Spheres of Influence: Alliance

Geród nodded to Rykarth's concern. "I understand your concern, and sympathies. However even if there are valuable resources down there, all boreholes I imagine will be state controlled for the precise reason of security, both to neither let whatever is down there easy access to the surface and, I imagine, restraining reckless action on behalf of private individuals and enterprises to exploit it wantonly. Any expansion down there will be considerably more controlled and controllable than sailing across the seas to the East ever could be. And besides I sincerely doubt given the rate and difficulty at which any expansion into the underworld anyone here would even be so much as bothered to colonise under anyone else's lands, to allay the fears of both Margunkyn and Thearan."

"With that said, I do see the value in the Postmaster's article, and vote Aye. Allowing emergency meetings in the case of horrible occurrences the require calling of a convention, especially in the light of an organised conspiracy to literally undermine the Alliance, is a good idea. Any member nation who encounters some impending calamity that requires co-ordinated action should have the authority to call a meeting, especially if its something such as a plague. Frivolous abuse of such a power would be punished, I imagine with trade restrictions of other such punishments in proportion to the waste of time incured. I would add however, nations who justifiably call an emergency meeting based on their own intelligence and the emergency turns out to be a false alarm should not be unduly punished."