Three days after the Joint Monitor Council determined that Korda's two certified petitions must be addressed together, the Civic Consul did the one thing §15.5.a(3) actually requires of her office: she convened the Territory Convention. Thirty-three Assembly delegates, all of them representing Korda districts, now carry ninety days from their first session — set for Month 12, Day 9 — to produce a resolution the certified petitioners have been waiting months for.
Her statement, filed with the notice: "The Constitution requires this Convention to convene, and it is convened. What the delegates decide is theirs to decide."
That is the entire statement. It does not endorse whole-Territory statehood. It does not endorse the corridor merger. It does not say what happens if the delegates fail to agree within ninety days, though the notice itself does — both petitions lapse together, and neither can be reinitiated under the same scope for three years. Thoss said none of that either. She said only what the office required her to say.
A Delegate Who Also Said Little
Dessa Orin, delegate for a Korda district and one of the thirty-three who will now sit on the Convention, has spent this year's fiscal equalization fight as Thoss's own co-sponsor. Asked whether that made today's notice feel different arriving from her, Orin's answer was as guarded as the Consul's own:
"I've sat across a table from her plenty of times this year. This isn't that table. She convened what she's obligated to convene, and I'm one of thirty-three people who now have ninety days to do something with it. Ask me what I think the Convention should decide, and I'll tell you the same thing I've told everyone else who's asked — not yet."
Whether "not yet" means she genuinely hasn't decided, or has decided and isn't saying, is not something this paper can determine from one guarded answer. It is, at minimum, consistent with how she has handled this entire year.
What Ninety Days Actually Means
The Convention is not required to produce anything. If it deadlocks, both petitions lapse together, and Korda continues exactly as it is now — undivided, with the corridor's grievance and the whole-Territory grievance both unresolved, and a three-year bar on either side trying again the same way. Thirty-three delegates who represented sharply different constituencies four months ago now have to find something all of them can live with, or watch the whole question close for three years by default.
Nobody outside that room knows yet whether that's possible.