Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26429365-20190414055740/@comment-6707115-20190528043934

I do wonder what the power dynamic would be though since not even Count Saazbaum tried extinguishing the Imperial Family line, since that would likely result in the Aldnoah completely failing. So that means that so long as the Imperial Family is quite small, they're immensely important, though at the same time so long as Asseylum has an heir, she can be replaced in a coup. This goes whether or not the heir is of her own body (whether by the younger Klancain Cruteo or not), or if she's somehow barren, then Lemrina & whatever line she could produce would be important for whatever Aldnoah civilization to function (since the bastardy doesn't seem to count against one's status in a small Imperial lineage). Though I doubt that Princess Lemrina would ever consent to a marriage arranged for her unless it happened to be to Slaine. So Lemrina would likely be hanging like an obvious Sword of Damocles over Aseylum's head as a third faction. While I do think that a disgruntled group might attempt to marry Lemrina to one of their own so as to topple Asseylum, I wouldn't be surprised if Asseylum, Klancain, or Mazuurek at the instigation of Inaho or the Earth Gov. attempted to force/pressure Lemrina into a marriage to a Count who's politically aligned with them. To be honest, even if Slaine is in favor of trying to make that peace work, I doubt that he'd approve of such coercion against Lemrina even if Asseylum got behind it (to be honest, I wouldn't put it past Eddelrittuo to go behind help Lemrina escape such a situation without Asseylum's permssion).

As for main antagonists, there's always the possibility that some anti Aldnoah group might arrise that believes that Aldnoah only brings trouble, &/or that it'll only lead to the Vers bloodline eventually taking over. So they might attempt to sabotage the peace, & then kill the Vers family so as to collapse the Aldnoah system. Or perhaps they might try to go to wherever Asseylum & Lemrina's grandfather first recieved the blessing from that preceeding alien civilization, & attack the source if they believe that would work to achieve their aims.