House territories

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The lockdown I admit was perhaps a little rushed in RP terms, and I apologise for that; in RP it was a rather panicked emergency response by the Bretonian Government to the sudden and potentially dangerous new forces unleashed by the Reunion, but bear in mind that it was pretty much unenforceable without agreements with the IMG and Council. Now that we do have diplomatic agreements, the lockdown is being removed and Bretonia is trying to enforce its sovereignty in a more measured way, which seems more plausable in RP terms.

This discussion is about House Sovereignty in general, however, and I will definitely stand by and defend the fact that Bretonian Players have been claiming Orkney as Bretonian space at least to an extent for a very long time, as shown by the quotes below:

We, Her Majesty Carina I, Queen of Bretonia and Dublin, Empress of the Taus, Sovereign of Dundee,
Chester, Londonderry, Lewis, Orkney, Inverness, Poole and Salisbury, do relinquish our claim on the
Dublin and Londonderry Systems.....

Her reply to the Constitutional claims of Lord Mountbatten in September:

My People, I am the Queen of Bretonia, Empress of the Taus, Sovereign of the stars of Dundee, Chester, Lewis, Orkney, Inverness, Poole and Salisbury, and I am no pretender. My bloodline is not one of Pretenders, it is the Royal House of Bretonia.....

Any time Carina signed her name officially she listed Orkney under her claimed territories, such as here:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...c=25560&hl=

The Bretonian Constitution here:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=30738

And even check the preamble to the Bretonian Charter of Interstellar Law in the official Laws of Sirius thread: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...6&hl=orkney

All in all, I think we have a fairly solid claim to say that we have been considering Orkney Bretonian space, albeit unenforced, for quite some time now. This is not something we made up this week.

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>