# Autarchial Succession - How Does It Look From Outside? *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Aug 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jeff Wilson *01 Aug 2010, 08:58* The brain-eating thing seems to be a secret, and as Vodalus says, they may reign a half century or a fortnight. But what story is told to the Commonwealth? What keeps people seeking to corrupt the process in their favor from discovering the secret? What gives the fealty-swearing vasals confidence that the new Autarch isn't just someone who planted a bug on the old Autarch to learn the mastering words and then did him in? ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com IEEE Student Chapter Blog at < http://ieeetamut.org > ``` ---