Had an old FC go down a similar route. Leader bailed out and passed Leader to a new person. New leader, with barely a word beforehand to anyone, brokered a merger with another FC. A week later she kicked everyone and I believe sold the FC to someone else as she left for the new FC (that my wife and I wanted no part of) since the FC still existed but with three characters that were never in the FC before that appeared to me to all belong to the same person. Some of us gladly would have kept the FC going if the leader wanted to bail, but no she handed someone basically their own rank 8 solo FC and Medium personal house... (The FC STILL exists over a month later with just those 3 same named chars)