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SECUDIV: The ITMC Security Division. This major specialty division is
responsible for the security of Imperial ships, installations, and
personnel.

SECTORS: The largest subdivisions of the Empire, ruled by dukes.

SELKET, Subsector 6-E:
No. systems: 68 Sector: Scorpio
with 3 inhabited planets: 5 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 11
with 1 inhabited planet: 19

SEPOL: (Of Clan D'gameh) One of the Traiti Circle of Lords, known as
Lord of the Ordeal.

SEPOL, Subsector 21-F:
No. systems: 64 Sector: Traiti
with 3 inhabited planets: 4 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 10
with 1 inhabited planet: 24

SHADOW FLEET: A secret Imperial fleet which, under normal
circumstances, exists only as a cadre. Its existence, however, is a
matter of perpetual rumor, and is the standard explanation for a
military person who drops out of sight for an extended time, especially
if @ reappears at a higher rank. When it is activated for military
emergencies (under another designation, of course), it operates, if
necessary, without regard for the Laws of War; its Fleet Admiral is
subsequently courtmartialled, then given another identity and set up on
a world of @'s choice.

Home port is Shonnar, where its cover mission (and, most of the time,
real one) is to interdict that world from contact.

SHAMASH, Subsector 1-F:
No. systems: 51 Sector: Orion
with 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 10
with 1 inhabited planet: 15

SHAMU, Subsector 14-F:
No. systems: 133 Sector: Phoenix
with 3 inhabited planets: 1 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 9
with 1 inhabited planet: 22

SHAPERS: The genetic engineers, led by Sandoval "Sandy" Cassell, who
created the Sandeman race and much of its culture. They were
overthrown and killed by their creations in 2316.

SHIP CLASSES, CIVILIAN: Civilian ships are so varied it is impossible
to summarize them, except to say that they vary from hundred-meter
needles (the smallest size able to carry hyperdrive engines) to
five-hundred-meter spheres (the largest able to land in near-standard
gravity fields).

SHIP CLASSES, ITN: In order of size, Imperial Navy ships are:

Battle Cruisers (IBCs), equatorial diameter 1000 meters, mass 8 x 10 to
the eighth tons, crew 20