Your arrogant self-importance is complicating your perception of what is a very simple matter. - Charles E. Gannon

Stupid creatures tend to be stubborn creatures.

So what you are characterizing as conspiracy is merely an unfortunate coincidence.

I do not disagree with you, Bannor Rulaine. But in my culture, when tradition is challenged by law, the law is often twisted, construed, and reconstrued until it can be made to conform with tradition. I believe your word for this is teleology: where a result is decided before the process debate or discovery is initiated.
O'Garran snorted. "Fancy word for saying, 'they're going to have it their way, no matter what.'