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Geiseric

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  1. Guess what that additional penalty is? It's about 50% of your income. For big nations, that means you net virtually no cash. If you have bad trades, you can actually end up paying more in bills then you collect in taxes. Peace mode is very, very damaging for the NPO; their top 40 collectively probably lose at least 300 million each day. The only case in which it makes sense to hide out in peace mode is if their nations don't have sufficient warchests to rebuild after getting knocked around a bit (ZIed). I am willing to bet that is the case.

    Especially if you screw up their collections with a well placed DEFCON/Threat change operations.

  2. Clearly you need more [OOC] Breakfast Club [/OOC] Anyway if I used every funny quote from our detrators over the last 9 months it'd take up hours. I think those from our DoE were sufficient.

    I don't really like that movie,... it showed me the apprehension of how my school years would be in the following decade. Meh, director's discretion I suppose.

  3. To the NPO's chosen strategy's defense : this is a siege/trench warfare,.... the one who has the most tenacity and patience to keep at it usually the are the one who would win. (Taking into account that both sides are well stocked).

    So I think they're doing everything they can to follow that doctrine in order to win this war.

  4. But manufacturing a CB adds that element of scandal :(

    Yeah, that is also true. Time to get creative then.

    How about we No CB first, then manufacture a CB after they surrendered? Then of course we produce said manufactured "evidence" after the terms are paid. Not only confusing but also scandalicious :awesome:

  5. Vox means "voice" in Latin, so it's just a coincidence. I have no idea what Dei means though...

    Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

    or

    And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness

    Which would then shorten to just Vox populi vox Dei or the Voice of the people is the voice of God which in turn used to justify that popular opinion is always right. The shortened term made me ask if there was a connection.

    Vox populi by itself is just The Voice of the People,... Vox Dei in turn is the Voice of God.

  6. anyone who believes this can count themselves amongst the biggest fools in cn.

    in fact, with the a giant gap in power left behind by the npo, the world is about to get a whole lot more violent, as alliances make power plays to take over the role npo held for 3 years

    Moar Blood for the Blood God? Yay WAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHH!!!

  7. Sparta tried that once. Ask them how well it worked.

    Not so good, you'll deal with rogue none aligneds raiding people from the other sphere, you also got tech raiding alliances living with you on the same sphere, practically a mess. Doctrines such as Revenge Doctrine and Moldavi Doctrine work hand in hand to ensure that you are protected from both (we're talking about the positives here) as an unaligned nation. But then again, it won't be a free sphere anymore.

    I have to mention the Moldavi Doctrine because I think this is one of reasons the NPO could enforce the Revenge Doctrine for a long time.

    Well maybe if you have several large non raiding alliances protecting the sphere by putting a "No Raiding" sign on a sphere, ejects raiding alliances from such spheres, only accept other non raiding alliances in said sphere,... then maybe it'd be a compromise of both. The senate won't be so free (the "whites only club" membership, but you could still have shot on a senate seat on the account of being on the same ideology), but you still provides the protection of none aligneds to supply tech and trades.

    But still there are problems with none aligned rogues raiding other none aligned nations from other spheres,... and that raided none is protected yet by another similar protection doctrine. Especially if there are members of both spheres who shares a pact. Internal chaos begins, hilarity ensues.

    I don't know what will happen if the NPO were a benevolent alliance and stayed out of other people's dirty laundry,... maybe people won't make such a fuss about the Revenge and Moldavi doctrines.

  8. I'm referring to the part where your obligations to the Continuum kept you from having to honor your obligations to Polaris due to the superseding clause.

    Obligations to Polaris? Uh, okay, and we didn't even get to touch them... she said she was 18 though.

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