Maximilian Compton

Lord Maximilian Compton, 1st Lord of Constance GSU GCMT GCSM GCGE OV OM (born Maximilian Charles Louis Rupert Compton,13 March 2640) is the first and current Supreme Chancellor of the Central Galactic Union and was the last reigning Terran Emperor from 2668 to 2675. As such, he is the head of state and head of government of the galaxy-spanning republic which comprises the entire human population as well as the populations of numerous alien races.
Prior to being elected to the office of Chancellor at the new Republic's foundation in 2675, he was the reigning Terran Emperor, chief of state and sovereign of the Terran Empire. He abdicated the throne and titles, and abolished the Empire in 2675.
Prior to his accession to the throne, he was twice Crown Prince of Terra and Duke of Saturn, and had been appointed to the office of Prince Regent of the Empire from March 2667 to June 2668. He joined the National Humanist Imperial Labor Party in 2653, at age thirteen, and became spokesman of the Party youth wing in early 2662. Demonstrating adept negotiation skills and a knack for public speaking, he was accepted into the Party leadership three years later, in an effort by the steering committee to unite the Party and the Monarchy. A power-sharing agreement with Prime Minister Henry Addington led to Maximilian's appointment as Prince Regent, effectively sidelining Emperor Francis Charles from policymaking at home. 
When his father perished in battle in June of 2668, Maximilian ascended the throne and abolished the office of Prime Minister, deciding to rule by decree as an emergency measure. Addington left the Party and went into retirement. In 2670, he suspended Parliament and personally negotiated the creation of a Confederation that would act as a supreme organization to manage human cooperation. In practice, Terran intelligence, military, and policing institutions were given extraterritorial jurisdiction, and much of the Terran Parliament was transferred into the new Galactic Confederal Congress.
His government managed the war effort and the unification process of the human states during most of the Great War. In April of 2675, the Empire and all other human states were abolished and reorganized as a constitutional republic. Maximilian was nominated and elected to be provisional Chancellor of the Republic with dictatorial powers granted to him by the provisional legislature. In January 2676, he was elected Supreme Chancellor by the first Central Galactic Congress, and won re-election in 2682, 2688, and 2694.
Maximilian exercises the enforcement of the law with the full confidence of the legislature and people of the Republic, and participates in the legislature as President of the Congress, a role he holds ex officio as Supreme Chancellor. He has experienced the highest approval ratings of any national leader in the past century.
==Early life==
Maximilian Compton was born on March 13th, 2640 in the Royal Hospital attached to Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Bavaria to Empress Maria Theodora, Princess of Bavaria and Emperor Francis Charles VII. He was christened Maximilian Charles Louis Rupert, of the House of Compton. He was baptized three days later at the Frauenkirche Cathedral and was created by Act of Parliament as Crown Prince of the Empire and Duke of Saturn. He was also, by hereditary right, Prince of Columbia, Prince of Constantinople, Duke of Ganymede, Duke of Bavaria, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon. He was raised in the fast-paced life of the Imperial family, travelling for much of his early childhood. In interviews and books, he would recall that he most loved spending time in his mother's home province of Bavaria, mostly at Neuschwanstein Castle, Hohenschwangau Castle, and Linderhof Palace. 
From ages six to twelve, he was fostered on Von Braun City on Earth's moon, in the court of Lord High Steward Frederick Rycon, Emperor of Luna and then-Prime Minister of the Empire. While living there, he became lifelong friends with Philip Peregrine Rycon, heir to the Lunar titles, and they both were educated by tutor Renard Stipes. Stipes held National Humanist beliefs and engendered in both children a fierce nationalism towards the human race, a mistrust of aliens and communists, and a yearning for scientific knowledge and exploration. He was also familiarized with the militaristic culture of the Terran Empire, and desired a future military career. However, when he returned home to Earth and petitioned his father for an opportunity to attend military school, his desires were rejected. Francis Charles had grown to distrust the radical National Humanist tutors that had handled the Prince's education, and sought to keep Maximilian away from practical power until he determined that his son had become more conservative in his views.
