For the first time since voting to bring its remaining work home, the Korda Territory Convention met in Korda this week.
The session was held in the Territory's existing Assembly chamber and was more procedural than decisive. Delegates received an organizing update from the newly formed Joint Committee on Transition Facts, approved several administrative adjustments required by the relocation, and adjourned without a substantive status resolution being introduced.
That leaves the central question exactly where it was before the delegates arrived: the Convention has not yet decided what it will recommend.
The change was nevertheless visible.
Seats previously occupied in a temporary federal meeting room in Verentum were filled beneath the same roof where Korda's ordinary territorial legislature conducts its work. Members of the public filled the available gallery space before the session opened.
Joint Committee co-chairs Jalen Mire and Tomas Rell told delegates that information requests authorized at the committee's organizing session are now being transmitted to relevant federal and territorial offices.
Those requests cover the subjects already contained in the committee's mandate: transportation and freight capacity, fiscal-transfer records, and estimates of transition costs that could be relevant under more than one possible Convention resolution.
Neither co-chair offered an interpretation of what the eventual numbers are likely to show.
Mire said the committee's job was to make sure “people arguing about different futures are at least arguing from the same ledger.”
Rell, speaking immediately afterward, said agreement on facts should not be mistaken for agreement on what to do with them.
“That was true when we formed the committee,” he said. “It remains true now.”
Dessa Orin, who declined a committee chair when the body was formed, confirmed that she intends to submit material concerning Korda's fiscal relationship with the federal government. She did not say when that submission would be made and declined to characterize it as the beginning of a formal proposal.
No delegate moved to open debate on a whole-Territory statehood resolution, a corridor arrangement, or any other final disposition.
The absence of such a motion leaves the Convention with substantial work ahead and its constitutional period still running.
The relocation itself does not reset that clock.
The Supreme Court stay temporarily stopped the Convention's active-day count, but that stay has ended. Three active days had already been credited before the pause, leaving the Convention's remaining period to run from the resumption of proceedings.
The Joint Committee's separate thirty-day target for its preliminary compilation is an internal working date. It does not extend the Convention's constitutional period.
For Korda residents who had followed the first sessions from a distance, however, this week's most noticeable change required no constitutional explanation.
The Convention is now arguing about Korda in Korda.