The Traveller Adventure.

If there's an essay I missed that isn't a riff off of one of those sources...

(and that Different Worlds article has appeared in several places...)
 
Off the top of my head:

(Original Spinward Marches still considered canon?) There are brief mentions of Imperial ministries

Ministry of conservation and Minisrty of colonisation

Introduction to, LBB4 and LBB5 second paragraph in each describes the Imperium.
Library data on page 2 of S3 Spinward Marches describes the Imperium

I could quote stuff from the early adventures, but I think they have been overwritten by later material.

Libraray Data nobles essay.
 
As I recall, GT:Nobles has some extensive descriptions of Imperial Ministries and Offices.

EDIT: Also, T4: Milieu 0 had a number of descriptions of the functions of various offices in the Imperial government at the time of its founding.
 
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DonM said:
The three main sources are: the aforementioned Different Worlds article, and the "Traveller's Guide to the Universe" chapter of The Traveller Book, and the Introduction to The Traveller Adventure.

If there's an essay I missed that isn't a riff off of one of those sources...

(and that Different Worlds article has appeared in several places...)
Click to expand...

There is the JTAS article on law in the 3I, which specifies a bunch about the government.
 
mike wightman said:
Off the top of my head:

(Original Spinward Marches still considered canon?) There are brief mentions of Imperial ministries

Ministry of conservation and Minisrty of colonisation

Introduction to, LBB4 and LBB5 second paragraph in each describes the Imperium.
Library data on page 2 of S3 Spinward Marches describes the Imperium

I could quote stuff from the early adventures, but I think they have been overwritten by later material.

Libraray Data nobles essay.
Click to expand...

The Ministries info I already have, and the library data is subsumed in the GT Nobles stuff, which is modified by Imperiallines #7.
 
Somebody pointed me to this awhile ago when I asked a similar question - here is what I dumped into Onenote...

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Imperial Bureaucracy (v1.1, 18 Jan 02)
"Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement." - Albert Einstein

Named Organizations:
Imperial Family/Household (various) [not technically part of Imperial bureaucracy]
Office of the Emperor (Supp 11, p. 15; Dragon #87, p. 76)
Minister of Protocol (Surv Marg, p. 27)
Chancellor
Office of Personal Transportation (Trav Adv, p. 00)
Imperial Reservations (Supp 3, p.2)
Ancients Foundation (with IISS) (Adv 4, p. 41)

Nobility (various)
Moot/Peerage (various)
High Moot (IE, p. 32)
seneschal (Supp 11, p. 18)

Imperial Regency for Intelligence and Security (various) [may be apochryphal]
Ministry of Colonization (various)
Ministry of Commerce (various)
Trading Standards Bureau (Adv 4, p. 10)
Imperial Treasury (GT:FT, pp. 5-9; GT:RoF, p. 56)
Office of the Mint (Ch #29, p. 22) monetary board (GT:FT, p. 7)
Shipping Commission (GT:FT, p. 74)
Starport Authority (JTAS #19, pp. 37-42; GT:Starports)
Ministry of Conservation (Adv 1, p. 4; Supp 3, p. 32)

Ministry of Defense (Supp 11, p. 15)
Imperial High Command (Supp 11, p. 21; JTAS #6, p. 6; GT:RoF, pp. 58-59)
Admiralty/Naval Office (Supp 9, p. 5; Ch #31, pp. 32-33) / Department of the Navy (Adv 0, p. 15
[Imperial Marine Corps?]

Imperial Army (Book 6, p. 4) [Army Office?]
Imperial Artillery (Adv 13, p. 6)
Imperial Army Intelligence (Adv 13, p. 8)
Imperial Military Resource Board (JTAS #8, p. 6)

Ministry of Information and Communication (Ch #44, p. 35; Surv Marg, p. 33)
Imperial Interstellar Scout Service [?] (various)
Covert Survey Bureau (Adv 6, p. 11)
Censor Bureau (Surv Marg, p. 29)
Imperial Archives [?] (Adv 10, p. 6)

Ministry of Justice (various)
Imperial Prisons (Supp 3, p. 2)
Exile Camps (Supp 3, p. 2)
"imperial police" (Supp 6, p. 25)

Ministry of State (Supp 6, p. 14)
Policy Board (Beltstrike, "Bowman System Reference Book," p. 8)
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary (Surv Marg, pp. 28, 31; GT:FT, p. 73
Embassies Ambassador/Legate (GT:FT, pp. 73-74)
Commercial Attache (GT:FT, p. 74)
Military Attache (Book 4, p. 9)
Naval Attache (Book 5, p. 9)
Charge d'Affairs (GT:RoF, p. 7)
Consulates (Supp 11, p. 6; Trav Adv, p. 97)
Consul (GT:FT, p. 74)

Visas, Pensions, and Veterans Affairs (Trav Adv, p. 97)
Citizenship, Protection, and Welfare (Trav Adv, p. 97)
Shipping and Merchant Affairs (Trav Adv, p. 97)

Imperial Diplomatic Corps/Foreign Service (Supp 4, p. 5, 24; GT:FT, pp. 73-74, 81)
"Imperial secret service" / "Intelligence Agency" / "Imperial Intelligence" (Supp 6, p. 36; Supp 11, p. 15; DA 3b, pp. 14-18)

Governors (Adv 11, pp. 52-53)

Ministry of Technology (Ch #43, p. 24)

Research Stations Imperial University (JTAS #16, p. 16)

Imperial University of Regina (Adv 6, p. 32)
Imperial Academy of Science and Medicine (JTAS #22, pp. 18-23)
Imperial Science Union (ibid.)

Named Laws ("High Laws," IE, p. 42),
Regulations, and Documents: "Imperial appointments" (Adv 1, p. 40)
Imperial Charter (DA 3b, p. 12, 17)
"home rule provisions" (DA 3b, p. 12, 17)
Imperial charter (Supp 8, p. 40; Supp 11, pp. 14-15)
Imperial Code of Military Justice (ICMJ, JTAS #10, p. 31)
Imperial Edict 97 (Adv 1, p. 40; Supp 8, p. 32)
Imperial Freight Regulations (Ch #31, p. 21)
Imperial Navigation Act of 103 (Adv 13, p. 46, et al.) / "interstellar assistance laws" (DA 5a, p. 8)
Imperial Safety Regulations (JTAS #5, p. 31; DA 4a, p. 7)
letters of enfoeffment (Supp 11, pp. 35-37)
letters patent (patent of nobility) (Supp 11, p. 34)
Official Secrets Act (JTAS #4, p. 13; GT:RoF, p. 17)/ "Imperial secrets laws" (Adv 13, p. 11)
salvage laws (JTAS #1, p. 30)
suppression orders (Supp 11, p. 15)
Warrant of Restoration (M:0, pp. 83-84)

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