[Discuss] Strategic secessions (was:Re: Life without a Judge)

[Andrew Asche]

>  In the case on EC, none of this applies. This secession was apparently planned for months. There was debate about it. It leaked out and /everyone/ knew about it. My char who joined recently and rp'd surprise was /told/ realm-wide that they had discussed and planned this for months. There was plenty of time to stop it.
It was more like a couple of weeks, and again, I can assure you that
with or without the leak, with or without approval, we would have
bribed, fought, or stolen our land to get our realm.  The fact that we
were able to convince others that it was good for them was simply good
business.

>  To say that the rulers would willingly chop off a bunch of land /attached to the realm itself/ simply to give some "troublemakers" a place to live is silly. Ship them overseas, or hang them - don't give them their own Kingdom.
Not troublemakers in the sense you are thinking of.  We're talking
about Knights, some landed, who were serving loyally and had done for
a while.  We were fighting with words and were not coming across as
treacherous.  We weren't troublemakers in the "rebel" sense, we were
troublemakers in the sense that we had different political views,
which doesn't sit well in a democracy.

The fact that Fontan is a democracy changes things as well.  A
monarchy would be different, but the decentralized government of a
democracy sheds a different light on such things as a secession and
how one would go about carrying one out.