Imperial Moot

[kilemall]

Cleon Industries became the Third Imperium. Cleon Industries shareholders can call themselves by whatever noble rank they like but the fact remains that as shareholders they get the final say on who leads the company.

What Lucan did, after 1116 years, was revert Cleon Industries to family (his) ownership and strip the shareholders of their shares and rights. The temporary suspension of the Moot for a year is mentioned, what is not mentioned that I can find is that the Moot returned after the hiatus. We know that the "shadow Moot" was instrumental in supporting Margaret, and yet ignored the "real" Strephon.

Having the 3I be CHOAM at its core would be an interesting twist, and certainly fits with the trading confederation theme.

 

[Condottiere]

Shareholder value.

Initiate a hostile takeover, and become Chief Execution Officer, and Chairman of the Lords.

 

[Quint]

There's a huge raft of investigative committees and oversight boards appointed by the Emperor, acting as his proxies in various ways.

I think this gets overlooked a fair amount in discussions of how the Imperium works. There's also the concepts of Minister Extraordinary and Ambassador Plenipotentiary that are brought up in GURPS Traveller (I think it was Far Trader but I can't recall at the moment) that have some value also.'

D.