There's some really big differences in legal practices between the Xianzhou ships too. For example, on the Fanghu (the ship ruled by Vidyadhara), you're able to directly inherit your previous incarnation's assets after rebirth. On the Luofu, once a Vidyadhara goes through rebirth, their previous incarnation's assets get gobbled up by the government, and you start over fresh (and presumably depending on welfare) in the next life.
It's things like these that make people actually pause and wonder if the Zhuming actually does have legal allowance for someone to "seize" weapons on the battlefield and claim ownership, even if they belong to still living allies rather than the enemy, or if Yunli was just making that up.
Despite those differences though, yeah, it seems like the 六司 regularly does personnel transfers between ships. Fu Xuan originally came from the Yuque, for example. So they're like an...interstate organization? Maybe we can liken the ships to the US states of the pre-Civil War USA and the 六司 to departments in the federal government?
As for "diplomatic envoy"... My interpretation is that the title was only used because it was carrying an Arbiter-General (天将), rather than any ship from one Xianzhou visiting another would be considered a diplomatic rep. In other words, the Arbiter-General in this case is sort of like a (sub-)head of state. So any transport vessel they are on is considered a diplomatic courier, maybe? And then, the Generals themselves could be members of heads of a department of the 六司 (eg. 云骑将军), but they don't necessarily *have to be*. So it's 2 systems that can intersect, but one isn't a subset of the other.
Dan Heng being the infodump source makes it more and more looking like he has more than just a little memories from Dan Feng, honestly...
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Date: 2024-08-08 04:47 (UTC)It's things like these that make people actually pause and wonder if the Zhuming actually does have legal allowance for someone to "seize" weapons on the battlefield and claim ownership, even if they belong to still living allies rather than the enemy, or if Yunli was just making that up.
Despite those differences though, yeah, it seems like the 六司 regularly does personnel transfers between ships. Fu Xuan originally came from the Yuque, for example. So they're like an...interstate organization? Maybe we can liken the ships to the US states of the pre-Civil War USA and the 六司 to departments in the federal government?
As for "diplomatic envoy"... My interpretation is that the title was only used because it was carrying an Arbiter-General (天将), rather than any ship from one Xianzhou visiting another would be considered a diplomatic rep. In other words, the Arbiter-General in this case is sort of like a (sub-)head of state. So any transport vessel they are on is considered a diplomatic courier, maybe? And then, the Generals themselves could be members of heads of a department of the 六司 (eg. 云骑将军), but they don't necessarily *have to be*. So it's 2 systems that can intersect, but one isn't a subset of the other.
Dan Heng being the infodump source makes it more and more looking like he has more than just a little memories from Dan Feng, honestly...