NEW ZION: Sector: 20, Chameleon Year: Subsector: B, Thoth Day: System: Solomon Gravity: Settled/established: Axial tilt: By: Neo-Christian fundamentalists Oxygen: Satellites: % Water: Ident code prefix: NZI Continents: Ruled by: NIKE, Subsector 13-A: No. systems: 181 Sector: Crater with 3 inhabited planets: 3 Ruled by: with 2 inhabited planets: 13 with 1 inhabited planet: 22 NIPPON-NI: Sector: 7, Cygnus Year: Subsector: A, Kinnison Day: System: Amaterasu Gravity: Settled/established: 2129 Axial tilt: By: Japanese Oxygen: Satellites: % Water: Ident code prefix: NIP Continents: Ruled by: General: The settlers wanted to return to the glorious old days of the samurai, without losing modern conveniences or an industrial base. On-planet, the Baron is called the Shogun. NOBILITY, COURTESY: Those treated as Imperal nobles, though not strictly speaking nobility themselves, out of courtesy to the noble parent or spouse. This is normally a Life Noble's spouse or a ruling noble's younger children. NOBILITY, IMPERIAL: Life and ruling nobles. In common usage this term includes the Sovereign and Rangers, though technically speaking they are royalty. See chart below for numbers and the proper ways of referring to and addressing royalty and nobility.