Descent of (Wo)Man

Is the actual ancestry of Kapitanin von Stern Hansen in A Call to Insurrection left deliberately ambiguous? Was she actiually the elder daughter of Gustav Anderman, or were the proofs Major Strausman offered as fake as his loyalty to the Empire?

Fox2! wrote:Is the actual ancestry of Kapitanin von Stern Hansen in A Call to Insurrection left deliberately ambiguous? Was she actiually the elder daughter of Gustav Anderman, or were the proofs Major Strausman offered as fake as his loyalty to the Empire?

I believe she had a legitimate right to the crown, and would have been accepted as a member of the family (though probably not the emperor at that point), but her actions proved she could not be trusted, nor had the temperament to lead the empire - seeing that her actions killed thousands of the Empire's loyal subjects, not to mention wasted the empire's resources.

If she didn't have a claim, I believe the new emperor would have simply said so.

Theemile wrote:I believe she had a legitimate right to the crown, and would have been accepted as a member of the family (though probably not the emperor at that point), but her actions proved she could not be trusted, nor had the temperament to lead the empire - seeing that her actions killed thousands of the Empire's loyal subjects, not to mention wasted the empire's resources.

If she didn't have a claim, I believe the new emperor would have simply said so.

Maybe it hadn't been settled at this time, but we know that by Honor's time the Andermani crown had been settled on only passing to sons, not daughters. So she wouldn't have had a claim in later years.

Not that it prevented a daughter from actually acceding to the throne once. Gustav VII declared herself legally a man and took control of the empire, avoiding a civil war.

ThinksMarkedly wrote:
Maybe it hadn't been settled at this time, but we know that by Honor's time the Andermani crown had been settled on only passing to sons, not daughters. So she wouldn't have had a claim in later years.

Not that it prevented a daughter from actually acceding to the throne once. Gustav VII declared herself legally a man and took control of the empire, avoiding a civil war.

It's mentioned in the text, and again during Andrew's interview with Hanson, that the Basic Law of the Anderman Empire, modeled after the Basic Law of the Prussian German Empire, only allowed males to inherit the throne. Even if she was the daughter of Gustav I, she could not inherit his throne.

Duh (refers to my use of Prussian Empire, vs German Empire. Although we know the the German Empire (so-called) was actually the Prussian Empire. As shown in the anti-Catholic Kulturekampf.).