Emperor Melson has said that the Bolitic Confederacy needs to change. Recent war losses have depleted the empire he said, and the old culture of endless war was no longer viable. He said that conflicts between houses needed to be sorted out by diplomacy and not mass slaughter of slave armies on a war planet like Smolask.
This has not gone down well in some quarters. One Bolitic Baron is said to have remarked, "He wants to turn us into the Dinos, in helmets."
