House of the Ασημένιο ΓΕΡΑΚΙ (Tepaki)

[Askthepizzaguy]

I believe that now is the time to open the floor for official business. M'lord, if I may have your permission, it is important that we discuss our priorities.

1. Membership

It is important that we expand our house with more generals, because there are political advantages to having vassals, and the more generals we have, the faster we can expand.

2. Military planning

We must formulate a united and desired course of expansion. Our primary goal should be reaching the 3 province milestone, as it comes with rights and arms that we currently do not have.

3. Diplomacy

We must work with other houses to assist in their expansion, that we might have their cooperation in expanding ours. The Asteri are on friendly terms with this house, but we need to improve relations with the Tagamata, if possible, and contact the other houses in the region regarding cooperation.

4. The Senate

We must find allies in the Senate if we cannot gain the support of the other houses. It may be possible to find allies in the far east, if we cannot find them in the west.

5. The Emperor and the Caesar

We need to establish friendly relations with the Emperor and attempt to build a friendship with the Caesar in spite of some of our recent political differences. I've attempted to heal the rift but it could be some time before we could call the Caesar our friend.

It pains me that we already have stubborn political rivals, and that I lost my temper in the Senate. I will have to bow out of the discussions in the future if I cannot contain myself. However, I do believe my arguments were justified and necessary for the survival of our house.

Certain factions will want to become dominant at our expense, we must form a broad coalition to prevent that. If any one faction becomes too powerful, they will monopolize the Senate votes and prevent expansion of the other houses by edict, and then we can all kiss our futures goodbye.

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Efstratios Monomachos, Second Rank of the House of the Tepaki, Order of the Silver hawk.