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- Imperial Vassal Worlds
- "Through the benificence of the Imperial Navy, the low peoples of the cosmos are brought into the enlightened rule of the Mage Princes. Subjects are raised from their grimy little existences to enjoy the splendor and magnificence of serving the Imperium..."
- — Encyclopedia Imperia, 1st Edition
- Imperial Occupation
- "The conditions on the worlds conquered by the Imperium were almost always unspeakable. All resistance was stamped out by armed force, and the populations of locals, be they Dwarves, Kirvans, Fialta, or other "low" races, were put into labor camps to build the weapons that would conquer their brethren. Few survived long in the terrible conditions. Such atrocities should be avoided during the creation of the 2nd Imperium."
- — Encyclopedia Imperia, 2nd Edition
The Episurian Administrative Confederacy was a Vassal State of the Mage Imperium neighboring The Hybern Sector.
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In addition to the military occupation of Kartak, the former core of the Episurian Empire has been broken up into three administrative districts, each of about half a dozen worlds. These are run locally by dwarven rulers, often members of fringe political groups and disgraced clans under the old Empire, but also kept in line by substantial garrisons of Imperial Marines in the so-called Fleet Concessions, large districts on each world used by the Kartak government. The Confederacy is kept intentionally weak, and infighting and rebellion are overlooked so long as the tithes keep coming and no dwarven population dares to attempt to rebuild the Episurian Fleet.
About half of the Episurian worlds are not part of the Confederacy, considered too poor or too far-flung to be worth administering. These, of course, are centers of piracy, but The Mage Imperium appears to believe that policing Episurian space is cheaper than directly conquering and rooting out the renegades and raiders that emerged from the fractured Episurian navy.