Description
Book Synopsis
Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by theEmperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of an empire. In the serviceof the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity,to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they reactivate hisrecorded personality whenever a new threat appears. When the crisis is over,they expect he will meekly return tooblivion.
He has otherideas.
The chronicle of Bland revealssecrets of the history of the star-spanning Third Imperium and spans 400 yearsfrom early Imperium (about year 300) through the mid-post Civil War period(about year 700) touching known and unknown events you may have encountered inyour own reading of the Imperium: everyday events, political intrigue, deadlydangers, Arbellatra, Capital, Encyclopediopolis, the Karand''s Palace, and aTigress-class Dreadnought.
If you knowthe Traveller science-fiction role-playing game, then some of this is alreadyfamiliar; if not, no matterthis story introduces the vast human-dominatedinterstellar empire of the far future in ways only the designer and chroniclerof this particular universe can.
