Lit The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion

I'm unsure how likely that is. The X-wing novels and the Atlas seem to indicate that the Rebel headquarters was mobile, housed inside Home One and other important cruisers. This fits that other statement pretty well, I think.

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[b]McEwok[/b]: [i][blockquote]They're not sovereign, but they're the suffects of the delegates of the sovereign people. And with that in mind, my memory of DESB is that the Moffs didn't ask the advisors to form part of the electoral college; they insisted that if people were electing a new Emperor in the Senate building, they felt they had a right to attend - and they got their way...
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They did ask to be included, yes, but the advisors refused them proportional voting--suggesting that they were the ones with the authority to grant the conditions of the election. Further, the advisors were to sit as a "legislative body" to approve the decisions of the new emperor. In other words, they are holding the position formerly held by the Senate--not the mofference.

[i][blockquote]* The Emperor's/Imperial Ruling Council/Circle - this is a horrible mess, but it's perhaps easiest to think of it as one body with a number of names, as there's no clear evidence for factions: the names "Cabal" and "Emperor's Ruling Circle" are associated with the group - perhaps a majority - who followed Ars Dangor after Endor, and who also - still led by Dangor - were behind the reconquest of Coruscant afer Bilbringi. I'm curious what canon Jello has to show they backed Thrawn, too, though - beyond the new references to the D'Astas, who're part of the Council through this period, supporting him... [/i][/blockquote]

It's DESB--the "squabbling ministers" put aside their differences and put Thrawn in charge as a figurehead.

As for the names, I do think of it as one body--sort of: the IRC being the legitimate regency council prior to Endor, and the ERC consisting of those plus new powerbrokers in an attempt to outrank Pestage's claim to the throne (hence their name change, to more explicitly indicate they are to hold regency).

[i][blockquote]However, after Isard's coup, the Council survived as a functional quorum: Abel and the Crimson Empire backstory establish that the Imperial Ruling Council continued, with Feena D'Asta (or rather her Black Sun clone) deputizing for her father from before Dark Empire, Sarcev Quest letting Pestage go and eventually steering the group, and Carnor Jax appointed as Supreme Commander after Thrawn; heck, Nefti and Sa-Di were apointed to the group by Palpatine, which shows it remained in formal existence right through Dark Empire...[/i][/blockquote]

This is a problem though--the IRC/ERC consists mostly of advisors with a few powerbrokers, and the presense of Quest is noted as a new sort of thing with darksiders entering the upper echelons.

But Jax's IIRC seems to be a fundamentally different group--a batch of conspirators and the like, hardly the Emperor's favorites.

[i][blockquote]Is the idea that the Remnant was entirely inside the Alignment explicit? [/i][/blockquote]

The eight sector Remnant? Yes, it's shown in a map. Before Pelly got his butt kicked, though, it was much larger.

re: Yaga Minor and Serenno though, you raise good points.

[i][blockquote]My real concern is more that placing Yaga Minor inside Pentastar Alignment space (if that's what's been done) might create a series of linked continuity issues: does that fit with w

 

Brett:

Noteworthy, also, is that we were completely right all along about there being an Empire proper that continued to function outside the Deep Core following Palpatine's last gasp...

Except "true Empire" is in quotes, and the conspirators of the IIRC really are just the last credible gasp of the Imperial state.

McEwok:

So is Kaine's border close enough to Yaga Minor/Ord Trasi to fudge the issue?

Sadly, no.

But Pelly's an idiot. His one major shipyard comment is equivalent to a single SSD bankrupting the Empire. Ignore him, and all works just fine.

Nick:

I think they also moved up the date of Anaxes joining the New Republic. It occurs in 8 ABY, the same year Kuat and the majority of major Core worlds all become part of the New Republic. It is also interesting to note that the commander of Anaxes, Osted Wermis, chose to support the NR when Zsinj was finally defeated. Of course, Anaxes value's it's role as "Defender of the Core", so it isn't that suprising that the world always joins the dominant government.

Moved up? CatCW didn't really give it any firm chronology at all, and it makes sense Anaxes would move on with Wukkar, Kuat, etc.

However, it is tremendously surprising, given Anaxes' role. I suppose Wermis thought to sacrifice his honor for the sake of protecting the rest of the Core--yet he could have done much better simply sitting on the Perlemian like that. I suppose dealing with counterrevolutionaries was worth it to avoid further damage, as with the Rebel brutality on Coruscant and Brentaal.

Per the Atlas, Pellaeon thought that the idea was "mad" and said so, though he eventually acquiesced in the hope that a few Imperial victories would convince the Moffs so seek peace with the NR rather than continue the war.

He is more of a coward than I imagined.

For me, the most interesting new information is that Pellaeon didn't want to attack the New Republic. And it is yet another example of why all Moffs should probably be dropped out the nearest airlock.

Typical Rebel fascism--murdering people because their opinions are unsatisfactory. Remind me how long it was before your movement allowed the democratic election of loyalists to public office? O how Princess Leia complained!

myron:

As a side note, I just caught the implication in the title of Borsk Fey'lya's book...

Indeed. That amused me so.

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There, caught up. Now to read the endnotes...

 

Heh, just read both endnotes. Far from being upset with the stereotyping, I think it works quite well.

I also appreciate the lengths taken to keep the WEG conception of the galaxy in mind.