Originally posted by stofsk:
Any others? What about events and people who have become legendary to Imperial history?
Stofsk,
The trouble is coming up with events and people that are famous Imperium-wide. I've no doubt there are oodles of regional heros everywhere you look.
Arbellatra would be one.
GT's 'Planetary Survey' for Glisten has her revered in that system much like a secular saint. Her birthday is a holiday and so forth. In DGP's description of the Imperial Palace a time capsule left behind by Arbellatra is mentioned. It was built to open automatically on 001-1000 but the mechanism failed. That failure is guessed at, but no one even suggests opening it because Arbellatra placed it there.
Plankwell could be another. He eventually gets a subsector, District 268, named after him in
TNE. I'd think his 'myth' is a mixed one in Imperial memory however. Sort of bittersweet.
Jaqueline, the empress Plankwell murdered, could very well be another myth. This one wrapped up in doomed 'fin de seicle' motif of sorts.
I've always thought Cleon III should be another, just like Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria.
Oddly enough, we know of few Imperial military hoeros who also didn't take the Throne. After nearly losing the 5th FW, Santanocheev isn't a hero. However, we only hear of Norris after that and not the IN officer who replaced Santanocheev.
The same holds true in the Rim War. The Imperium advanced on Earth in a giant pincer movement along two separate fronts. We know the Solomani Grand Admiral Ivan Wolfe temporarily stalled one Imperial pincer. Wolfe was fighting the second when the first pincer he had thought was beaten arrived to win the battle. We never learn the names of those two Imperial commanders though.
Just my 0.02CrImps.
Have fun,
Bill