The dynamic inside the enormous and ceremonially decorated assembly had taken a drastically different turn.
All of the mechers and associates assumed that the 273 delegates with voting rights would hold an orderly and conventional vote.
The Survivalists generally despised drama.
Drama represented unanticipated consequences.
Drama vastly increased the probability of accidents.
Drama had the potential to completely upend other people's calculations.
Right now, a drama had unfolded at the worst possible time during the conference.
Before this point, everything proceeded roughly according to plan. The three cliques of the Survivalist Faction all followed their own scripts and tried their best to appeal to as many neutral delegates as possible.
It wasn't until that old lady Master Istis Yinwe utilized a loophole in the age-old rules that governed events like these that the table had been completely flipped!