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Paper 50

The Planetary Princes

Secondary Lanonandek

50:0.1While be­long­ing to the or­der of La­non­an­dek Sons, the Plan­e­tary Princes are so spe­cial­ized in ser­vice that they are com­monly re­garded as a dis­tinct group. Af­ter their Mel­chiz­e­dek cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as sec­ondary La­non­an­deks, these lo­cal uni­verse Sons are as­signed to the re­serves of their or­der on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters. From here they are as­signed to var­i­ous du­ties by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and even­tu­ally com­mis­sioned as Plan­e­tary Princes and sent forth to rule the evolv­ing in­hab­ited worlds.

50:0.2The sig­nal for a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to act in the mat­ter of as­sign­ing a ruler to a given planet is the re­cep­tion of a re­quest from the Life Car­ri­ers for the dis­patch of an ad­min­is­tra­tive head to func­tion on this planet whereon they have es­tab­lished life and de­vel­oped in­tel­li­gent evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings. All plan­ets which are in­hab­ited by evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal crea­tures have as­signed to them a plan­e­tary ruler of this or­der of son­ship.