Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the
Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of an empire. In the service
of 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 his
recorded personality whenever a new threat appears. When the crisis is over,
they expect he will meekly return to
oblivion.
He has other
ideas.
The chronicle of Bland reveals
secrets of the history of the star-spanning Third Imperium and spans 400 years
from early Imperium (about year 300) through the mid-post Civil War period
(about year 700) touching known and unknown events you may have encountered in
your own reading of the Imperium: everyday events, political intrigue, deadly
dangers, Arbellatra, Capital, Encyclopediopolis, the Karand's Palace, and a
Tigress-class Dreadnought.
If you know
the Traveller science-fiction role-playing game, then some of this is already
familiar; if not, no matter—this story introduces the vast human-dominated
interstellar empire of the far future in ways only the designer and chronicler
of this particular universe can.
- ISBN10 1982125071
- ISBN13 9781982125073
- Publish Date 14 December 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English