I'm using the word as it was described to me once upon a time when TNP's system was described to me; I put it in quotes deliberately. I probably should have clarified that in that post.

What is meant by that is IC stuff (i.e. checking that it's not somebody proscribed, etc.). Obviously I don't think the intelligence body should be making political decisions, and I don't think intraregional political considerations should factor into whether or not somebody is accepted into the assembly.

(This post was last modified: 12-24-2019, 09:28 PM by Roavin.)

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I absolutely do not what an intelligence body making “political checks” and deciding who can and cannot be a member of the Assembly. I honestly don’t see how anyone could feel that to be appropriate.

This seems really misplaced to me, to be honest. I don’t know where this idea ever came from that an “intelligence body” should remain ignorant of politics. First, really, TSP doesn’t have an intelligence body. It has a group of players who have a lot of experience and knowledge related to how the game works and how best to protect TSP. That obviously involves politics— how else do you get all of that experience and knowledge?

And if not these people who we near universally recognized as the best to protect us... who should have the power to “decide who can and cannot be a member of the Assembly”? Some other person we *don’t* recognize as having as good or better knowledge and experience?

Doesn’t make any sense to me. The alternative is... letting the political process of the Assembly itself decide? Which would just be saying one group’s politics is preferable over the other.

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