MK Hegemony: Why it must fall
The New Pacific Order and the Continuum fell from power over two years ago. The Karma War gave the game a much needed victory over an alliance and a power sphere that needed to fall. Of course weasel alliances like ODN jumped ship at the last second and never got their fair share of Karma, but all was well and good in the Cyberverse. It was nice to finally see the two year hegemony of Pacifica finally fall.
As expected, a new hegemony took Pacifica's place. At first it was called "Super Grievances", because of the strong SF-CnG connection in 2009/2010. Now we live in the era of Doomhouse and Pandora's Box. To make it easier, I will call it the MK Hegemony. Why? Because just like NPO in 2008, the Mushroom Kingdom is thought of as the central alliance of the hegemony whether they like it or not. The MK Hegemony has lasted more than two years already. This is roughly the same amount of time the NPO Hegemony were in power. Many will dispute that you can't compare MK's and NPO's time in power because Pacifica used reps such as viceroys and forced disbandments. That's all fine and dandy, but I am not here to compare MK and NPO. I am here to show you why the current MK Hegemony must be defeated. Enjoy and have fun arguing.
1.) Highest Reparations
a.) Echelon(Karma War) - People will argue on whether NPO deserved their record-setting reparations for Karma, but the terms Echelon received were an embarrassment to Karma and everything it was intended for. Was Echelon a close ally with NPO? Yep. Did Echelon betray their allies in Polaris and BLEU in WoTC? Yep. Did they deserve the harsh reparations they received in Karma? No. Lets take a look at the money/tech reps for a second.
1. The following reparations will be paid by Echelon for instigating the war and the damage caused thereafter:10,000 technology and three jars of jam to GOD
300 million and 7,500 technology (Aided in packages of 3m/50) to MA
10,000 technology to MK on behalf of GR
1,500 technology or money equivalent, at an exchange rate of 3 mil per 50 to Athens
5,000 technology to TTK
1 technology to R&R
Obviously when I call the current power the MK Hegemony, this doesn't excuse the others who have participated in this hegemony. One of the main perpetrators is obviously Xiphypoo, GOD, and their Super Friend allies. As we all know, Xiphy has an odd fetish for high reps and that like. It came as no suprise that his alliance extorted 10,000 tech from Echelon. This once again showed his high reparation fetish. I'd go as far to say that if Xiphosis joined NPO when he first joined the game, he could very well be the Emperor of NPO right now or at least in high gov. He has a thing for a high reparations, he is known as very loyal, and he knows how to play politics. Seems like a perfect Pacifican(circa-2007/2008/2009) to me! Speaking of Xiphosis and his SF buddies, former Super Friends alliance Monos Archein also participated in the high reparations galore of Echelon. $300,000,000 and 7,500 tech. Surely a fair price for the evil that is Echelon. Jumping off Super Friends for a moment, lets look at the CnG alliance Greenland Republic. "10,000 technology to MK on behalf of GR". How nice of GR. Taking a chunk of Echelon's tech to give to the Karma alliance who preached the end of high reps. How very Moralist of MK to accept it. "What comes around, goes around".
10. Should Caffine1 rejoin Echelon he is permanently banned from holding any government position within the alliance.
As long as it's not secret like the secret terms given to Polaris in WoTC, it's okay!
b.) NPO(Karma)
These reparations are perhaps the most controversial ever given and accepted in the game. Did NPO deserve the highest reparations of all time that included the following: 350,000 tech, $10,000,000,000, cancellation of all treaties, military decommissioning, ban on nuclear weapons, and a few other harsh reps. Hmmmmmm. I thought Karma was supposed to be the end of these kind of reparations? I suppose people bring up the excuse that NPO deserved to pay these reparations. I guess that could be right. However, the recent DH-NPO War has already put a stain on these terms. When NPO signed these terms and when the peace agreement was announced, it was thought of as the end of NPO's Hegemony. Clearly MK and those who fought in the recent DH-NPO War thought NPO needed more damage and destruction inflicted on them. Karma and the reparations NPO received didn't end the revenge that MK wanted against Pacifica. Obviously this means that the reparations NPO paid out from Karma didn't close the book on Karma. MK and their buddies could just keep attacking them whenever they wanted to because they still hadn't fully achieved the revenge against Pacifica. So why call the Karma War the Karma War, if it wouldn't end the revenge against NPO?
