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* Sir [[Babylon 5|G'Kar]] of a new Round Table, though the [[King Arthur]] who knighted him was [[Napoleon Delusion|not entirely kosher]].

* In [[Gurps]] [[Traveller]] the volume ''Nobles'' details the system of Nobility of the Third Imperium. The titles are for the most part drawn from the British system. One quirk is that the duties are separated from the fiefdoms (a Baron is effectively hereditary mediator between a single planet and the Emperor but this fief is not his planet; in even higher grades, the fief is likely to be far away from the world where their duties take place). The fief is officially given to provide expenses for the noble life, and unofficially to provide a hostage for the Noble's behavior, and is traditionally a landed estate but may take another form. It is to be noted that there are several levels of nobility, including "honor" nobility who got it for achievement, "rank" nobility to adjust the level of precedence of Imperial military or civil servants, and "high" nobility who are actually a type of satrap or as has been said a mediator with the public of a given planet or group of planets.

**As the Imperium is [[The Federation|decentralized]] and has planets who were acquired by willing annexation, conquest, colonization or some combination thereof some planets have local systems of nobility some of which existed even before the Imperium. If there is likely to be confusion between titles the adjective "parochial" is placed on (I.E. it is illegal to have a planetary ruler be an Emperor for obvious reasons but he can be a "parochial emperor").