Scott Schultz wrote: > > Note that if the Empire were land-rich there ought to have > > been some mention of this in the opening chapters of _FHYA_ > > and perhaps in _Orca_. > >The Empire probably isn't land-rich, in the sense that there's a lot of >unowned land lying around. However, for there to be Imperial Titles to hand >out, there has to be some imperial land for those titles to govern. Why couldn't there be empty titles? When Paul McCartney was knighted he didn't receive a bunch of farmers too, did he? ;) Hello everyone, I'm a newbie here. *waves* /Martin _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail