M Fnord Wrote:Quote:Oooh! Do tell. (I'll hold my own tongue about my ideas for now, but they involve a lot of heroics on the part of the SMOFS.)
Well, in the short form a group of Japanese expats wandering off into space and declaring one of their own Emperor is not going to be looked upon favorably by Japan at all. This is not an avenue we want to go down if we still want Japan as a fen-friendly nation.
Noah glared at the visitors to his station. "I don't care if he can trace his lineage back to ÅŒhiru-menomuchi-no-kami! If he calls himself 'Emperor,' or if any of you call him that, then there is absolutely no way that the actual Emperor will ever let him back into Japan! What will his parents think when they learn their son will never see them again?"
Most of them looked at their laps. The one who didn't replied, "He is our leader, and deserves a title of the utmost respect."
"I didn't say that he doesn't deserve respect, just that you can't give him a title that someone else already has by right of succession. Perhaps if you were to call him..." Noah looked at the notes that Yoriko has prepared for him "...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessh%C5%8D_and_Kampaku?"
"That might be acceptable. I will need to speak with the others."
"Of course," Noah nodded. "And someone will need to speak with the Emperor to determine whether he will accept a kampaku who lives in space." Before his visitors could glare at him, he continued, "I can put in a good word with the Prime Minister, and he could speak with the Emperor for you."
"You know the Prime Minister?"
"He's as much a maniakku as we are. He seems to be quite fond of my assistants."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012