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Herr Florian Leickenbloom ([personal profile] a_titanum) wrote2023-10-26 10:06 pm
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[personal profile] artistinexile 2025-01-30 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Careers and lives, then.

They are the most profitable on Rentor, a minor world in the Ascendancy. Deep sea mining and ice fishing, primarily. Occasionally hunting parties in groups of twenty or more of the able-bodied will leave to fish larger game from the more dangerous open ocean.

Rentor is known for its fishing. Rentorians turn only towards deep sea mining when the fishing is not as bountiful; plenty of other worlds have more valuable minerals at less loss of life.

I would not. The Mitth Patriarch did not feel emotional distress when stripping me of rank and honor chains.

Please see attached.

The conversation with D'vana Tendi began to break down when I spoke of her family and made the connection that they would feel shame for her. It was not meant as an insult and I do not believe she took it as one: however, I failed to recognize these tumultuous feelings of emotional distress from her until she shut down entirely.
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[personal profile] artistinexile 2025-02-20 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
No. Rentor is an unimportant world in the larger Chiss Ascendancy, neither of political or cultural significance. Understand that the Chiss Ascendancy is an insular society; it is comprised of Chiss, and Chiss only. Very rarely are members of other species tolerated inside the star systems that comprise the Ascendancy. If they are to petition for asylum, they must be sponsored by a Patriel - a planetary leader of one of the Nine Ruling Families or Forty Great Families.

These are also not fixed numbers: the Ascendancy has been in place for over five thousand years, and the Ruling and Great Families have fluctuated: the Nine were once as few as one and as many as twenty or more. I am not privy to how a family moves up or down in rank, but I believe there is a great deal of arguing, petitioning, currying favors, deal-making, and exchanges of goods and promises.

[this may be text but Thrawn's distaste oozes from every word. He hates having to muddle through the complicated world of Chiss politics. Why, Florian. Why?]

Before you ask, no; the Kivu were not a part of the Nine or the Forty. My blood family was equally small and of no significant standing. They did not 'handle' any industry. My parents were fishers, as were theirs.

Many of these ruling families consist of thousands or tens of thousands of Chiss, living on family estates on many worlds. The Kivu family had four members who lived on an iceberg on Rentor. Four became three when Vurika was adopted out, three became two when I followed. I am almost certain that the line will have died out with my parents.

It is our way of life.

A misstep. I was attempting to find common ground and failed.