Strum Wealh, on 08 July 2014 - 04:15 PM, said:
One of the Davions' (very likely fictional) ancestors, one Jean-Baptiste d'Avion, is supposed to have served as a bodyguard to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and been granted holdings in Scotland as a result - a point supposed to be used by some of his descendants to claim to be of Scottish rather than French heritage.
(All of the above comes from House Davion (The Federated Suns), under "Rise of
By contrast, the society and government of the Federated Suns is obviously modeled on that of the United Kingdom, with echoes of the British Empire.
So, yeah - FedSuns = "British Empire (IN OUTER SPACE!), ruled by Frenchmen"
I agree with this