Entry posted by Adrian LaCroix
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Will people stop bloody throwing this term about every time someone sneezes? MK et all are not some sort of new hegemonic power with its tentacles in everything, controlling the world. You can see this in the Athens/Ni! incident and the aborted Worst War Ever; that particular side of the web is not at this time strong enough to absolutely impose its will on the rest of the game, as the treaty blob that formed around Q was once able to do. I'll grant you that they may possess such power when the dust settles after this war, but I somehow doubt it.
Beyond that, they are not "just as bad as us," as some of the members of the former hegemony assert (this argument is perhaps one of the more puzzling floating about the Cyberverse); they haven't had much chance to be so. The Karma War saw a number of alliances get off easy, and a number of alliances get fairly heavy reps, but one instance does not a proper sample make. The end of this current war will give a far better indication, provided CnG and co end up with enough leverage over TOP and co to enforce their will in whatever terms they so choose. Again though, I somehow doubt this will be the case.
I had other points, but they've flown into the ether, as my train of thought sometimes does. Enjoy the incoherence.
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