"Board of Trustees on Welcome page undefined

Summary:

Board of Trustees should be better defined on the Welcome page

"Board of Trustees on Welcome page undefined

gisborne 06 Aug 2016 08:41

The only occurrence of the phrase "Board of Trustees" on the welcome page is in the sentence:

"Relations between the Board of Trustees and the Senate are poisonous: the Senate is so intent on restraining Imperial tyranny that it is slow to approve even such interventions as it agrees are necessary"

which makes the identity, purpose, etc of "The Board of Trustees" ill-defined, if intriguing.

Re: "Board of Trustees on Welcome page undefined

Agemegos 07 Aug 2016 09:04

Thanks for catching that.

The Board of Trustees is the Board of Trustees of the Eichberger Foundation, which holds vast assets and garners vast revenues deriving from the monopoly on FTL travel, and which funds the Empire in default of any taxes being levied. The same group of people make up the Imperial Council, which exercises the prerogative powers of the Empire, but the Board and the Council are technically separate bodies with separate origins and independent powers.

I vacillate over whether to revise the two bodies into one, for simplicity.

I'll have a look at the "Welcome" page now, and edit it to relieve the newcomers' perplexity.