The Human-Equestrian War

1 Week Earlier..

Barfelde Palace, Former Kingdom of Greosa...

The Normally quiet palace in the kingdom's largest city of Barfalde is now bustling with activity. Reporters from various Human kingdoms, repubics, confederacies and empires are present outside talking to palace guards to get any information they can while some are trying to take photos of various windows hoping to catch a shot of the meeting being held by most of the human leaders. Behind the reporters is an even larger crowd of people simply waiting to hear the outcome of this.

Meanwhile inside the palace a large group of various kings, leaders and diplomats are sitting around a large table made up of various smaller tables to accommodate the large gathering. They are all speaking to eachother in the new standard human language agreed to a few decades ago, some obviously still rusty but most fluent in it. Soon the various conversations are hushed as a man at the end of the makeshift table stands up and drives a gavel into the table, silencing all voices as they all look towards the man.

"I suppose now is a good time to start, Unfortunately the Kingdom of Phuxidor and Republic of Stedia refused to join us here." The man grabs a briefcase from a nearby guard and opens it. "Let us skip the formalities for the sake of lost time, as you all know I am Emperor Felix Nomida of the Paragon Empire, and we are here to discuss a long overdue unification of our species. To unite our fractured and disorganized states into one unified empire much like the one lost 1300 years ago. Now we all stand here today to cooperate in peace for our lands and prosperity for all humans. A shame the Phuxidians and Stedians couldn't see things our way, Never the less let us begin." Felix states as he sits down in his chair and grabs a few papers.

"Now I know many of you are here are wondering one thing and we might as well discuss the elephant in the room first, Who will lead this new empire." Felix says as he looks over the men and women in the room each looking at eachother, some mumbling to their neighbors. "Now we must first discuss who will lead us, for if we do not decide now we may never decide at all and our dreams of unification will wither on the vine."

A Woman stands up, holding a few notes of her own. "If i may, How will we decide who? Not to offend any here, but some may be less desireable to lead, I Myself am too old and childless, thus there will be a succession crisis later. I vote we create a ballot of poeple here who wish to become the new 'emperor', so that those who do not wish to lead or see themselves as incapable may be at ease for now. Then we can decide from the names who is best fit."

"A Fine idea indeed Queen Eli, Guards, fetch a box, Now everyone here grab a piece of paper-" Felix gives a stack of papers to a guard to hand out. "-and write your name, then write whether you wish to rule or not. You will not be looked down upon if you choose to not, there is no shame in dropping out when you know you cannot win." Felix states as he writes his own name onto a paper, which cause the rest of the men and women to do the same, some taking a few seconds to think before giving their paper to a guard to put in the box.

Soon when all the papers have been collected the guard holding the box puts the box on the table and begins to read over the papers, discarding those who drop out to the left while putting those who wish to lead on the right. When finished the Guard counts those who participated.

"Out of 87 total 'candidates' only 12 wish to participate. Those being, in no particular order, Emperor Rufus Ovicula, Emperor Felix Nomida, Queen Eli the Fifth, Empress Cassia Dives, King Aquila Barbula, Chancellor Cato Blaesus, King Maximus Isaricus, King Philo Libo, Tsar Ellar Nikol, Emir Haamid Al-Dia, and finally Prime Minister Sarka Adia."

Silence rains over the table as everybody thinks over the names. Soon enough a minor prince speaks up.

"Shall we have a blind vote, if no majority is reached then the 2 leaders with the biggest votes should make a speech saying why they should be the leader?" The prince states while sitting back down.

"That seems like a fine idea, guard, pass out more papers." Aquila states as he grabs another paper and writing his vote on it.

Soon the leaders around the table are deep in thought, some conversing with neighbors while others stand to talk to those not near them. The 12 who are running do not get to vote and, as to not sway any votes by talking, are standing on the far end of the room, waiting for the results...

Eventually, after an hour, all the votes are counted in. A different guard grabs the box and begins to count the votes along with 2 other guards. Counting each vote and putting them into 12 unmarked piles. Taking a few minutes to count then counting a second time to be sure, the guards gather up the votes and call everyones attention.

"No majority vote reached, top 2 voted are King Aquila and Emperor Felix, out of 75 voters, Aquila with 23 votes, Felix with 26, and the rest were distributed relatively evenly between the rest, with only note of Queen Eli recieving 10 votes.

The room is silent as everybody present takes in the information. Soon Felix speaks up.

"It seems me and Aquila will have to prepare a speech. Though it is late today, we will continue this meeting tomorrow and give me and Aquila time to write." Felix turns to Aquila. "Good luck to you." Felix then bid the meeting farewell as he walks to his guest suite in the palace...