Once again, the Constitutional Convention is at hand, and with it, hundreds of thousands of representatives, functionaries, bureaucrats, council members, lawyers, priests/esses, soldiers, Kin, and Protectorate members flock to Candle Keeper Station. The halls and sections set aside for this function turn from cavernous empty rooms to a nearly overcrowded bustling city practically overnight.
Minor issues are dealt with over days of screaming matches, legal arguments and inconsistencies are resolved, petitions and interest groups are addressed and dealt with, and a thousand other minor things turn and churn in the political sphere of the Glimmering Federation.
It would be a successful, if not groundbreaking, because of the minor issues solved, Con-Con, as the youth have come to call the event, were it not for two problems that have popped up.
The first and foremost issue revolves around the effort to turn Voxx Primus to the side of the Glimmering Federation. Not because of any dissent in the ongoing undermining and infiltration, many are happy that their ranks upon that world have swelled to nearly 150 million saved souls despite the continuing, if lessening, crackdown on the unfortunates living in the Underhive of the world's capital and the Witch Hunts petering off, but because of one glaring issue: there is no plan on what to do if they succeed in turning this world.
A Hive World is...the less said about it, the better, yet one thing must be said: they cannot be allowed to exist within the Federation. Nobody within the political apparatus seriously considers the continuation of the Hives as something that will happen within the Federation, as nearly every level of them is entirely against either moral, practical, ethical, or religious considerations and sentiments.
And yet, though plans are plenty on what to do to aid the infiltration, there are few plans on what to do with a world housing around ~700 BILLION PEOPLE.
There are some ideas, like pumping the inhabitants of the world full of anaphrodisiacs and letting time do away with the population that cannot be supported should the nearby trio of Agri Worlds not be taken in full and wholly intact at the same time as the Hive World, or shipping the excess populations to Federation worlds (which would come to around 24 billion people per world, meaning it is wholly unfeasible). Some are even proposing the creation of Orbital Rings around selected stars to house the populations while using stellar mass harvested to produce all they need and improve the rest of the Federation.
But none are entirely sure what to do when Voxx Primus is liberated, for 700 billion people are more than 13 times the entire population of the Federation...upon a single world, no less.
[] [Voxx Primuse Afterplan] (Write-In)
(6-Hour Moratorium)
The second issue is that of Kin. Specifically, from sections of the Federation that are demanding that the Yeeni be granted that status through their continued service in the Federation, from their navy to the army, into their perfect record of supplying the levied taxes without any discrepancies, and the fact that no serious societal or special issues have popped up. Detractors, however, are pointing out that those are merely the actions of a Protectorate that takes its role seriously, rather than any proof that the Yeeni are to be elevated to Kin, the wording of the laws pointing out that such a thing would require it to be undeniably apparent to all involved that the Xenos in question are worthy of the elevation.
This, in turn, caused their opposites to declare the ones who had written the laws 'indecisive flip-floppers' who 'wanted their cake and eat it too,' with many calling for the laws to be changed. The opposition, in turn, told them to watch their mouths or they'd get a shoe thrown at them. With tempers flaring, Yeeni live streaming, and Kil'drabi joining in the bickering, it didn't take long for both issues to be split into two votes and halls. It also didn't take long for a member of one hall to try and tunnel into the other when they heard someone talking shit about them.
[] [Yeeni] (Write in your argument about whether they are to be made Kin or not. 200 Words minimum.)
[] [Kin Laws] (Write in if they are to be made more precise or if you want to do something else.)
