Writing an Unwritten Rule

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That's what you will get with the rule of yours.

Might be interesting to have a rule to just stop official factions being passed around when the HC who did the original RP leave. Maybe make them unofficial and allow the new team to input for new officialdom.

This is the bigger concern as I see it. A faction like Xenos or Rogues for example would not be as much of a problem with a leadership change due to someone leaving abruptly without notice. Those types of factions have established roles and basic diplomacy with in the game, that dictates pretty much what they can and cannot do.

A player created faction, (using IRG as the example) that has created its own lines of diplomacy, research and role play with other factions and groups should be required to keep that established role play and diplomacy with the new leadership change. Taking over a faction like IRG and dramatically changing the agenda and objectives of the faction would seem like taking advantage of a situation to create a new faction inside an established official faction shell, with out having to go through the officialdom process.

+1