c.) TOP/IRON/TORN/TSO/DAWN(Bipolar)
As much as it pains me to write on how MCXA(TSO) was wronged, they and their allies were wronged. I'm not going to get into talking about the Bipolar War. That has been debated to death and it usually ends in a generic Crymson vs. Grub fight. I am here to talk about the reps of the war. This is where the hypocrisy of the MK Hegemony starts to play in. As we all know, TOP and their allies laucnched a pre-emptive attack on the CnG bloc. MK had a right to be outraged. No one is debating that. Did TOP deserve the high reparations they and their allies received? Well, in total TOP/IRON/TORN/TSO/DAWN had to pay over 300,000 technology. At the time I can see how this can be thought of as fair. No one had really used pre-emptive war on the scale TOP did, so the terms could be fair if you think about it that way. What really make these reparations look like !@#$ is recent DH-NPO War. Doomhouse lauched a pre-emptive war against NPO, like TOP did against CnG. This automatically throws away any credibility the Bipolar reparations had. MK did the same thing to NPO what TOP did to them. Good job MK!
d.) Dark Templar(PB-NpO)
Once again we have to go to Xiphy and his Super Friends. The DT situation was one of stupidity from the beginning. Because DT stayed in the war for oh so long , CSN demanded 40,000 tech from the medium-sized alliance. The funny thing is that Xiphy apparently helped create the terms. How surprising! In the end, they only had to pay a miniscule 20,000 tech and also had to apology to Liz....even though she acted immature in the peace negotiations.
e.) NPO/"Hopeless Coalition"(DH-NPO)
The Legion, The Phoenix Federation, Regnum Invictorum, Cult of Justitia, The Sasori Initiative, 64Digits, Sanitarium, NADC, and SNAFU, (Henceforth referred too as Team Rocket) shall pay $2,427,000,000 to The Goon Order of Oppression, Negligence, and Sadism.
Heh. So I guess the mighty GOONS war machine didn't too so good compared to MK and Umbrella. Guess that "everyone attack GOONS" strategy worked then. Either way, GOONS got their $2,000,000,000. Did they deserve it and did the above alliances deserve to give it? No, though I guess DH won and could do it. Meh. Most thought these kind of reparations were over but spoils goes victor I guess. What really is the worst part of the terms is:
Umbrella, The Mushroom Kingdom, GOONS, The Federation of Armed Nations, Nordreich and the New Pacific Order & The Phoenix Federation will engage in a limited war.
Listen MK, you attacked NPO for no reason and you get whatever they give you. If they give you no high NS nations to attack than so be it. Deal with it. The damage NPO received in this "Limited War" is far worse than any mildly high conventional reparation agreement. I don't have any problem with FAN/NoR btw. FAN had a right for war and NoR just helped their ally.
2.) Stagnation/Stale
The MK Hegemony is stale. It has been two years since it has been the dominant power sphere and like the NPO Hegemony, it really is time for a change. Does this mean NPO will take over once more? Hell no. Some have this odd fantasy that if MK falls, NPO will regain power. Here's the thing....what if Sparta or MHA became the dominant power? What if Polaris became the new power? I think it would be a lot more interesting to see someone new other than NPO or MK/PB at power. Two years is enough and another MK victory in a global war would likely put them in an even more dominant position than NPO a while back. Unlike NPO, MK and their relationship with their allies are more based on friendship and loyalty. CnG won't leave MK behind like MHA/Sparta did in the final days of the Continuum.
3.) Length of wars
This is really the main problem on why we only see three or so major wars a year now. Ever since Karma, the length of wars has skyrocketed to levels where it takes multiple months or even more than a year to rebuild. NPO was held at war in Karma for three months. TOP/IRON/TSO/DAWN/TORN received over two months of full scale war with MK and their CnG allies. The "Hopeless Coalition" fought for over three months Doomhouse and Pandora's Box. NPO and Avalon fought for four months. The destruction that these multiple month wars cause in unprecedented in the game. In a time of declining membership, you would think that we ease off the harsh reparations and lengthy wars. This, in turn, would allow us to rebuild faster. Rebuilding faster would give us more wars. More wars gives the game more drama and more fun. Is it just a coincidence that these multiple-month destructive global wars have caught on when MK has been in power? Perhaps. The fact of the matter is, is that these wars must stop and the MK Hegemony must stop with the harsh reparations. White peace or "grey peace"(not re-declaring and surrendering) is the way reparations must be used from now on. Do you have to send white peace right away? No, but the MK Hegemony must stop with the high reparations. This is causing these lengthy wars. The VE-NpO War ended in a fairly reasonable amount of time because the reparations were for the most part(excluding the Xiphy/CSN reps) fair.
4.) Conclusion
I'll make this quick for those who don't feel like reading. Why should the MK Hegemony fall? Because reparations are the highest they have ever been at, MK has been in power for two years and it is getting stale, and wars last multiple months which prevent more wars which causes everyone to get bored. That's why.
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