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  3. I have a dream.

    in World Affairs (IC)

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    I agree with the OP. Karma championed itself as the voice of change when the war first began. Now they are trying to dole out the harshest peace terms we have ever seen. Violence begets violence. It's like spanking a child for hitting. Are you really teaching them anything else but violence?

    An old lady drives home slowly in a snow storm. Behind her a young man impatiently tailgates her and flashes his high beams out of frustration. He waits for his moment to pass. He floors the car and whips around her but loses control on the icy road and goes in the ditch. The old lady slowly pulls over to the side of the road. The young man, with his car hopelessly stuck, steps out of his vehicle. The old lady opens her door and tells the young man to get in. The young man sheepishly climbs up out of the ditch and with his head down enters the car. "I'm sorry", the young man says.

  13. Cheers to the New Sith Order

    in World Affairs (IC)

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    Sidestepping the entire "loss or win or something else" debate here.....As a fellow NPO GWI Veteran, I tend to agree with Dopp on that, or that it was at least the proudest time during my time there (which included GWII but not GWIII). If you say it like "yea but you lost" then okay whatever, and maybe it's just something that you had to have experienced to understand why we could feel that way about it. You don't get to see how strong an alliance really is until you see it faced with incredible stress. GWI was certainly the most stressful conflict we were involved in, and it revealed that we were truly and certainly strong in more ways than just our numbers. So, yes, it's quite easy to be proud of that.

    This is why I miss Heft

    Official Policy Announcement from the IRON Ministry of Defense

    in Alliance Politics

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    Your comments are reasonable, but I must disagree on both points.

    1) The idea of the minimum serves two purposes: deterrence and redress. That means either way, IRON accomplishes what it aims to do: either (1) preventing the raid altogether or (2) having a pre-defined policy that allows for quick reparations and, hopefully, resulting in the end of future raiding on the part of the offender against aligned nations.

    2) We're very reasonable. If they can't muster the cash, we're willing to work out some other arrangement; although in my experience, I've never encountered a tech raid from an alliance that couldn't pay $3m in reparations. But for alliances that are capable of mustering the $3 million, we do expect it in one slot.

    We're not trying to be mean to anybody here; we're just trying to make sure our nations are well cared for. And if there is an issue with repayment, we're happy to make arrangements that don't ruin somebody's early game experience. Obviously we can't ask a 300 NS nation for $3m all at once...that's unreasonable and very, very difficult to do.

    I would think in this situation we would take 150 tech in lieu of the 3 million dollars. I can't speak for council but it sounds reasonable to me.

    Happy holidays CN!

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