[RM] disbandmend notice

[Victor Steiner]

It's a little more in-depth than that.
The leadership shut everything down because they felt the story devs were deliberately screwing over Rheinland lawfuls by forcing them into a Sigma war for the benefit of Bretonia, among other things. Let's not get into how the Sigma War came entirely out of left field because of how close Rheinland and Kusari were, down to having 90% techcell on each other's civilian shippies.
(in lore, a Rheinland fighting Kusari isn't a Rheinland rolling up with its now most powerful military in Sirius and eating Bretonia in one fell swoop after Bretonia just barely fends off Gallia by the skin of its teeth)
Rather than play that game, they just took their ball and went on with their lives away from Discovery, disbanding the factions because none of the players in that faction would still be around as that faction.

Well that's not true considering the Sigma war was over by then. And no, it was NOT for Bretonia's benefit. The Rheinland lawfuls had called it a day with the Sigma war, and the devs agreed. Reluctantly, but they did agree nonetheless. Thus with that aspect of discovery being done, albeit not in the way the devs wanted, they moved on. The catalyst for the Rheinland lawfuls pulling the plug was a PoB dispute which blew up into a 'staff are corrupt' dispute which I don't fully understand myself, only that whatever the issue, they talked themselves into leaving. Whether it be right or wrong I don't know and frankly I don't have the patience to find out.

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