Waking up to this, what a treat.
But it is Shandryn's opinion, which he emphasizes himself:
Personally I think the only way to actually 'merge' things is to pick the server with the higher population and offer the players on the lower population servers a free transfer - but where they lose their equipment/money/items. (This is just my opinion)
So, who is Shandryn? A random GM. The text is irrelevant.
And you, Shandryn, would be well advised to post on a different account. I presume you have written under your GM name to give weight to your point, as a person with some direct experience in interacting with both communities. You should grasp, though, that, at this point, any official-looking post will be taken into consideration by the plethora of players and guilds weighing whether they should move to Elysium or Crestfall, and that your words are always spread in-game without the "In my opinion" caveat. Tomorrow evening I will hear on TS or read in /world that "the devs' plan for a merger is to offer K1 players the option to transfer naked 60s to K2". By causing such gossip to flourish, you (GMs not involved in the decision-making process) will single-handedly cause some players to stop showing up for raids and some guild votes to go the wrong way.
So you would do us all a great favor if you'd shut up on this topic, in your official capacity as a GM, unless you are actually tasked to deliver an official announcement.
P.S. And to avoid speculation on whether we ourselves are now undergoing a vote on whether to transfer Synced, I will state now that it is not the case; we will do our best to continue on Kronos. Hopefully you will take the sort of decisions which will allow it.