A Pacifican Salute
Entry posted by Bob Janova
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This week, one year on from a time at which the Karma war was still raging on at least some fronts, the last act of that war was played out, as the surrender terms placed on the NPO finally expired with their last reparation payments.
At around ten months, that makes those terms some of the longest in history (though the GPA had to put up with indefinite terms and were released after a similar period), and as was well publicised, the reparations were the largest ever. Pacifica managed to avoid some of the least popular of the terms it laid down to others during its time at the top – viceroys, economic improvement and wonder decommision, forced changes of government – but it did have to send out very large amounts of tech and under the same limitation of who could send it as the Polar Order before them. It is good to see the Bipolar terms no longer using that restriction.
It was widely expected that the NPO would suffer large membership losses, as so many alliances in war and surrender did – and indeed, during the war itself, around 200 nations decided it wasn't worth it, but they were replaced with new recruits. Through the peace terms, though, they have held together well, planned their exit strategy and now, as we see them execute remilitarisation and a re-entry into the political arena, even we here in Seria – frequently opposed to the NPO and its actions – must congratulate them and say: 'Welcome back, NPO; enjoy your day in the sun'.
It seems that certain groups all around the political world are trying to push the treaty web back into its old 'Karma vs Hegemony' mould, a task which is made easier by the NPO's friendships – carried over from the old Hegemony as might be expected, with the exception of NSO – and by the loss during the war of the two semi-independent power centres (Citadel and Frostbite). It is to be hoped that those all around the web don't just fall back into the same old ways. Let NPO and other alliances of all sides find their feet and interact with them for who they are, not who they treaty themselves with.
[OOC: Bet you never expected a pro-NPO post from me 
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