Big Change to QCRF : To become BAF

[beander2]

No problem. Won't screw up your plans. How does this work:

-A new MOD is appointed, from the Royalist Party, whom your character knows to be less of a hardliner Royalist. His name will be James Ralston.

-He appoints a new Fleet Admiral in command of all BAF, who is also known to have harbored Populist sympathies in the past. This removes the Crown from direct control of the military, a significant development, but one which your character believes is just a token effort to calm things after the recent overreaction against the populists.

In short, Parliament re-asserts authority over the BAF, but it is still a Royalist Parliament, and the Populists are still suppressed. You see that as a step in the right direction, but don't trust the Royalists enough to abandon your plans to work from outside the system.

The tension between Royalist and Populist will continue, with the MOD and Fleet Admiral caught in the middle, unwilling to fight other Bretonians, in the middle of a war, especially those whom they have some sympathy with. This aspect is something that can be built on greatly.

That work?

But why does there have to be any movement away from a strong monarchy at all? That's what I still don't get. Even what you propose here ("less hardliner," "populist sympathies") sort of deflates our balloon, so to speak. What couldn't the MOD be a hardliner?

I'm not trying to be argumentative; just trying to understand.

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar