Views from a Regent - Intro
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It has been two months since I was tapped for the position of Regent for the New Pacific Order. Entering during a time of war brought with it strange conversations and functions I often wonder if I am sometimes better or worse for. I guess it really depends on the day.
I think what amazes me the most is how much so many of us hold onto the past. I am not just talking about friends and enemies, our even alliance members, I am talking about even myself. I know when I do that and then take a step back I can start to see things I didn't want to previously. Its not a matter of truth or even perception, it is clearly and only a matter of personal interaction with it.
As a general member of the Order, I followed my Orders and built my dislikes based on what I saw and what I was told. I can honestly say more than anything it was based on what I was told. Now we can all jump in and freak out over this with talk of "You should have had your own thoughts". Generally I will agree with you, but then far too often our own thoughts didn't have enough information. I learned this early on in my military career, I did much better in my job if I just followed my Orders and gave it little thought beyond that. Its funny, there is a happiness and bliss even in that freedom of view. However that isn't the complete picture. It is in our nature generally to question and then take the easy approach of just going with the flow. In this comes the hardest part of being a Regent.
I was offended deeply once when I heard someone say early in my Imperial Officer career, "They will believe whatever we tell them." But at the time I was offended for all the wrong reasons. At first I was offended because I was so recently in the shoes of a regular member and thus ignorant. It was later (much later) I was offended for an entirely different reason. I was (and remain) offended because I was never trusted with the input to make a decision for myself. It was in that word right there (trust) where I felt betrayed by this person and an entire ideal of how to treat another person. Certainly as a chain of command goes up information doesn't reciprocate. But that doesn't mean its right or correct.
I learned in this war, not all information can go all the way back down either. There is a happy medium which should be in place and used regularly. In this happy medium there has to be a choice of words; mind you not to skew the facts, but to make sure the intent is understood. When a group deals with double meanings and hidden agenda's it takes a long time to get people to realize that if I say "tomorrow I am talking with so and so" means exactly that and not "tomorrow I will tell you what so and so said". I know that looks and sounds silly, but even in that little difference there can be huge issues of miscommunication. Direct example: An exchange of embassies with another alliance does not equate to friendship with that alliance. Its a meeting place, a discussion place for ready contact (trust me, IRC is not the be all end all of the world people). Also just because I personally talk to someone from another alliance doesn't always equate to NPO talking to YYY Alliance. Its just conversation, regardless of how others conducted themselves in the past, I am a rather simple person.
Okay so why the blog? I return with why not? I have some things to say to the world I don't feel like turning it into a he said she said about war x or time y for 50 pages. So instead I am giving this. You are welcome to take with it what you want. Ask whatever questions, make whatever comments. I am going to do a bit of sharing of what I see in planet bob. Some will be from home (NPO) and some will be about the world.
My next entry will be my thoughts about the war (start), the negotiations and the end. I am going to share this because I have been queried about it any number of times. I am sure by this point I have started to ramble and hell that is fine, its my blog 
I am no Vladmir, nor do I wish to be.
o/
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