The members of the German Confederation's Federal Assembly were already familiar with the whole process of bringing a colony into the Confederation. It was more or less the same every time: some family in Texas discovered that they had German blood in their ancestry.
After enduring unfair treatment for a long time, they finally crossed the ocean to Europe, driven there by sheer desperation. Then, by chance, a member of the Assembly helped them reach the Federal Assembly, where they recounted their ordeal and pleaded for the Confederation to send troops to reclaim their homeland.
Ever since Old Kuldre had denounced the Confederation's inaction before the Federal Assembly on Christmas Day, 1842, and then successfully reclaimed his homeland after triggering the Luxembourg Crisis, countless people had wanted to follow his example.
King William IV of the Netherlands, Boers' leader Andries Pretorius, Louis Philippe, and Leopold I, the Grand Duke of Belgium, had all succeeded. Now even the Texans were getting in on the act.
Luxembourg had already been a member of the German Confederation, and Old Kuldre understood politics, public sentiment, and the way the tide was turning.
Though nationalists had forced them to take part, the various states hadn't been strongly opposed to the Luxembourg Crisis.
The Dutch, the Boers, and the Alsace-Lorrainers could at least be broadly classified as Germans. And Leopold I, the Grand Duke of Belgium, had at least been born into a legitimate German noble family.
But what the hell were Texans? Some American speaking mangled German with a French accent? The German Confederation's delegates were completely dumbfounded.
There was no helping it. The actor they'd originally prepared had suddenly come down with the runs, and the understudy happened to be stuck on the road. With no other choice, they had to put the Texans