The central cause of the issue is that Swordfell was created for us to all play together and create something new and fun, as we designed it, only to have a foot come and kick over our sand castle.
Everything stems from that.
No, the issue is the fact that the Morekian portion of the colonists refuse to accept the Lurian colonists as equal members. Your character made promises that you turned right around and broke. That's where Sevastian got his ire raised. Since he got protested out of office, he has been far more mellow. But you wouldn't know that because you aren't someone he communicates with.