Despite always being one step away from anarchy the Bolitic Confederacy has always remained a cohesive political unit even if its leaders spend most of their time trying to kill each other (and the rest of the time thinking of ways of killing each other). However over the reigns of Aliowaki and Borca there was a noticable shift of population away from the core worlds to elsewhere in the confederation with powerful barons for the first time having their bases on outer worlds and not just on Castarian.
This means that some barons are staying out of the war of succession on Castarian to decide the new leader. A group of barons on Relia Magnus and Delos 3 are remaining in their territories. A major reason for this of course is the huge losses of the fleet which means that barons based on outer worlds can't get their forces to Castarian but it is thought that this is only partly the reason why they arn't getting involved.
There is even some talk of a breakaway union of barons based around the powerful houses of Lords Mokai and Depson and their satallites on Relia Magnus.
