After the return from the Second Swarm, Ailan Mac'Kean, Denen Toen and Shaley Nara meet with Shinder Salan, to think about the future of the New Trykoth. They create a working group to draft a new tryker constitution. Pending further elections, they decide to form a triumvirate of which Ailan Mac'Kean would be the representative and therefore the official Governor.