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  • My bet’s on Liz:
    survived WW2 and her countries helped save the rest of them;
    owns the strongest combined armed forces (Uk, Oz, Canadia, etc) complete with aircraft carriers and nukes;
    her favourite homeland is the second largest European economy;
    has a permanent voice on the UN Security Council;
    probably the best known and arguably most liked of them all.

  • No, no, no. These are mere nouveau riche fripperies, this is about lineage. Besides, she's allegedly female (although gender may be different on her native planet). I will have to get my team of genealogists to check her relationship to Ferdinand the Utterly Barking of Schitwiperburg (983 to 1001), without that very basic qualification she is a nobody.

  • These are mere nouveau riche fripperies, this is about lineage.

    Having a capital warship named after oneself while one is still alive is a bit garish, yes.

    You seem like an expert on this so I’ll defer to your insight, but do space serpents bind themselves to tradition, or do they value power and political prowess?

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