==Politics==
Encouraged by his mother, another devoted National Humanist, Maximilian joined the National Humanist Imperial Labor Party as a registered member of the Youth Corps in April 2653. His father immediately revoked his position of Crown Prince by imperial decree, though he did not remove his other titles. Maximilian's next-eldest sibling, Mary Amelia, was declared Crown Princess. This caused a long-standing rift between his parents, and his mother began living in separate residences with most of the other children. Francis Charles began educating Mary to succeed him, which also caused a rift between the Emperor and the Party, who favored Maximilian in the succession. The Imperial succession crisis would endure for several years.
Maximilian became spokesman of the Youth Corps in February 2658, a year after the party secured the premiership in the general election, and he began a series of highly-publicized speeches encouraging the youth of the Empire to join the Party and vote when they came of age. In 2662, he was made director of the Youth Corps, and whipped up young voters for that year's general election. The election returned a majority for the NHILP, increasing their power in the coalition government. Prince Maximilian joined the paramilitary National Volunteer Force, commonly referred to as the "Greenshirts", and was nominated to the Party Steering Committee by Frederick Rycon, leader of the aristocratic wing of the NHILP and Lord-Secretary of the Imperial Conservative Party in 2665. Maximilian's prestigious royal position, and the vetting by a major Party figure, allowed him unprecedented access to the highest places of power in the Party early in his career.
In September 2665, the Great War broke out and Emperor Francis Charles sought to work together with the National Humanists for the sake of national unity. The Emperor himself chose to lead Imperial forces from the front, commanding a fleet of space battleships as the spearhead of the Imperial campaign against the Soviet Republic. Frederick Rycon as Lord Steward was legally empowered to act in the Emperor's stead as head of state. Maximilian, as Rycon's seeming protégé, was made Director of the NVF. He began to be seen as a future successor to the Party chairmanship, sooner perhaps than later as Prime Minister Addington increasingly came to be seen as an uncharismatic ideologue and an overly cautious military strategist by the Steering Committee, as the Imperial war effort was proceeding slowly. A politburo memorandum recommended Addington's dismissal from the Party chair, and the Steering Committee voted in the affirmative on the motion in late February 2667. Addington refused to resign the Premiership, while the parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Shannon McGrady threatened a motion of no confidence. A party split was imminent, with a general election on the horizon.
A power-sharing agreement was crafted by the Steering Committee. Maximilian would be appointed Prince Regent and rule in the Emperor's stead with control over foreign policy, war policy, and national security. Addington retained the Premiership and would manage much of the welfare state and bureaucracy. Shannon McGrady, as chairwoman of the party politburo and the Party's parliamentary leader, would be selected by the Steering Committee to be the titular Party Leader.
Maximilian was appointed Prince Regent on March 14th, a day after turning 27. Francis Charles, returning from the war front on leave, personally approved the appointment and had Maximilian returned to his former title and role as Crown Prince of the Empire, and granted him a commission as a Colonel in the Terran Imperial Army. In a highly ritualized ceremony, Maximilian traveled Europe and the Americas with his father and was crowned Co-Emperor of Constantinople, America, and Mexico, and Co-King of Jerusalem in each respective title's traditional place of coronation. It was a formal recognition of Maximilian's ascendancy and his return to favor with his father, investing him with the authority to act in his stead. Francis Charles departed in late June to lead the Imperial Space Navy in a renewed offensive.
==Prince Regent==
Maximilian's Regency began on 14 March 2667, and after the ceremonial coronations, his first order of business was to dismiss several of Addington's loyalists in the government and appoint a coalition cabinet of National Humanists and Tories based on merit, effectively sidelining Addington from any real policymaking, and sidelining the Emperor from truly managing. He approved a newly aggressive military campaign, which led to several arduous battles with the Soviets throughout the year. The end result of the campaign, the Battle of Khoz, saw the downfall of the Soviet fleet. A series of smaller offensives harried the fleet further into Soviet space. Maximilian's approval ratings in polls began to climb, and he was seen as a fresh, youthful, and energetic face for the government. His war policy came to be the forefront of his political platform, dismissing or demoting generals and admirals who had been unsuccessful and promoting officers based on merit and accomplishment. National Humanist cultural doctrine was put in place as military policy, with alien enemy combatants to be given no quarter; Party security officers were attached as political commissars to military units starting in the offensive of 2667.
