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As for the number of council members, I think that 6 is enough. I also think that these should be the most qualified people, not just nominated ones as that can cause bias.
As opposed to the bias that comes from people who are chosen by an individual?
Seriously, if I were to pick people to establish a rule, I would pick people that agreed with me the closest, so as to attempt to control the whole situation. The Bs| is already getting a bloc of 3 members of the same ideological background. The VAST majority of Independents play a entirely different way. Some of these ways aren't ways followed by the Bs|. I point to Rebel-Lion's ideas above. No Bs| would ever consider creating an event that has them attacking ships en route to Cambridge, although it seems like a really Orderly thing to do. This would be jumped on by most independents I have met so far. Some of them might even RP it. Should the council be made up of people who think Omicron Minor is the only place the Order should be, or should it contain people that aren't afraid to hold events in Liberty?
The answer is simple. It should be made up by the same ideological background of those who are participating in it. By including the desire for independents, you include the need for independents that don't think like the Bs|. You all have your bloc, so Order Independents should be free to have, if they wanted, the most extreme LOLWAT people on the council if they wanted (dear god please no). That right shouldn't be taken away. It is there to ensure that people can have a "stake" in the order and think it has a chance of representing them. Without that, My order character would not follow the council. With it, he will, even if Tenacity ends up with a seat on it (dear god please no).
The whole nomination process is my suggestion leading up to a forum vote, since no one else has suggested a better way of ensuring the independents are chosen by the independent community. Now that I think about it though, that doesn't work very well... Anyone have any better idea on how to get a good and real vote of who should be on the independent side of the council?
