Faction leadership is a unique process on Aurbis, when you are approved and receive leadership over a faction, the founder will have to choose from a list of 5 hard coded succession laws. You must consider the future of your faction in the world, and factions that fail to achieve their stated goals, go inactive, or have repeated succession crises will be automatically disbanded.
How it works
The five laws are not interchangeable. Each prescribes a specific path the leadership takes when the seat goes empty:
- Designated heir (
heir) — leadership passes to the named successor the previous leader filed with the realm.
- Elder consensus (
elder_consensus) — leadership is decided by the named council of elders the faction has registered.
- Vote of confidence (
confidence_vote) — leadership opens to a vote among the existing roster.
- Combat trial (
combat_trial) — leadership is contested directly, by the rules of the faction's own combat tradition.
- Admin mediation (
admin_mediation) — leadership is decided by realm staff when no other rule will resolve it.
You choose your law when the faction is founded. You can change it later only through the faction's own change-of-law procedure, which itself follows the law currently in force. Factions that go inactive long enough, fail their stated goals, or cycle through repeated succession crises without resolution are automatically disbanded by the realm and their chronicle is closed.
Commands — /help faction succession
The succession surface lives under /faction succession. The full /faction command set is documented in The Faction System.
/faction succession <faction-id> — Show the current rule and any active cases./faction succession <faction-id> rule <heir|elder_consensus|confidence_vote|combat_trial|admin_mediation> — Set the succession rule for the faction./faction succession <faction-id> heir <member> — Designate the named heir (where the rule allows)./faction succession <faction-id> start — Open a succession case.
The mirroring surface for cohorts lives under /cohort succession — see The Cohort System.
