Alright. Dug up what I thought I remembered.
From A Question of Survival
Not quite what I remembered. Calling me out for sources is good. “Must be unanimous” doesn’t strike me as Alaric respecting that there was a vote. It’s such a bafflingly insane expectation that the only thing I could take from it was that he really wanted a clan. Not an inner sphere power with middling support for him.
So I was conflating some of my conclusions with the original source material.
EDIT: the person being quoted was immediately corrected in the book that not joining doesn’t inherently mean war. They were being dramatic.
No, this is good stuff, Church, because I actually
haven't read A Question of Survival yet, and I knew there was stuff in there regarding this subject.
FWIW (and I say this because Alaric could've been lying), there was this bit in DD on page 29: "Brimming with a confidence verging on hubris, ilKhan Ward accepted the Dominion Khans' need to work with their 'lower castes'. The ilClan would not try to impose Clan Wolf's interpretation of the Way of the Clans onto the Dominion, citing the wisdom of any Clan that could produce a man as gifted as Ramiel Bekker."
That said, I can't help but wonder if Alaric's rejection of the plebiscite results might've been a calculated move on his part specifically
to sow unrest between the Bears and the Rasalhagians, to basically force the Bears' hand.