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New Headquarters?

Previously, the headquarters for the TCC was located in Cordoba, Latina. However, as Latina is inactive and archived, I propose moving the HQ elsewhere. There are a few options for this:

1: To not move the HQ.

2: To move the HQ to another city in an active and well-mapped TCC member (that makes canonical sense).

3: To not have any permanent headquarters, and instead have the secretariat reside in their own country (as the position of the secretariat rotates between countries).

To me, option two makes the most sense, as Latina was never a very committed member of the TCC to begin with, from my understanding, and as the headquarters is not mapped in great detail there I think it makes far more sense to move it to another country. We'd have to get permission from histor if we end up going through with this (minor) change. Option three seems like too great of a level of decentralization. Once we decide the route we'd like to take, we can figure out the new location of the HQ if needed. --Lithium-Ion (talk) 16:47, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

In my opinion, 2 makes the most sense. I propose Hexagonia City, since it's a nice, “neutral” city, already hosting the Tarephian AN and other international organisations. --Tito zz (talk) 17:12, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

I think it's worth noting that Histor surrendered his Archantan territories specifically to focus on Latina, so there is the possibility that it may become significantly less inactive in coming times. It would be worth asking his plans moving forward before discounting the possibility of option 1, especially if he intends to rework/improve Latina up to his current standards. Additionally, I have to express concern about Hexagonia City as a potential headquarters. No disrespect to Chazeltine or to Tigeria, but it does feel like Hexagonia has already claimed a very disproportionate amount of TCC related powers and other international organizations, especially for its size. As such, my strong preference would be for some other city/country besides Hexagonia/Tigeria to have the TCC headquarters if it was moved. Cordoba or elsewhere in Latina itself remains a comparatively neutral option. If not that, I know ParAvion planned to offer up Saviso for the headquarters, which I'd support if moved forward with. Others have raised Quentinsburgh to me, but for the sake of fairness as its mapper, I'm not going to express a preference for it. --Ernestpkirby (talk) 23:45, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Esspecially if what Ernestpkirby said is true (that Latina will be reworked), I also lean towards Option 1. Latina is the biggest, and probably the most powerful country in Tarephia. It makes sense to have the HQ there. Tigeria already has a lot of institutions, so it wouldn't be right to put it there. I wouldn't mind offering Bestagen, Eicarl as an option, but believe that Latina is the better option. We should still have a national HQ in each country, though. We can also make a list of all the national HQ in each country.

--Fifafo (talk) 13:05, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I will agree with Ernest, Latina had its time with the TCC headquarter and Hexagonia already has many so would be good to decide on a place like Quentinsburgh or Trevers, well mapped cities and closer to the center of the Lyc. Brunanter (talk) 01:14, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Would you mind linking the locations to all the cities proposed? Thanks! --Fifafo (talk) 04:49, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

[1] Saviso (Vodeo), by ParAvion

[2] Quentinsburgh (Free Reedemia), my own mapping

[3] Trevers (Paroy), by PortCal

[4] Catamia (Allendea), proposed on the discord since it would have been a planned city in a new democracy at the time (TitoZZ's still working on mapping the area)

[5] Hexagonia City (Tigeria), though Chazeltine (its mapper) also seemed to endorse showcasing somewhere other than Hexagonia as well so it seems there is some consensus that Hexagonia has a lot of institutions already

--Ernestpkirby (talk) 10:03, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

I like Option 2: Move the HQ to another city in an active and well-mapped TCC member (that makes canonical sense). I can see why the concentration of institutions in Hexagonia City makes it a good candidate (I appreciate the consideration!), but I would encourage choosing another city. I also think that this is an excellent opportunity to add mapping detail to some city in the region which doesn’t have much detail yet and relocate the TCC headquarters there. Or you can use the TCC headquarters to showcase another city in the TCC. There are many good candidates to consider, including the four which Ernest linked (Saviso, Quentinsburgh, Trevers, Catamia) Chazeltine (talk) 13:13, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I'd lean toward Option 2 in this case, I think it makes sense to move the TCC Headquarters (or at least, the main administrative facilities of the TCC and hereby referred to as "the facilities") to a city that is more active in (and therefore more relevant to) the current state of the TCC. For me, the three finalist cities (in alphabetical order) to host the facilities would be:

• Catamia, Allendea - If history is to be written the way Tito_zz has posed in other discussion channels, hosting the facilities in Catamia would be a symbolic icon that the region has recovered from a turbulent past, and is looking forward to a continued peace and a direction toward prosperity in the region.
• Quentinsburgh, Freedemia - As a large city situated in the approximate geographic centre of the Straits of Lyc, Quentinsburgh has going for it many positive attributes: it is a vibrant and diverse metropolis in a very stable country that has endured and prospered through a turbulent history. Another interesting point about Quentinsburgh is that hosting the facilities for the TCC in Freedemia echoes the unity felt between the different people groups during the unification of Free Reedemia to find common cause in spite of their differences.
• Trevers, Paroy - Now I don't know much about Trevers (or much about Paroy at all, unfortunately), but I find that Trevers and Quentinsburgh have very similar stories: they are both well-mapped, developed cities in the central area of the Lyc (sorry Vodeo) that are in very stable and prosperous countries. I think Trevers makes just as good a case as Quentinsburgh in the bid for the facilities.

This is just my opinion, but hopefully it can help us come to some sort of accordance. - Thanks, Zekiel (talk) 07:45, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Should we proceed to voting? Fifafo (talk) 17:55, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Alternatively, we could have the three cities (Catamia, Quentinsburgh, Trevers) share the secretariat duties and leave it to Tito_zz, Ernestpkirby, and PortCal to decide the final details on the map. Chazeltine (talk) 15:44, 28 May 2022 (UTC)