We’re at an impasse with the the orphan variables CfJ. Any one of the Engineers that are also admins can enact the CfJ and then immediately take advantage of the situation to produce or have a proxy to produce a favorable outcome for themselves or their proxy. Additionally, we’ve had some dynastic actions taken while Engineers were aware that those actions were technically illegal, and it is questionable whether or not those actions should have been allowed during this time of awareness, or if the CfJ regarding orphan variables could make those actions legal and thus justify them being carried out illegally in the moment.

We’ve had stops and starts to this dynasty, but we’ve reached a point where the stakes are too high to start over. The goal is a two-step process: see if there’s agreement to stop all dynastic actions and changes to the dynastic rules. If this passes, the follow-up Proposal is to decide the split amongst Engineers. If it fails, we can try other means of continuing on, but with the knowledge that timing and further debate on legal and illegal actions may continue and may cause additional problems.

This is essentially a referendum on whether or not victory in this dynasty should be decided by a chop at this point. I’ve just learned that a “chop” is the BlogNomic slang for victory by dice roll, where the faces of the die contain Engineers’ names, but some Engineers will have more faces on the die than others based on some criteria that seems agreeable, referred to as the “slice” of the chop.