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My return inaugurated the usual bickering about who had what authority, the nominal and archaic role of the founder, and such similar arguments. I decided they were probably right and proposed constitutional reform. Basically, the idea was to formalize the executive troika system. Significant work went into this idea, with significant behind-the-scenes negotiating and discussion. The new system provided for an "Executive Cabinet" of the Founder (myself), the Vice Founder (Kir), two Consuls (Burg and Heku), two permanently appointed Senior Members (Kron and someone else, not sure) and a representative voting member (Jakee?) as well as three permanent non-voting members who were veterans (Paul, Rigo, and Helvi? Genuinely unsure). As you can tell, this is an extremely rigid and convoluted system, but it basically gave formal legitimacy to the de facto situation. While the Golden Bull ("constitution") from this time exists, most of the IRC side chats through which staff decisions were made have been lost, so records and recollection of this is hazy. The Golden Bull was issued formally on July 9th, ending the old offices of the region. | My return inaugurated the usual bickering about who had what authority, the nominal and archaic role of the founder, and such similar arguments. I decided they were probably right and proposed constitutional reform. Basically, the idea was to formalize the executive troika system. Significant work went into this idea, with significant behind-the-scenes negotiating and discussion. The new system provided for an "Executive Cabinet" of the Founder (myself), the Vice Founder (Kir), two Consuls (Burg and Heku), two permanently appointed Senior Members (Kron and someone else, not sure) and a representative voting member (Jakee?) as well as three permanent non-voting members who were veterans (Paul, Rigo, and Helvi? Genuinely unsure). As you can tell, this is an extremely rigid and convoluted system, but it basically gave formal legitimacy to the de facto situation. While the Golden Bull ("constitution") from this time exists, most of the IRC side chats through which staff decisions were made have been lost, so records and recollection of this is hazy. The Golden Bull was issued formally on July 9th, ending the old offices of the region. | ||
In any event, this system survived for basically a week per my recollection. For reasons still unknown to me, the main beneficiaries of having their powers formalized (Kron and Rigo) began to complain of overreach on my part and other issues and left the region in a single day, forming the second great departure after Black Thursday. Ormata may have come back and left at this time, and maybe Helvi did too, I don't really know and other people can pitch in with details. In some respects, this was a great disruption; Kron was a very active member, at the heart of many plots, and was also cartographer. It was not as soul-crushing as Black Thursday, however, because while Kron and Rigo were important members, they were not the functional "heart" of Ixnay, and most of the remaining cabinet members remained. I had to serve as Cartographer for about a week before Burg took over. | In addition to the great ambition of the OOC reform, there was a large IC agenda to consider as well. A great Lore Council - focused and dedicated forum to resolve 16 major lore issues - was scheduled for July. The items are interesting and worth listing, because they speak to the ambition we had at the time to creative a cohesive lore world as well as how far we would eventually come: | ||
* Lore cleanup – writing out of vestigial parts required by former nations and general lore streamlining | |||
* The basics of 20th century (and 21st century, as a knock-on) geopolitical diplomacy and its principle actors, particularly what the Great War was, who was involved, and why it occurred | |||
* Changes to and thoughts about the League of Nations, its rules of order, including whether or not to adopt the [[Code of the League of Nations]] as the body of IC “international law” | |||
* Dungeon-master type bot that also controls other IC simulation aspects like the weather – should we adopt these types of bots/simulator mechanisms and, if so, what should the parameters of its function be? | |||
* The history of Punth, the history and scope of Punth colonization, and the relation in general of the Punths to the Western world | |||
* “[[The Decline of Ix (OOC)]]” and a general conversation about the proliferation of non-democratic regimes, and whether or not to adopt the document formally as lore (this also bears on question #4) | |||
* The genesis and source of Germanic peoples and the method of their spread throughout the world | |||
* The history of linguistic groups and some kind of IxIndoEuropean (Levanto-Cronanean?) as well as a clear homeland for those speakers if adopted | |||
* The nature of the Holy Levantine Empire in the 20th century and beyond, as well as consideration to retcon its entire existence in the present world with a potential dissolution in the 1920s | |||
* The scope and the broad history of the Islamic World and its height of power over continental Ixnay | |||
* Maps of the region, particularly a koppen map, but also a new timezone map and consideration of concentrations of regional resource deposits, and the method of putting them together | |||
* The era of crusades, their parameters, who was involved, and what the result of these efforts were | |||
* The physical realities of the IxWorld, particularly geological concerns about the map and proliferation of mountains but also concerns about astronomy, the names of the heavenly bodies, and the like | |||
* A nature preserve somewhere in the region – where should it be and when should it have originated | |||
* Questions regarding the Northern Empire such as its border and greatest extent, and the influences on Helvianir, Burgundie, Kuhlfros, and others | |||
* The history of Christianity, when/how the Imperial Church split from Urceopolis, the history of the Orthodox tradition, and any other information about the Christian Churches in Crona and their general origin | |||
In any event, this system survived for basically a week per my recollection. For reasons still unknown to me, the main beneficiaries of having their powers formalized (Kron and Rigo) began to complain of overreach on my part and other issues and left the region in a single day, forming the second great departure after Black Thursday. Ormata may have come back and left at this time, and maybe Helvi did too, I don't really know and other people can pitch in with details. In some respects, this was a great disruption; Kron was a very active member, at the heart of many plots, and was also cartographer. It was not as soul-crushing as Black Thursday, however, because while Kron and Rigo were important members, they were not the functional "heart" of Ixnay, and most of the remaining cabinet members remained. I had to serve as Cartographer for about a week before Burg took over. Sadly, the Lore Council never took place because of all the disruption, leaving most of the issues to remain unresolved until the modern era. | |||
At the end of this whole thing, I basically dipped out again, having lost interest once again as my personal life became more interesting (as happens in your early 20s), but presumably this whole situation also left a bad taste in my mouth. Around this time, a player called Monteangelo became very prominent; in time, he would become era defining. | At the end of this whole thing, I basically dipped out again, having lost interest once again as my personal life became more interesting (as happens in your early 20s), but presumably this whole situation also left a bad taste in my mouth. Around this time, a player called Monteangelo became very prominent; in time, he would become era defining. | ||
IxNet was also a thing during this era, but I can't speak to it other than the fact we had our own forums with a URL. There was a lot of Crona-related hijinks going on, I think, plus a few attempted personal RPs. | |||
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