First Gallic War

[Enkidu]

I believe no one really won. It was a civil war where a simple split occurred and no one was happy at the end. Well, I guess the Normandy folks are happier but that's not really the point.

This is entirely correct. The Royalists certainly aimed to reclaim Normandy, and in that they failed, as in much the same way the Normans attempted to blast their way through the Gallic Core Worlds - they failed in much the same sense, never actually holding Maine.

However, you could say that the loss for the GRN especially was lessened somewhat by the fact that the Royalists gleaned the experience and munitions of over two centuries of sustained militaristic development - to the point where Gallic military technology and numerical capability overshadows that of Sirian houses and actually permitted the Alliance Revenge Concept to be physically viable. In many ways the Normans are responsible for the Revenge Concept's success, if indirectly.

Now... let's take a moment and see how Gallia is an absolutist monarchy, and how that is the perfect environment for the nobility to pursue a variety of political debaucheries ( more exactly put, political intrigues ).
Normandy would be the by product of a noble assessing too much power in order to be content under the feet of DeFrance any longer and thus, he charged for independence, assured that he is better off as the king of his own demesne and not serving for another one.

Other possibility could be a different incarnation of the Council, one of the differences being that this one was successful. You don't need to hate the monarchy to have the desire to force a constitution and a change of government. Constitutional Monarchies can happen

How Normandy was governed or indeed the particular nature of the Norman culture appears unclear, but if we consider the GRN, GMS and GRP infocards as a source of accurate information, we can raise the following conjectures:

1) The Normans did not consider themselves constituent elements of the Gallic body - self-styled Normans instead of Gauls, whilst the Council (somebody from Council correct me if I'm wrong) consider themselves to be Gallics still. If this distinction arose pre-conflict and helped contribute towards the secession of the Normandy Region, or arose as a result of the nearly three hundred year long war, is slightly uncertain.

2) The Gallics appeared to regard the Normans as equal enemies rather than being subject to the Alliance Revenge Concept, as people if not in militaristic capacity.

3) The Normans did share a degree of mutual collaboration with the fledgling Council movement, but it appears that their relationship was mostly cautious rather than close, united via common opposition.

4) The Normans are willing to engage cooperate ships and stations (unlike the Council), but avoid firing upon escape pods (unlike the Maquis).

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