'She's done this before.'
A few of the others shifted forward instinctively, drawn toward the empty page.
"Alright," I said, picking up from where the room's energy was already moving. "Structure. Let's lay out what we know first — what the minimum requirements are for a functioning faction within the war council framework, and then we build from there. I don't want to design something in a vacuum and find out halfway through that we've been reinventing something that already has a better version."
"Smart," Carven said, with a small dip of his chin. "The minimum functional requirements are well-documented. Every faction under the war council umbrella has to maintain at minimum three defined tiers of membership, a named leadership hierarchy with no fewer than two named officer positions beneath the faction head, and a recorded intake process for new members that's filed with the council's administrative body within sixty days of the faction's first active recruitment."
