Yep, he does. Lotek is a good fella and it probably should've been talked over with him. The Emperor, however, left us little choice, really. In any case, I'm not really skypeable at the moment due to pressing 'Life', and there's also the fact that I'm not in any sort of position of power in the CR, both of my own choosing and 'influences', so I can't really talk to anyone about anything. I've dedicated myself to real life and 'playing the actual game'.
But, seeing how Zelzie says the Council of Rising Suns decided on this, LoTek must know about it too.
And Ivan, I can't really answer your whole last question because there's a few matters of secrecy there, but what it boils down to, at least for me, don't know about 'el presidente', is that I used to wrongly think that player actions can have real longterm effects in this game/mod, but they really can't. The Kusari thing, along with a plethora of other negotiations and 'things', was done while I was the 'Colonial freak' and when we were all working away in-Rp for RP motivations and when I actually believed in all this. I mean, I still do do stuff for RP, I like it, but it's now oh so casual, I don't really have any hopes or a purpose, which is kind of what the ultimate goal in any game is - having something to build towards. Along with my realization of how things are (Mostly, at least), I lost that as well. I don't really blame anyone for it, but it's the way things have come to work around here, most sadly.
But, mind you, this is no weak reason. I believe I have already explained in detail the RP reasoning behind all this. I don't know if Panzer made the decision based on OORP, RP, or both, reasons, but I know I probably would've done the same, or at least taken a firm attitude, solely because of RP reasons.
In a nutshell, the disadvantages of allying against Bretonia with Kusari tend to outweigh the benefits right now.
It's all a big circus, Disco diplomacy, anyways, that's what I've come to realize, personally.
Edit: And I still don't know why you think we have anything against Zelot. It's just that we deal with him solely in-RP, mostly because I don't know him outside the game, and, that is, we do not deal with Zelot, but the Emperor, which is the one thing that should matter anyways. I wish it was so with everyone.
If it were up to me, there'd be no OORP diplomacy, because that kind of diplomacy is the one that makes the real choices and is later merely justified by RP in this place. There should be just in-Rp diplomacy, with no behind-the-curtain dealings which are, effectively, cheating.
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