On 21 May 2016 at 18:15, Richard Aiken wrote:

> Based on the history of Sylea - and the fact that the racial Sylean
> "hillbilly" holdouts were a somewhat-privileged and even celebrated
> minority - the Vilani would have been in fairly bad historical odor as
> the First Imperium was coming into being. So while many features of
> the "new" Imperium were unavoidably similar to the first one
> (particular the dominance of megacorps), this would have probably not
> been consciously acknowledged.

It may not have been acknowledged openly, but Cleon I seems like the sort of guy who
would cheerfully take lessons and methods from where ever he found them if they
were useful.

That said, the early Third Imperium's upper strata was dominated by people of
Solomani culture and decent.