User blog comment:The Usual Thinker/Which side did you choose and why?/@comment-80.216.219.11-20120224110744/@comment-80.216.219.11-20120225102812

Yup, thats pretty much it yeah.

mede the 1st blackmailed his way to being Emperor, by pettily occupying the capitol til the council was forced to name him Emperor. But the Legions should never have accepted it.