We know from Milieu 0 that Imperial Edict 1 was Cleon I's first official edict. It declares that the first day of the year would be held as the Imperial Holiday, to be celebrated throughout the Imperium in honor of the restoration of the Imperium.
And of cource we've known about Imperial Edict 97, the enabling act for the use of Imperial Warrants, since The Kinunir.
But what other edicts would have been among the first batch Cleon I issued? I have a notion that many of them would be boilerplate drawn almost verbatim (with just the appropriate changes) from the Constitution of the Sylean Federation, which in turn drew from the Constitution of the 2nd Imperium, which drew from that of the Terran Confederation, which derived from the United Nations Charter. But of course there'd also be edicts that dealt with concerns unique to the Imperium (like my example below).
I'm not asking you to come up with 95 edicts to fill out all the missing ones between 1 and 97. Indeed, I think it would be useful to leave some gaps unfilled to allow future writers to slip in a few of their own. Nor do I think you need to slap a specific number on any that you come up with. But perhaps a suggestion on how important you think they'd be? Something like a: In the single digits; b: in the early double digits; c: in the middle double digits; d: in the late double digits; e: after Edict #97.
Like this:
Imperial Edict (a) deals with the establishment of the Office of Calendar Compliance.
Hans
And of cource we've known about Imperial Edict 97, the enabling act for the use of Imperial Warrants, since The Kinunir.
But what other edicts would have been among the first batch Cleon I issued? I have a notion that many of them would be boilerplate drawn almost verbatim (with just the appropriate changes) from the Constitution of the Sylean Federation, which in turn drew from the Constitution of the 2nd Imperium, which drew from that of the Terran Confederation, which derived from the United Nations Charter. But of course there'd also be edicts that dealt with concerns unique to the Imperium (like my example below).
I'm not asking you to come up with 95 edicts to fill out all the missing ones between 1 and 97. Indeed, I think it would be useful to leave some gaps unfilled to allow future writers to slip in a few of their own. Nor do I think you need to slap a specific number on any that you come up with. But perhaps a suggestion on how important you think they'd be? Something like a: In the single digits; b: in the early double digits; c: in the middle double digits; d: in the late double digits; e: after Edict #97.
Like this:
Imperial Edict (a) deals with the establishment of the Office of Calendar Compliance.
Hans
