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Stardate: Month 1, Day 1, 50 BBY, 1:05:00 Location: Rendili, Imperial and Royal Palace Occasion: First meeting of the Imperial and Royal Council in the new year. Source: An excerpt from Count Andrássy's personal diary. The Emperor's daily meetings with the Council started at 5 AM since the beginning of Franz Joseph's reign some 2 standard years earlier, but still, as Count Andrássy looked around in the ornate room which was decorated with the finest gold from Recopia, he found several members of the Council.......lacking. In the back of the room stood the "Enforcers", as the Emperor jokingly called the leadership of the Rendili Armed Forces, albeit "stood" is a generous word, seen as two of the three commanders actually sat on the finely crafted chairs of the room. Radetzky due to his advanced age (with his 64 years, he was the oldest member of the Council), and Tegetthoff due to the fact that his aides had to use radiolocation on his communicator to find him in one of the bars of the spaceport just an hour before the meeting in the midst of a wresting match with a wookie. Apparently, "he was winning", and punched his aides several times when they tried to lead him away to the speeder. The only "Enforcer" standing was the youngest of them, the newly appointed Brumowski, a protege of the Emperor, who saw himself in the young man and loved to reminisce about his (long gone) days as a fighter pilot. Further inwards into the room, next to the fireplace sat Highborn Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky and Lord Szlávy, chatting away about some pointless theater performance they saw the night before with their lovers female companions, a lovely Devaronian and an even lovelier Twi'lek respectively. But the real heavy hitters stood by the great window with a view to the Capitolium, almost right in the door. Arch-Provost Bengila Urlan and Prince Metternich hated each other with every fiber of their being, but the Emperor was able to use this to use this to the betterment of Rendili, making them compete in almost everything. Word is on the streets, Bengila Urlan actually cried from joy when he was able to metaphorically banish Metternich to the Galactic Senate on Coruscant, far from the political elite of Rendili. Metternich, however, was not a man to give up, Andrássy was sure he already made powerful allies on the ecumenopolis. Artists rendition of a meeting between the Emperor and Count Andrássy, sometime in 50 BBY. We didn't need to wait much, as the Emperor soon stormed in with a wide smile on his face loudly greeting everyone in the room as he took his place at the head of the table, inviting the members of the Council to sit down as well. After a round of obligatory reports on the news of the sector, the discussion soon turned to Metternich's impending departure to the Galactic Senate, as the Emperor provided him with the basic indicators to this years intergalactic policies. "The work efficiency of the Senate is crucial for the Republic, and the existence of the Republic is crucial not only for the Core, but for the galaxy as a whole. We need to preserve that at all costs." After loudly agreeing, the Imperial and Royal Council soon dissolved itself, and its members left the room one-by-one, but not before wishing Prince Metternich a great journey to Coruscant. The last to leave was the Emperor himself, with a small, little smile under his mustache. He knew that the future of the Rendili Sector was in steady hands, and that this weird group of misfits will succeed in leading Rendili towards a brighter future in the Galaxy.