Goldenbaum Dynasty

The Goldenbaum Dynasty ruled over the Galactic Empire for 489 years, through the reigns of thirty-seven Kaisers, or emperors. When the Goldenbaum Dynasty fell in {{d|490|ic}}, it was succeeded by Reinhard von Lohengramm's Goldenlohen Dynasty.

The capital of the Goldenbaum Dynasty's government was [[Neue Sanssouci]] Palace, on the planet [[Odin]].

Under the Goldenbaum Dynasty, the social hierarchy of the Galactic Empire was rigidly divided between the nobility and peasantry. At the start of his empire, Rudolph von Goldenbaum screened the people for "genetic purity" with the Inferior Genes Exclusion Act. Those he found worthy, were admitted into the newly-formed aristocracy and would, through bloodright, serve as the ruling class of the Galactic Empire for nearly five centuries. The Empire under the Goldenbaum Dynasty was a harsh, totalitarian state. Purges, state executions, and general oppression was the order of the day. Civil rights and liberties simply did not exist, as the Kaiser — and, by extension, the nobility — were imbued with near-absolute power.

==Kaisers==
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! Name
! Reign
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|1 || [[Rudolf von Goldenbaum|Rudolf I]] (Rudolf the Great) || {{d|1|ic}}-{{d|42|ic}}
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|2 || [[Sigismund I]] || {{d|42|ic}}-??
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|3 || [[Richard I]] || 
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|4 || [[Otofried I]] || 
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|5 || [[Kasper]] || {{d|123|ic}}-{{d|124|ic}}
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|6 || [[Julius]] || {{d|124|ic}}-{{d|144|ic}}
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|7 || [[Sigismund II]] || {{d|144|ic}}-{{d|159|ic}}
|-
|8 || [[Otofried II]] || {{d|159|ic}}-??
|-
|9 || [[August I]] || 
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|10 || [[Erich I]] || 
|-
|11 || [[Richard II]] || 
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|12 || [[Otto Heinz I]] || 
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|13 || [[Richard III]] ||  2??-{{d|247|ic}}
|-
|14 || [[August II]] (The Blood-Maker) || {{d|247|ic}}-{{d|253|ic}}
|-
|15 || [[Erich II]] (The Blood-Stopper) || {{d|253|ic}}-??
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|16 || [[Friedrich I]] || 
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|17 || [[Leonhard I]] || 
|-
|18 || [[Friedrich II]] || 
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|19 || [[Leonhard II]] || Imperial Year ???-324
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|20 || [[Friedrich III]] (The Defeated) || {{d|324|ic}}-{{d|331|ic}}
|-
|21 || [[Maximilian Josef I]] || {{d|331|ic}}-{{d|336|ic}}
|-
|22 || [[Gustav]] (The Hundred Day King) || {{d|336|ic}}-{{d|337|ic}}
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|23 || [[Maximilian Josef II]] (The Seer, The Rebuilder) || {{d|337|ic}}-???
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|24 || [[Kornelias I]] || 
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|25 || [[Manfred I]] || 
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|26 || [[Helmut]] || 
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|27 || [[Manfred II]] (The Exiled) || {{d|398|ic}}-{{d|399|ic}}
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|28 || [[Wilhelm I]] || 
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|29 || [[Wilhelm II]] || 
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|30 || [[Kornelias II]] || 
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|31 || [[Otofried III]] || 
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|32 || [[Erwin Josef I]] || 
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|33 || [[Otofried IV]] (The Blackmailer)
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|34 || [[Otto Heinz II]] || 
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|35 || [[Otofried V]] || ??-{{d|452|ic}}
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|36 || [[Friedrich IV]] || {{d|452|ic}}-{{d|487|ic}}
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|37 || [[Erwin Josef II]] || {{d|487|ic}}-{{d|489|ic}}
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|38 || [[Catherine von Goldenbaum|Catherine]] || {{d|489|ic}}-{{d|490|ic}}
|}

==Appendices==
===Apocrypha===
The name Goldenbaum means Golden Tree. There is a former German Politician called Ernst Goldenbaum, who was Minister for Land and Sylviculture in the German Democratic Republic. 

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