Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
If S9 exists and is known,
1) why isn't IT the dominant nation on the continent, or the seat of power if incorporated into the wider Turali people?
2) why would the "Evil" claimant wanted conquest, why choose to sail across the seas and do arguably a much more complicated conquest/expansion INSTEAD of just marching north?
3) and on that, why move their armies away so they couldn't defend against potentially aggressive actions from S9?
1. Not interested in being that, and/or perhaps just not politically active enough to take that crown. Tulliyolal is the throne of the guy that unified the continent, after all.
2. Already part of Tural as a society.
3. Already part of Tural as a society.

Your reading seems to assume that Solution Nine would inherently be the head of Turalian society if it was involved at all, and so since Tulliyolal is, Solution Nine must therefore be uninvolved. But honestly, my read is that Solution Nine is a goddamn repository of high-tech combat-ready equipment, and the warmonger is going 'We have all this firepower RIGHT HERE, why don't we just go overseas and USE IT'. And everyone else is just telling him 'no, war sucks, knock it off'.