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Just putting this out there in case devs see this while working on 2nd edition:
As the Primex of Absalom Station, Kumara Melacruz is limited to two terms of office. How long each term of office last has never been specified, but we know that as of Dead Suns 1/Pact Worlds in 317 AG, she was halfway through her first term of office, and that by The Devastation Ark in 320 AG, she is now in her second term.
Once upon a time I crunched numbers to try to figure out when/how often the primex elections take place (also taking into consideration that the first primex, Loqua Tem, was elected in the aftermath of the Gap, prior to the Signal in 3 AG, and was still in office in 7 AG).
The only reasonable number I could land on was that the first prime executive election was held in 0 AG, and that each term of office lasts 5 years. (Thus Loqua Tem was elected in 0 AG and held office until 10 AG.) Any other combination either missed the known dates or resulted in a weirdly long... gap between the anarchy that arose at the end of the Gap and the election that solved that existential threat.
Thus, as of 325 AG, when second edition is released, Kumara Melacruz should be in the process of leaving office and Absalom Station should need a new primex!
Abasalom Station is for the humans! Down with Melacruz!
(Checks forum name.)
Oh, never mind, carry on.
(Although, on further consideration, the math still makes my head hurt)
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OK, I've run the numbers with this additional data point and reached a different conclusion: Prime Executives are elected to four-year terms. Elections take place early in the year, on "the fours," and the office is limited to two terms.
So, working backward:
324 AG: By mid-year Melacruz is out of office and providing counsel to the new Primex. We can assume elections are held early in the year; the first Primex took office as a reaction to the end of the Gap, aka Day 1, 0 AG. So if the social catastrophe that was post-Gap Absalom Station began on "January 1st," getting someone in charge by "Spring" makes a lot of sense.
So we can assume that as of A Cosmic Birthday, Melacruz has been out of office for just a few months, and that the election was held within the calendar year: 324 AG.
320 AG: Melacruz is re-elected, placing her in her second term by the time she appears in The Devastation Ark. This checks out, assuming TDA takes place later in the year.
316 AG: Melacruz is elected. Within her first year in office, she survives an assassination attempt, which has already happened when she and the entire setting are first introduced in 317 AG. Checks out.
Screaming backward in time, now:
8 AG: The first Primex, Loqua Tem, leaves office. (Assumed.)
7 AG: Loqua Tem is Primex during the Magefire Assault. This checks out, placing the event toward the end of his second term.
4 AG: Loqua Tem is re-elected.
3 AG: Loqua Tem is in office during the Signal. This checks out.
0 AG: Loqua Tem is elected within a few months of the end of the Gap.
Okay! I'm sorted, this all works. Next Primex election's coming up in early 328 AG, and might actually be democratic for the first time! See you there.
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Something of interest, copied directly from the overview on Cosmic Birthday.
'Kantol’s policies are so popular with Absalom Station’s population that the Syndicsguild doesn’t dare remove her until her term ends, even though she recently proposed an overhaul of the Syndicsguild that would involve abolishing electoral districts in favor of a universal, unrestricted vote for the settlement’s representation slots.'
This indicates that a Primex can, and in fact might regularly (if unpopular), be removed by a vote from the Syndicsguil. So completing 4 year terms may or may not be as regular as we think.
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I imagine the terms would still end when they would have, just with someone else in the slot, so John's math would still work.
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I imagine the terms would still end when they would have, just with someone else in the slot, so John's math would still work.
Aye, that makes sense and would follow for any other reason someone might vacate the Primex seat, such as stepping down or an unexpected ending of life. Honestly the fact I feel so invested in learning the functions of an imaginery political system (as well as how exactly one plays Brutaris), is just a great indicator of the levrl of investment some of us have developed for this setting.