At the same time as the military campaigns, Maximilian enforced party discipline within the NHILP and purged the Party of disloyal and obstructionist members. In mid-2668, he abolished the Steering Committee and established an executive Triumvirate of himself, McGrady and Rycon. He robustly expanded the Party Security Bureau under Frederick William Voss, and worked to have Security Bureau and NVF personnel appointed to positions in the Imperial Strategic Intelligence Agency, the Domestic Security Agency, the Imperial Space Police, and the Imperial Investigation Department, as well as to have members of those agencies recruited into the Party and the PSB. This synchronized with his war policy, as Party commissars were deputized as agents of the ISIA and other agencies to legitimize their enforcement of political discipline on the battlefield.
In domestic policy, Maximilian and the Imperial Parliament promulgated a slew of reforms that dismantled the vestiges of the old financial system and set the Empire on fiat currency, and nationalized much of the Empire's industrial and utility resources. Buoyed by competitive heavy industry and by extensive trade within the ISTO, the Empire's economy strengthened even in the face of war debt. Maximilian's government increased deficit spending to enlarge the military, provide a larger array of benefits for soldiers, and fund an expansion of the Terran welfare state. The economies of the Empire's allied states also strengthened under the new direction, leading to increased popularity of regional and foreign offices of the National Humanist Party. These economic reforms are credited as one of several steps in Maximilian's path towards human unification.
Maximilian's government also pursued land reform and anti-crime laws, policies that synergized during a series of national scandals that revealed an aristocratic conspiracy against the government. This conspiracy, headed by Cassander Marten, promoted treason and worked with alien merchants and organized crime figures to obstruct and profit from the national war effort. The ultimate goal of the conspiracy was a coup d'etat and the ouster of the National Humanist party from government. The conspiracy was foiled, however, by early summer of 2668 and many conspirators were hanged. Marten himself died during an attack on his household that has been determined by an IID investigation to be the terminus of a dispute between factions of the conspirators.
On 11 June 2668, Emperor Francis Charles XII died in battle. Maximilian was notified within hours of the event and succeeded to the throne as Maximilian Charles I. 
== Emperor ==
Declared Emperor by the Parliament on 12 June, Maximilian continued the work of government while planning the formal coronation for later in the summer. Over the course of the next couple of months, his government pursued harder policies against obstructionist and insurrectionist aristocrats. The Marten conspiracy had demonstrated a very real threat of treason, and Maximilian was determined to prevent such assaults on the sovereignty of the Terran state again.
=== Coronation ===
Maximilian was crowned in a grand ceremony on Sunday, 5 August 2668 in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Terra in Brussels, following an extravagant military parade through the streets and in the air. Combining National Humanist and Imperial symbolism, the parade demonstrated the unity of State, Party, and People under one banner. After a cannonade, Maximilian departed the State Palace at 11am by way of a gilded chariot drawn by eight horses, dressed in a fine white silk tunic, embroidered in gold. He was greeted by a crowd of several thousand people, and escorted by a troop of horsemen of the Imperial Horse Guard to the cathedral. He was attended at his chariot by Lieutenant Xander Vox of the Capital Police and Imperial Guard.
