to help the time line of understanding
I got told about this on the 15th late evening pacific time, by a member of mcxa.
so on the 15th of feb, the rumors started on this. By the 16th they knew they had to act.
Many members of the mcxa are hurt by these events, people you think you can trust as loyal members up and pull something like this..
Should Top be held accountable, sure they should, only to their treaty and bloc partners, and that's it. The question about TOP is this, did they violate any of their treaties in doing this. If yes, they should be held accountable, if not, then let it alone.
As for TSO, Their plan was planned out, and it was premeditated, weeks or months in advance to slip one at a time out quietly. TFS and Valashu were supposed to be the first ones. they left on the 11th.. Sam had quietly announced he was stepping down as co-chancellor on the 12th but he would stay a few more days and then make an announcement.. That to me clearly says, I'm planning to betray my alliance when your working on a mass exit strategy to work out over time.
When the plan broke wide open on the 16th they all still ran for government, none of them withdrew from elections, that would also conclude they wanted to do as much damage as possible, by laying waste to the high council, and to the many departments. One in their right mind would say, if your going to leave you should resign from elections. They did not. very few resignations from government actually happened.
The Lessons to our alliance and many others is this, do not allow one person in your alliance to become indispensable, or irreplaceable, or do all the work and have no one else left to do the work. The deputy of a department should be just as good as the department head, the many members working in that department should be able to function without having a department leader directly over top of it. Never allow people to stay in government for extended periods of time unless they know when to quit. While it sounds great to be a leader or department head forever, alliances should think about that.
That is all I have to say on this.