Eh we have a good chance of giving Midgard obscene amounts of control with this, the colonies are their citizens after all, they'll be similar in thought due to culture if nothing else.
You know I'm surprised that no one has ever thought of just abstaining from a vote to let other parties come to us to try to swing the vote rather than just jump on whichever train seems like a f*ck you to the conservatives? No one's ever considered what sorts of boons we could get with being owed favors? After all then we wouldn't have to burn so much opinion when we try to swing unpopular votes. Ah whatever, be the good little doggy and bark twice for yes.
I don't think there's much that can be done, Surt's vote goes through unless we vote against him and abstaining from a popular vote seems to be a waste of time.
This is kind of tremendously important. Can I ask why you guys are voting for this?
One seat now will quickly grow to more seats than the founding members. And suddenly, strangers will have the power to, say, impose sanctions over Avernus.
We lose most of our significance if we dilute our power. Why do the colonies need a seat here? The Low Council can already kick things up to the High Council, and generally has a whole lot of leeway to operate.
This will soon mean that nothing gets done in both low and high levels of government. Jockeying for position will poison the colonies much like what happened in the Imperium. Not to mention the exponentially higher risk of corruption. The candidate themselves need not be corrupt for everything to go down the gutter, an aide that gives misleading advice or data can be ruinous.
Because with the current system
this is going to happen anyway.
People seem to be forgetting that in 60-70 years the colonies are going to be finished and all of them will get their own seats on both the high and low council.
So I'm in favour of this partially to let the expansion go through slower so it's not so sudden.
Avernus is never going to become useless as we have a guarantee thanks to the neo astropaths.
These are also not strangers they are citizens of the Trust and the govenors are selected by the Trust for their loyalty and skill if my omake is any indicator.
This makes sure that they know that and they are appreciated.
The council system we have now will need to be revisited in the future, but now is not a good idea.
It introduces an artificial resource for which everyone will wish to compete. The colonies will jockey for position, the high council will jockey for more colonies.
It creates bloat and corruption and stagnancy.
There's no reason at all to do this besides "feels good".
[X] godofsmallthings
Feels good has nothing to do with it, Surt wouldn't propose it if it wasn't.
This really is intended to cement their loyalty to the Trust, ease the trust into its expansion period and make sure that all issues that us "safe" in the core won't think off.
I certainly can't think of problems off in Mar Sara can you?
I also think you're exaggerating. Colonies might jocky for position to an extent, but the council will either give the seat to the Midgard of the area (which is fair).
There also are not any other colony worlds in our area to get unless you want to start invading the BD.
Resource colonies maybe, but we're not nearly that desperate.
In short this isn't perfect, but it's certainly the better of two options as far as I'm concerned.
