On 5/3/05, John Klein <zarkon at illrepute.org> wrote: > > The issue of whether there may be multiple emperors from the same house in > the same slice of the cycle has yet to be settled. (Although one imagines > that there are multiple people involved in governing the Teckla Republic.) > I believe we've gone round and round a few times on this one; final > determination will have to wait for evidence from the Canon, assuming it > ever gets fired in that direction. Which isn't to say that seeing another > set of arguments for and against wouldn't be entertaining. > How does the "one Emperor per House per Cycle" theory deal with the theoretical maximum length of a House's turn on the Cycle? 17 * 17 * 17 = 4913 years. Do proponents of this theory just assume that the Emperor lives a *long* time? Max -- I die! I mis-remember my friend's telephone number and dial into a hydroelectric dam's power line, electrocuting myself. My roommates mistake my flailing spasms for sign language, coincidentally describing a delicious recipe for fried tungsten with petroleum jelly. They try the recipe. All die! O, the embarassment.