Slitherine

Each captured objective gives your faction one Legacy point per turn for the rest of the game. These are assigned basically in a random fashion based on some game factors. However, if I have some crappy objectives far from home, here's what I do. I use the diplomacy screen to contact their owner faction. Then I "Relinquish Objective" for that region, which usually has 100% chance of success. Hopefully, I'll get a better replacement objective from the RNG gods. Once I had three in a faction right next to mine and I got them all. Good luck!

If you're feeling extra mercenary, you might even manage to get something for it.

I just had this happen, while trying to give up several objectives that I did not want. So there is a downside to this tactic.

Ouch. Never had that happen before. 719 legacy lost?!

That was like one turn's worth of Legacy. I'll probably just pound them into dog food.

Sounds to me like that messenger had a bit too much to drink before he delivered that message.

From what I can piece together, Parisii was sovereign when I sent the proposal, but then became a client state. I guess that the algorithm couldn't handle it.

So I crushed them and their Protector.