el and Academy candidates have the
equivalent of a pre-Empire bachelor's degree; by graduation and
commissioning, an officer has the equivalent of three or four
doctorates, and all ranks are expected to continue their educations.
They are thoroughly tested in all physical and psychological aspects,
then assigned where their individual aptitudes, attitudes, and training
will be most useful. Note that this definitely includes a person's
preferences, part of the Empire's pragmatism: a person does better in a
job @ likes, so it is in the Empire's interest to put @ there. If for
some reason it is necessary to put someone in a job @ doesn't like, @
will be there as briefly as possible.

MINOTAUR, Subsector 2-D:
No. systems: 129 Sector: Hydra
with 3 inhabited planets: 6 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 12
with 1 inhabited planet: 27

MIRACLE-WEED: The Ondrian plant that is the only source of rapid-heal.
Originally wild, it has been intensively cultivated since 2532, when
humans and Irschchans established a colony for that purpose.
Miracle-weed has been grown on other worlds, but does not thrive or
produce usable rapid-heal.

MITHRA, Subsector 6-D:
No. systems: 146 Sector: Scorpio
with 3 inhabited planets: 4 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 12
with 1 inhabited planet: 23

MJOLNIR:
Sector: 5, Pegasus Year:
Subsector: B, Sleipnir Day:
System: Thor Gravity:
Settled/established: 2154 Axial tilt:
By: North Americans, Scandinavians Oxygen:
Satellites: 2 (Gnasher, Grinder) % Water:
Ident code prefix: MJO Continents:
Ruled by: Klaes family
Arms: On a platinum field, a mallet proper, head upward, with a
thong through the handle's end.
General: Stopping point of the Sandeman Eruption, 2542.

MJOLNIR CONFERENCE: (2542) The conference Ranger James Medart called
in a successful attempt to end the Sandeman invasion of Sector Five.
Mjolnir at the time was a Sandeman protectorate; its Baron Klaes
declared it extraterritorial so the two sides could meet on neutral
territory. The war ended due to what Medart liked to call "sweet
reason, backed by five battle fleets"--though to his amusement, the
Sandemans saw the fleets and Imperial weaponry as a temptation ra