Before entering the cathedral, he was vested by Lord High Chamberlain Constantine Romanov in a long blue satin tunic embroidered in a gold floral pattern and trimmed with ermine. He was then dressed in a heavy black velvet mantle trimmed again with gold embroidery and a lining of ermine fur with a short ermine cape, the train of which trailed behind him and was supported by six vassal kings: those of France, Argentina, Malaysia, Hejaz, Morocco, and Senegal. He took his seat at the throne, with assorted nobles and dignitaries taking their places aside him. Lord High Marshal Arthur Windsor handed him the sword Joyeuse, which was belted around his waist, and Lord High Chancellor Joseph Ruanda handed him the globe-capped sceptre. Lord High Steward Frederick Rycon stood by the altar with the Imperial Crown resting on a purple velvet cushion. A choir sang out a hymn in honour of the Emperor, with the heads of major Earth religions each in turn blessing the crown as the Emperor stood at the head of the aisle. Then the Emperor took the coronation oath with his hand resting on the crown, saying to the Lord High Steward:
"I swear to maintain the integrity of the territory of the Empire, to respect and enforce respect for all treaties between the Empire and her allied states. To enforce the Imperial code of equality, liberty, and justice throughout the Empire; to pursue with vigour and ferocity any enemy of the Empire, foreign or domestic; and to govern in the sole interest, happiness and glory of the Terran people,"
He then took the crown and sat it upon his head. The choir again rang out in praise of the Emperor, and he took his seat while the vassal lords and all assembled persons prostrated themselves before His Majesty. In accordance with custom, the Emperor was empowered to make one decree from his coronation throne without any parliamentary oversight or approval, though he must otherwise govern with the consent and advice of the Imperial Parliament. Maximilian made a speech promising the unity of humanity under one nation, the merging of state and party, and decreed the abolition of the office of Prime Minister. The Emperor himself would personally chair all meetings of the cabinet, and would have a direct hand in the government of the Empire. The Emperor, in practice as well as in law, would be the sovereign autocrat of the Empire. He then dismissed the attendees to a great banquet in the city square, and held court in the cathedral for the remainder of the day, hearing and adjudicating disputes and petitions from Imperial subjects. As is traditional, he was promoted jointly to the highest general and admiral ranks in the branches of the Terran Imperial armed forces, having held reserve rank since being appointed Crown Prince.
=== Great War ===
Maximilian's reign, especially in foreign policy, was dominated by the Great War. The push to unify the human nations into one confederation was driven by the needs of the war effort. The various nations needed a coordination of their industrial and military resources, which had been gradually developing as part of the Interstellar Treaty Organization. The Terran Empire dominated strategic decision-making as the most populous and most heavily industrialized of the human empires, with a war strategy built on aggressive expeditionary warfare. It had the most resources to commit towards the war, and as the empire centered on Earth, it held symbolic primacy. However, the Allied Command Council included the heads of state of all the other sovereign human states as well as their military chiefs of staff. They all pressed for greater unity and coordination.
In November 2670, the ISTO was abrogated and replaced with the Treaty of Confederation, forming the Central Galactic Confederation. The formerly sovereign nations were united as member states of a confederacy. All decisions were made by committees of the union parliament, the Confederate Assembly, composed of elected and appointed members from all member nations. The Confederation elected Maximilian as its First Consul and as President of the Assembly, who then chaired all major committee meetings for war, commerce, welfare, public safety, and treasury. These five committees formed the basis of the human victory in the war. While many holders of high office in these committees were Terrans, equal numbers were drawn from the top policy-makers of the other member states. The War Committee was identical to the previous ISTO civilian war council, co-chaired by Maximilian and Philip Rycon, overseeing a joint military command staff. Maximilian's personal aide-de-camp Lt-Gen Céleste Beaumont was an active advisor of the war council as director of strategy, and suggested the famed Beaumont Doctrine as a coherent strategic policy. Much of Maximilian's time was consumed with organizing the war effort, and he spent most of his days at one of several military headquarters: Marienburg castle in Prussia, his undersea redoubt in the Galapagos Islands, the Imperial War Headquarters in Belgium, the Army Headquarters in Berlin, and the Pentagon in the District of Columbia.
