Hello friends,

In the last 24 hours there have been some escalations and overly dramatic parleys between our two states. In the best interest of moving forward, lets put aside all the potentially negative contact we've had that could spoil our otherwise jolly interactions.

I want to suggest a solution to the issues at hand, but first I'll briefly go over what I understand to be the underlying problems at hand for both states:

On the Auroran side of things, you guys need access to the shard for farming purposes, as well as access to reasonable neighbours who will cooperate with you for EXP production. I doubt you see 500x500 block claims as being unreasonable for this purpose as the shard is large enough.

For Concordia, we are worrying about many issues, the largest among them having a farming claim so close to our downtown core. We understand that there is only so much arable land in the shard, but the proximity is worrying. Before talks with Tambien, we were also worried about accessibility to the South of the shard, as we too have farms that we need to travel to in other shards (Rokko). While we have been assured by Tambien that the 500x500 would be the only claims made, I hope you can understand how suddenly having claims like that being made on your border a week into a new server can be worrying. A third issue is security, we would prefer to institute standards of defence to all of our boroughs, and having such a large area so close to us that isn't under our security policy can and will pose a risk to our security.

Thusly, I'd like to propose my solution to the whole issue.

The land currently claimed by Aurora in the Taiga shard will be recognised as a borough within the greater federation of Concordia, joining other districts such as Columbia and the Maester Alliance (myself included). Citizens of this Auroran Outpost will be given the right to vote in our elections and will otherwise be allowed to operate as citizens of Concordia, with access to our factories, security networks, farms, pylons, etc. In exchange we will be able to eventually institute our security policies (keeping raiders out) and send new players your way if they are interested in your district.

This would not extend to any area outside of the Taiga shard, Aurora would still be an independent nation. Borough laws right now are very non restrictive, giving the boroughs almost absolute freedom beyond asking for cooperation on teching up factories and pylon usage. Concordia is a direct democracy with an elected Prime Minister, however Concordia usually only engages when scale requires it (mostly on security/transit/factory issues).

In my experience thus far, Concordia is very flexible with regards to how the borough operate. As an independent organization, the Maester Alliance would not have chosen Concordia otherwise. We plan on working across many cities as the map goes on, however Concordia will remain our home base of operations.

Please feel free to discuss the proposition, nothing is reinforced written in stone and this is mostly to get opinions and debate started!

Respectfully,

Mulificus, Maester of the Council