Critique: The disco diplomacy system

[Thyrzul]

So i take it that "in reality" the Council and the Union Corse are no longer friendly to each other and the Council has a good reason to dislike the CR-UC cooperation.

No reason to dislike, Council is not even aware of it. Council views Corse as something they don't trust because they don't know much about them, but don't even care that much. If they knew the involvement of UC in FG, that might change stuff regarding how they view the Corse in general and the relations of this triangle, but that's yet to happen.

Now...can the Council know of the CR working on both sides?
-Yes, if the UC operate in areas where the CR-GRN combat takes place- they would have a solid chance of witnessing the CR-C tag team.

UC knowing about C-CR relations is not the same as C knowing about UC-CR relations. UC knows about Council and Colonials being buddies down in Taus by my knowledge, and so far they don't seem to mind it. If they meet a mixed task force taking down Gallic Royals, they can still act like they have nothing to do with CR.

-Yes, if the GRN ever discusses anything about getting in and out of Gallia or recent battles officially or randomly with some of the UC - at least the GRN faction status hints that this is plausible.

UC involvement against GRN forces may raise questions about them, but sure not about their relations with the CR.

- Yes if there is any kind of news coverage or war reporters reporting on what happens on the fontlines( Which i would strongly suggest)

Again, I can't see how that would spoil/reveal UC-CR relations to Council. UC doesn't really operate on the frontlines, do they?

My gut feeling tells me that i would simply cross the CR-C alliance and drop it to a neutral point. The Council doesn't like them in Gallia and being snake tongued and the CR seems to have some kind of reason to go to Gallias heartland that is worthy to risk the wrath of the Council. I have no clue about the councils military strength- but for the CR i remember them as rather bloody nosed and down in the dirt- which means that they might not be such a big addition tho the Councils interests in any way, making them even more droppable if they don't comply to their demands and lessening the reason to help out.
Neutral attitude suits well- other than that you could argue for the OC and the Brets to enter a formal Alliance ( just don't tell the Libertonians!)

By my ooRP knowledge it only happened once that they got into Gallia, and that was because they were offered getting their taken home system back if they do so. Council got the military strength of like a smaller house trapped within Champagne, surrounded by a force outgunning them vastly, so that's a force they can't really do anything else with than defend that system. Council also got the military strength of about the same size of CR within Roussillon: like 5 battleships, a good dozen or two cruisers, etc. Given the proximity of Coronado and the already mentioned TAZ-C-CR triangle, the three factions are good to go along with eachother. Prior to FG, our stance with CR was allied. Your gut feelings are somewhat accurate, the revelation of FG dropped this stance to strongly friendly, only because of a talk on Ravenhurst Watch LaFlamme had with Anders, and mainly because this proximity, but they got banned from Gallia for indefinite time by Giroux. A possible revelation of the CR-UC relations would bring us more close to this neutrality, but there is still the fact that the Roussillon branch is approximately as much bleeding from the nose as the Colonials do, we still live close to each and we still have common enemies. These might be the most important factors making LaFlamme think thrice when he conducts diplomacy between Council and the Colonials.

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