Most of the elected members of the Confederate Assembly were National Humanists, and drove international policies of unifying various elements of the member states. Telecommunications, air travel, educational, and military standards were unified; the Trade Act effectively created a new closed monetary and trade system within the Confederation, and served as a predecessor to economic regulations under the Republic. Further, many representatives pushed for unification after the war under a nationalist, human republic. The most radical called for the downfall of the aristocracy, which alienated some of the leadership figures in the member nations. Maximilian was compelled to moderate the competing demands of the Party radicals and the noble lords who forged the alliance in the first place. Ultimately, he did side with the radical cry for a reformation of the confederacy into a meritocratic republic. In keeping with the ceasefire agreements made with the Colonial Liberation Organization in 2665, the roughly 52,000 Crown Counties were allowed to draft their own constitutions in preparation for a wide-ranging devolution; this was extended to select worlds in the other allied states of the Confederation.
Through 2670 to 2675, most of the various members of the FIGN surrendered to the Confederation. The Soviets were completely defeated and disarmed after January 2670, and the rump state formally surrendered. The focus then became oriented on the complete destruction and disarmament of the Free Interstellar Group of Nations. The employment of the Beaumont Doctrine in the Vryst Campaign saw the complete extermination of the Vryst as an independent power, and military strategists became implementing the doctrine in the conquest of the FIGN. The Great War came to a close in February 2675 as the final battle over Liberalis was concluded and the remnant Shrike forces were harried into dissolution. While small guerilla fleets and brigades still operated underground, the rump government of the Shrike Federacy surrendered on February 28th, 2675. Victory was declared, and the war concluded by treaty, on March 1st.
The negotiations between the victorious powers of the Confederation were dedicated to the postwar New Order. The member nations were dissolved on March 30th by a 90% vote in the Confederate Assembly. An exhaustive list of roughly 160,000 worlds were granted independence as member states of the Confederation, mostly conforming to Crown Counties in the Terran Empire, Federal States in the Empire of Orion, and Departments in the Sagittarian Empire. The Assembly was empowered to continue acting as the provisional legislature of the Confederation, despite the radical change in the nature of its membership. The Assembly formed a committee to be a specially-designated Constitutional Convention. Chaired by Maximilian, it included such luminaries as Shannon McGrady, Philip Rycon, George Rothschild, Patrick Xiao, Justine Ingabire, and Ichikawa Misa. The committee drafted the Constitution of the Republic and put it to the floor of the Assembly on April 20th. It was passed unanimously, with provision for the present Assembly to act as an interim Congress until the first formal elections in January 2676.
== Supreme Chancellor ==
Maximilian was nominated by Philip Rycon to be the provisional Chancellor, and was unanimously elected to the position. He was voted Dictatorial power for a period of eight months, with absolute authority to rule by decree and override any local, regional, or interstellar law to bring the nascent Union into order. Unifying the myriad of common law, civil law, and traditional law jurisdictions on populated worlds, colonies, and space habitats was a daunting challenge. It was a difficult period in the Union's history, which saw a huge amount of new legislation and legislative adjustments. The most important acts passed under Maximilian's provisional dictatorship were the Administrative Act, the Legislative Organization Act, and the National Security Act, which organized and centralized the federal administration, fine-tuned the Congress' future structure and internal organization, and organized the military structure.
On 5 January 2676, Maximilian was up for election to his first term as Supreme Chancellor, and his formal dictatorship ended. He won the unopposed election to a six-year term and was inaugurated on January 30th. He chaired the meeting of the first Congress on February 1st. He was voted emergency dictatorial powers for a period of one year, giving him the ability to bypass legal restrictions and rule by decree. This was used very rarely, however, and Maximilian trusted the democratic process to produce effective policy.
His first term as Supreme Chancellor saw sweeping changes in the Galaxy as the new government established its authority in the midst of violent upheaval. The first Congress authorized the creation of several ministries, separating the State Security Department and Galactic Police Department from the Ministry of the Interior and combining them under the Ministry of State Security. The armed forces were consolidated and established in the Defense Authorization Act. The armed forces were demobilized and scaled down for a defensive mission, which was tested in Operation Crassus, which saw a state of emergency declared between 2679 and 2681, a period that also witnessed the Keystone Incident. The 2680s saw a rise in piracy and terrorist violence, and in the wake of the Pirate War, Maximilian was compelled for the third time to rule by decree in a state of emergency in January 2685. Certain space pirate groups were declared terrorists, and were dealt with through military force. He declared the emergency over in 2685, except for the Banat district.
