[Shame]

He demanded that they surrender, which they promptly did.

When I look at the empires, his original empire is still active. The breakaway empire is dead and has nothing. There was a suggestion that I have the original empire surrender to the new empire and everything would be ok, but the new empire is "dead".

The weird thing is that both empires in the host screen have my buddy as the owner. If I could somehow remove his ownership of the breakaway empire, he might be able to take his original empire back... Any suggestions on how to accomplish this feat.