Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20170210202048/@comment-4960835-20170211093806

And the Zarbania Powers?

I agree with Charles that the Covenant of Mirus defenitely needs to stay in place as the overarching organisation that dictates extragalactic laws, and serves as a platform to ensure the coöperation between the natives and the extragalactics. Aside from (in-universe) ensuring collective collaboration and advancement, the latter was the main fuctions of the Enlightenment Collaborative as well (hence why it -wasn't- involved in the Mirusian Coalition Wars and the extragalactic Persan were in it from the beginning), so that point sort of renders itself moot. Hence why practically all the Collaboroative states (again, not all of which are Mirusian) saw the Covenant as an upsurpation - the Xonexi de jure replaced it with the Covenant of Mirus when there really was no need to. Out-of-universe, I actually hoped that the Xonexi nations with Mirusian colonies could join the Enlightenment Collaborative one day.

Of course, the Covenant of Mirus has a lot more extragalactic recognition and we are ought to make use of that. What I propose is that the Collaborative gets reformed as the scientific/cultural/collaborative branch of the Covenant of Mirus, or perhaps even as a faction within tit. For exemple, membership of the EC automatically gives one membership of the CoM, though if one just seeks military protection one becomes a member of the CoM without becoming a member of the EC.