At the same time, Chancellor Maximilian presided over a massive program of public works and welfare. The central government became involved heavily in providing basic services to the member worlds and colonies, devolving to local authorities where necessary. The government instituted a system of economic planning to guide the massive galactic economy towards certain social policies and goals. An overhaul of healthcare services, public utilities, social insurance, and income provision was undertaken between 2676 and 2682 in the first Six Year Plan, providing modern healthcare and basic income guarantees to even the most remote colonial populations. An investigation commissioned by National Security Committee in 2685 revealed deficiencies in social services in certain areas of space, particularly the Banat, which prompted enormous government action to restore order and provide for healthcare, education, and infrastructure. A continued state of emergency was maintained in that district until 2687. Maximilian's public welfare projects also included great works of art and architecture at home. The administrative capital of the Republic, the city of Constance on Earth, saw considerable renovation in new government buildings, monuments, and public squares.
These years saw considerable change in the political structure of the colonies, guided by Maximilian. The Organic Act of 2682, the first piece of legislation he signed after his reelection, enabled planetary governments on colonies to elect their governors, among other aspects of responsible government. For many former imperial colonies, these were the first times they were able to elect their chief magistrates.
Maximilian was, by the end of his second term, an exceptionally popular leader, beloved by the people as the father of the nation and founder of the Republic. The leadership in the Republic owed him a debt of gratitude for raising them to their positions. However, a few grumblings of dissent arose due to the military conflicts in the Occupied Territories, the Banat, and the Outer Colonies between 2679 and 2685. Some questioned Maximilian's "containment" defense policy, his government's high spending on public infrastructure and welfare, and his government's commitment to colonial devolution. Many of these dissenters were of the Terran old nobility, many of whom still held governorships on their old fiefs and desired the power they once held in the feudal era. Maximilian was challenged in the run-up to the 2688 general election by Shannon McGrady, who sharply criticized his handling of the Pirate War and the revolts. In February 2688, Maximilian was reelected by the Congress to a second term by a margin of 86% to 14%.
Maximilian's third and fourth terms have been dominated by the Rim War. In the months following his election in 2688, his government experienced a shakeup; several junior ministers stepped down and his chief deputy, Philip Rycon, resigned his post as Vice Chancellor. In April, the Outer Rim Expeditionary Fleet was ambushed and attacked by forces of the Zaaroft Imperium in the galactic periphery, sparking a punitive expedition. In early 2689, the Minister of Defense was replaced, and Maximilian began to take a greater interest in the conduct of the Rim War.
After his election in 2694, there has been widespread public discourse on his political future, with speculation that he has been sidelined within his own government by an inner circle of advisors and technocrats, in conjunction with Congressional leader Shannon McGrady.
== Personal life ==
Maximilian is the first of six children of the late Emperor Francis Charles and the Dowager Empress. His brothers Geoffrey and Edwin hold or have held positions of authority in the Central Galactic Government, and his sister Mary Victoria is the head of state of the Earth Sphere Commonwealth, a member world of the Central Galactic Union. 
Maximilian is a practicing Catholic, though notably less devout than his father; as Chancellor, his duties have been to maintain the separation between religion and government. In personal politics, he has been a stalwart National Humanist since his youth and has promoted the National Humanist program as the ideology of the State for thirty years. He has been the most critical theorist on National Humanism since the 2550s, and falls into the radical republican, and broad-race schools of thought. His amendments to the NHILP platform serve as the final testament of the National Humanist ideology, and enshrined ethnic, religious, national, and racial equality within the human race. Has elucidated the need for a strong welfare state to provide for the security, health, and prosperity of humanity, what he has referred to as "a nationalist form of socialism". He has been most outspoken on the dangers of alien militancy, and the need for humanity to be strong, united, and without pity for its enemies. His devotion to republicanism led to his renouncing of the Empire and the eventual political dismantling of the Terran monarchy and the other sovereign monarchies of the Interstellar alliance.
