stuebinm quoted A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
He's associated three people to the Imperium
— A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Page 140)
thanks, Robert Harris, for making me unable to read imperium not Latin whenever it occurs in English text. But then ig that's the same, here? As in, what's meant is the power to command by itself and act as the state, which the emporer holds, and not the empire or anything like 'Imperium' usually means in German