Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-4960835-20160524105213/@comment-25309944-20160810135941

@Eco Understood.

The only way for France to dominate the Covenant would be for the Mirusians to negotiate and not exercise their veto. If they show up and veto everything, or don't show up, they've effectively crippled the Covenant. That's why France passed over leadership to the Waptoria, I assumed nobody would be willing to negotiate so long as France held informal leadership over the thing.

In the end, the Covenant isn't a formal system yet. It isn't like the EU, it's more like the Concert of Europe. In order to get anything done, you need to get all of the powers together and convince them to opt into a treaty which is binding to everyone only because they agreed to it.