His personal interests and hobbies include equestrianism, fencing, hunting, and archery. A lifelong struggle with mild asthma, however, prevented his engagement in most sports and contributed to the interruption in his early intentions on a military career.
== Titles, honors, styles and arms ==
=== Titles and styles ===
* His Imperial Highness Prince Maximilian Charles Louis Rupert of Terra (13 March 2640)
* His Imperial Highness The Crown Prince of the Terran Empire, Duke of Saturn (15 March 2640)
* His Royal Highness The Duke of Saturn (6 April 2654)
* His Royal Excellency The Duke of Saturn PC (14 March 2667)
* His Imperial Highness The Crown Prince (1 May 2667)
* His Imperial and Royal Majesty The Terran Emperor (10 June 2668)
* Mr. Maximilian Compton (30 March 2675)
* His Supreme Excellency Maximilian Compton, Terran Emperor (20 April 2675)
* His Supreme Excellency The Lord of Constance GSU GCMT GCSM GCGE OV OM (4 February 2676)
His full style as Terran Emperor between 10 June 2668 and 30 March 2675 was:
"By the Grace of God and the Will of the People, Maximilian Charles of the House of Compton, First of His Name, Emperor of the Terran Empire. Holy Roman Emperor, Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Emperor of America, Emperor of Jupiter, Emperor of Mexico, King of Cuba, King of Guatemala, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, Duke of New York, Duke of the Mississippi, Duke of the Potomac, Duke of Sulzbach, Duke of Swabia, Duke of Zweibrücken, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Simmern, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Archon of Earth.
=== Honors ===
* Grand Master and Knight Grand Star of the Order of Union and the Republic
* Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Mary of Terra
* Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of St. Michael
* Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Galactic Eagle
* Grand Master and Knight Grand Star of the Order of the Iron Cross
* Master and Member of the Order of Victory
* Master and Member of the Order of Merit
* Master and Knight Commander of the War Merit Order
* Knight of the Golden Spur
* Knight of the Golden Fleece
* Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle
* Knight of the Order of the Garter
* Knight of the Order of the Thistle
* Knight of the Order of St. Patrick
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
* Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the New Moon
* Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit
* Commander of the Legion of Honour
* Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
* Knight of the Order of the Elephant
* Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit
* Knight of the Order of the Seraphim
* Knight of the Order of the Redeemer
* Knight of the Order of St. Olav
* Knight of the Order of St. Matthew
* Knight of the Order of St. Andrew
* Knight of the Order of St. James of the Sword
* Knight of the Constaninian Order of St. George
* Knight of the Order of Ali
* Knight of the Order of Pahlavi
* Knight of the Order of the Nile
* Knight of the Order of the Rue
* Knight of the Order of Solomon
* Knight of the Order of the Crescent
* Knight of the Order of the African Star
* Knight of the Order of the Golden Lion
* Knight of the Order of the Rising Sun
* Knight of the Order of the Brilliant Jade
* Knight of the Order of Michael of Brave
* Knight of the Order of the Star of India
* Knight of the Order of the Southern Cross
* Knight of the Order of the White Elephant
* Knight of the Order of the Immaculate Conception
* Knight of the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation
==== Terran Imperial honors ====
* Privy Counsellor
* Prime Minister
* Marshal of the Terran Empire
* Colonel in Chief of the Emperor's Own 1st Hussars Regiment
* Colonel in Chief of the Emperor's 1st Rifles Regiment
* Lieutenant General of the Terran Imperial Army
* Lieutenant General of the Imperial Terran Air Force
* Vice Admiral of the Terran Imperial Space Navy
* Vice Admiral of the Terran Imperial Naval Forces
==== Foreign honours ====
* Field Marshal of the Royal Army of Orion
* Field Marshal of the Sagittarian Ground Forces
* Commandant-General of the Royal Army of Cygnus
* Field Marshal of the Royal Crux Army
* Marshal of the Norman Army
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Black Swan
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Morning Star
* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bow
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