Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20170210202048/@comment-4960835-20170211162735

They did coexist side-by-side for a while, but the problem was/is that they -don't- fulfill different functions.

Because nothing in the Covenant treaties mentioned the EC, because the EC wasn't at large intergalactically recognised, because the fuctions that the EC used to fulfill were largely taken over by the Covenant, and because the base that is was funded upon (the Waptorian-Mendel-Persan-MTC Alliance) ceased to exist as a result of the split over the Triumvirate of Mirus, the EC gradually lost legitimacy and was largely dissolved into the Covenant as a result. That aside, it has always been the plan that the EC would've been seriously weakened following the Great Mirusian Conflicts. If anything, the Covenant helped it stay afloat for a couple more years.

France didn't stiffle the EC and I'm not accusing them of having done so. However, though I'm open to changing it's form, I'm not willing to change it's function, and I don't think Gorzill or Zillafire are either.