Speaking of the Senate... I'm in my first game now, and I've been trying to placate them as best I can and have a decent record of completing missions. Now they hate me anyway (presumably because I've gotten to powerful), and has just demanded my faction leader's suicide or I would be outlawed.

Just browsing the manual I found no good expalnation on the concept of being outlawed. Does that mean I will come in a state of war with SPQR and the other factions?