[DrPraetorious]

Xietor, I'm going to have to disagree.

Personally, I wouldn't be willing to accept a sub who wouldn't honor my alliances and crush my enemies. If that were the option, I'd give all my stuff to an ally and go CPU.

In the obvious example of the war between you and C'tis, this means Lanka won't be paying Atlantis back for the extensive favors that Atlantis did for Lanka in the past. In a sense this is good, because I think people honor their agreements too scrupulously and that cooperation should be riskier. OTOH, I'd be pissed off if someone subbed for me and then screwed over my allies, as this is not something I'd do.

This is impossible to adjudicate except by the person-who-is-being-subbed-for; maybe Lanka was planning to betray LA Atlantis anyway, I certainly can't know for sure. But the sub should obey the diplomatic instructions of the subee, which obviously I haven't seen. It seems unlikely to me that Meglobob's stated intentions are in accord with what K would've allowed, but that's just speculation on my part. If K included no diplomatic info, that may have been what he had in mind.

Anyway, yes, Frank *is* in a funk, no question. He generally gets worse when he's driving an ambulance.