The Constitution gives Korda one Territory Convention. It does not give its thirty-three delegates one reason for being there.
Dessa Orin is already familiar outside the Territory. She sits on the Assembly's Territories and Fiscal Affairs Committee, co-sponsored the fiscal equalization measure that helped propel Elin Thoss into national attention, and has spent years pressing federal offices over Korda's infrastructure queue. Her public position inside the Convention remains deliberately incomplete. She has said the whole Territory deserves a workable future and has not said which petition provides it.
Jalen Mire represents a lake-corridor district where the canceled merger referendum was not an abstraction. His district had organizers, polling locations, and voters who expected to decide whether their communities should join Kelvant. Mire has not endorsed the merger petition in the Convention. He has, however, objected repeatedly to language suggesting the canceled referendum can be treated as though it never qualified. "Those signatures are not a preliminary draft," he said after the relocation vote. "People did the work the Constitution asked them to do."
Tomas Rell represents an inland district whose residents would not have voted in the corridor referendum at all. His district includes farming communities tied to the same roads and transfer system that whole-Territory petitioners have cited for years. Rell says the Convention exists because a decision about one part of Korda could materially change what remains. "The corridor has a claim," he said. "So does the place left on the other side of the line."
The distinctions are not clean factions. Mire voted to move the Convention into Korda. Rell did too. Orin has worked closely with the Civic Consul and still refuses to say what resolution she wants. Delegates who disagree about the petitions can agree about venue, records, witnesses, and what facts they need before taking a substantive vote.
That is likely to matter as the Convention settles into its Korda sessions. The eventual resolution, if there is one, will look like a single proposition on paper. The room producing it contains several different versions of what Korda is now and what would count as preserving it.