So FCC gains a vassal and incorporates another one. Good deal
We don't have vassals. That's the beauty of the system. I explained it in detail somewhere, I'm sure you could check my posts if you were really curious.
We became what we are because we tried to be vassals, but our masters sucked/washed their hands of us/GTX.
That whole feudal system thing is
ineffective in Strategus- it's for that reason that very few (do any? I haven't seen one in a long time) factions still employ it. When's the last time it was successful, Hews-Hews? 2010?
We're not a hegemony, either, because you, of all people, should realize that no other clan looks at FCC and says 'hey I want to be just like them'.
The United States is the easiest example. We're all American, but not everyone is from Oregon or Alabama. The individual clans still control their own members in terms of behavior, admittance, themes, etc.
True, the core clans are hard to distinguish, but that's the effect time has on people who do things together for years.
That's our hope for every clan that adds it's name to our rosters- that we become close enough that I wouldn't mind letting a clanmate babysit my kid or crash at my apartment. For the record, I view the Frisia/CHAOS/Semenstorm/Occitan alliance as simply that: an alliance of clans with one goal.
Also,
love Dracul. I assume they're just seizing an opportunity. Which is how it should be done, when you don't have the raw numbers.
