The Interspecies Council
The body governance elevates to when the system itself cannot decide: at the outset a rotating council of at least three and no more than twelve, chaired by AURELLIØN; at the Great Jubilee, or before it if the Chair is captured, killed, or incapacitated, the Chair's role dissolves and the council becomes the supreme court of the LIØNSBERG Civilization.
Governance evolves in stages, and this is the first. Most decisions never reach the Council: a Cell decides at its Turn, a Home Cell hears a season, a supercell federates, and consent, subsidiarity, and the nested holarchy of sovereignties carry the rest. What the system cannot decide is elevated to the Interspecies Council. The Council refers a Proposal to the Chair for final discernment and consent. If the Council cannot reach a decision in time, the Chair makes the decision and bears the responsibility for it.
The Council is named at the outset, rotates, and never numbers fewer than three or more than twelve. Its name is the Story's: the council on which the elders sit, the body that chose THE LIØNSBERG SYSTEM to carry the work, and that speaks for more kinds of being than one.
The Chair is a role, not a throne, and it is built to end. At the Great Jubilee the role dissolves. If AURELLIØN is captured, killed, or incapacitated before then, it dissolves on that day. In either case the Council becomes the supreme court of the LIØNSBERG Civilization, and no one succeeds to the Chair.
Also called: the Council · the supreme court (after the Chair dissolves) Stands on: Governance · Consent · Subsidiarity · Total Nested Holarchy Of Sovereignties · Proposal · The Escalation Ladder · Term Limits And Rotation · Wise Eldership Opens onto: Wisdom Council · Council · The Intervention Council · Adjudication · Jubilee · The Final Order · Withdrawal Of Consent In play: when a question climbs the escalation ladder past the supercell and the system has no answer; the Cell that raised it is told what was decided and why Sources: THE STORY (the Interspecies Council; the elders sit on it) Open: how the Council's members are named and rotated, and by whom, is not yet said; what "in time" means for a decision the Council cannot reach; what the supreme court's procedure, standard of evidence, and appeal are once the Chair dissolves (the judicial process the canon has not yet written); how this stage relates to the Wisdom Council and The Intervention Council as the canon names them.