Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20160628193433

It all begins with the emperor. He is supreme ruler of all the Rin's massive amounts of territory yet one man cannot rule all of this land. Thus he has four of his close relatives elected as the Tetrarchs. They rule over a tetarchy. The four main lands of the empire. (5 counting the Home world and core worlds, but that is the emperors domain.)

Now even they have trouble ruling all of that land so they split up each Tetarchy into 40 major provinces each ruled over by a provincial legate. (so 160 in total)

Each province is a group of systems. The legate rules over the province in the name of the emperor. Although this is a much smaller territory the Legate still needs help thus he splits each province into Duchies.

The Duchies are generally star systems. Ruled by a duke. Now they split up the land between wealthy nobles in exchange for loyalty and tribute.

A fief is a semi-independent domain. Generally a planet is a fief But legions also have their own fiefs which make up star systems. Each fief must swear loyalty to the state and pay annual tribute to both the state and the local duke. 