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That's hilarious. I feel the author's pain.
I forget how many times I went back and forth between imperial and Imperial in Galaxy Tales/Archangel, but it was too many. I finally settled on lowercase because that's what Star Wars did in its books, but then Jack argued that I should treat it like Canadian. Eventually, I went back to several sources and discovered I had somehow screwed up the earlier research for imperial in Star Wars. They do capitalize it. Not sure how I screwed that up. It became absolutely clear as I toyed with different names to replace Realm. Most of the names fell into the same category as Jack's example, where it definitely required caps.

May I suggest using an alternate timeline?

See Deu 29:1 for discussion on 28:69 vs 29:1. I suspect the Bibles you checked that are missing 28:69 have it as 29:1.
https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/c … eronomy/29

Ah, my favorite topic. Capitalization alone has probably added months to my writing over the past 12 years.

I questioned Gemini about this. It sees bus driver as merely a job, whereas it sees doctor, captain, astronaut, etc. as titles of respect. Of course, I'm sure there are plenty of cases where there would be no consensus as to whether to use titles of respect for given careers. I intentionally questioned it about astronaut and it says it should be capitalized in direct address ("Hello, Astronaut."). The latter is goofy since I've never heard of someone addressing an astronaut that way, although I suppose it's possible. Another case is someone with a master's degree vs. someone with a doctorate. Basically, no one calls me Master Dirk (except maybe if I had had a butler as a kid, lol), yet a friend of mine can be addressed as Dr. Lomow. Yet, if I'm a Jedi master or a mage, it would be Master Dirk.

If I had had hair over the past 12 years, I wouldn't anymore.

Father is an interesting case. Most Catholics use Father to refer to God the Father, and use father to refer to an unnamed priest in a given sentence. For example, Father Romano is walking around the Sea of Galilee. The father has never been here before. The Holy Trinity consists of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit.

I recommend the above approach to minimize confusion. Ditto for pastors, nuns, and sisters. If the "title" is followed by a name, capitalize it (e.g., Pastor Brown).