Carl formally proposes making unaffiliated NPCs a protected Faction Wars team with regeneration and full voting rights.
Noflex demands recognition for NPCs who otherwise serve as expendable chaff. She wants a distinct tenth team, equal safety protections, regeneration for its members, and a vote in faction governance.
Carl sympathizes with her position and values its disruption of the sponsors, even though he originally sent her to rally NPCs for his own faction. He submits the action item and adds full voting rights at her request. U56KL opens voting despite Tagg's assertion that the proposal cannot alter the game's nature.
No vote concludes before the meeting explodes. Rishi later offers a weaker compromise: NPC invulnerability and a safe exclusion zone in exchange for ending the attacks. Carl doubts Noflex will accept.
A tenth glowing faction wedge appearing on a nine-team war table, filled with diverse NPC silhouettes.
The proposal turns NPC autonomy from a security problem into a formal constitutional demand.