That makes sense, and I understand where you're coming from. That said, Yui and Hanako are the ones who make calls on who is stationed where and not necessarily the player of a character. Ideally everyone would be on the same page, though, where is where communication comes in. Usually there's some sort of advance talk about promotions and assignments and stuff instead of just cold-sending orders to people by surprise. Orders threads are typically the source of canon for who's assigned where.
In an ideal world I'd have a player for each division of the Star Army but the community's so small that's not feasible. But essentially if there's someone who wants to activitely run parts of the Star Army for me, I could use all the help I can get.
It needs to be pointed out that Feyani isn't a player character, she's a non-player character (NPC). And she's inactive. No one has posted for Feyani since Ethereal left and when Feyani was last messaged in the RP,
no one responded. Since she's an NPC, in theory the faction mangers can control her.
I've thought about removing Feyani before--Yui doesn't really care for the way she's done things, and I consider submissions of banned members radioactive and I try to phase them out at the first opportunity because I've been burned bad in the past and I don't want to go through that again.
I want Yamatai to be safe with articles and characters that no one can take away from Star Army. I didn't remove Feyani sooner because I didn't have anyone better to put at the head of SARA.
I was caught by surprise by the news post too. News posts are normally reviewed by me but this one bypassed the approval queue because Ametheliana is an admin. I did bring it up privately that basically it was an auto of Yui and/or Hanako because firing an admiral was their call to make. But I decided not to trash the news article because it'd just be removing someone's RP without gaining anything in return, and it was probably inevitable anyway. Also, there is some SARA reform in talks amongst the Yamatai FMs. What I said was essentially "next time, please ask first." And that's what the recent rules suggestion was about, too: "Ask first." I want to promote player consent and protect players control of their creations, while also keeping the faction active. What I'm not trying to do is make anyone feel bad or persecute anyone, and I ask that you don't either. This is a very small community and we depend on each other to keep it alive.
So let's communicate:
- Soban, since you've taken responsibility for this NPC, where do you think is the best place to put her?
- Ame, did you have some plans for SARA?
- Does anyone else want to run SARA? If not, I can do it. I'm SARA's creator and I've run it before.