Philip Hart writes: >Did this not come up at the time? Anyway, it's good evidence on the >multi-emperor side, Yup. >info than strictly necessary. And I still don't see any clear mechanism >for the emperor dying and his House remaining in power. This seems to be the -only- possible result should an Emperor die before the minimum time expires, and, in fact, the only possible way for a House to reign for the maximum term. But then, we've gone over this a number of times without many people being convinced. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme@(io.com, labcats.org)) |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^-- "Remember the Doom Team code!" says Tom. /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\ "You don't have to die just because some |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\ people think your existence is evil!" '---''(_/--' (_/-'