Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:14:18 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:06:08 -0400, WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com>
wrote:
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wasn’t there a throwaway line or two about the time that there were (IIRC)
three Emperors in one year and a few of the Counts were short of cash?

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Don't know about the last part but there were definitely 3 emperor
years in the Roman Empire.

This is very confusing, as we appear to be mixing up "the Vorkosigan
Saga" and the Roman Empire. And I don't care which was founded on
what.

Nero was followed by four emperors in the next year (12 months):
Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors>

So, if this is a contest, the Roman Empire wins by 1 Emperor.

I suppose the counts might have gotten lucky in having #1 and or #2
keel over before they had to fork it out...

Of course there were plenty of Emperors "elected" by no one other than
whichever Legion was based in Rome.

They didn't have to be based in Rome. A fair number of Emperors (and
would-be Emperors) were proclaimed to be Emperor by their Legion(s)
and then marched on Rome to expell the current one.

Those were not good times for the Roman Empire. The periods where son
succeeded father for several generations were much better, at least as
far as civil war went.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"