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Viktor Korimyr

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  1. So... Now What?

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    The punishments for those who fought on the Hegemony sign was rarely ever proportional to their involvement. This war was never about any sort of "justice" or principles of any kind. It was simply a war. That's it. It couldn't be about justice, or else several of those Karma alliances, such as Sparta, MHA, Gremlins, TOP, and FOK, and others either formerly in the Continuum or allied to it, such as the Superfriends, would have had to answer for what they did while benefiting from the Pax Pacifica.

    Can't speak for the coalition of alliances that called themselves "Karma", but karma is not the same thing as justice. Karma is the turning of the Wheel. Whether they were "punished" for the "crimes" they committed as allies of the NPO and as members of the Continuum, they broke ranks and scattered-- and now, they will never stand shoulder to shoulder again. The NPO is no longer the most powerful alliance on the face of Bob, and they have lost many of their allies; everyone who has fought in this war, Karma and Hegemony alike, has been bloodied in the fighting and whole nations have been swallowed up by the battlefields. And already, schisms are forming between the former allies on both sides of the war.

    The Wheel has turned. The old order has been broken, and a new order is forming from the rubble. Is that not what we were fighting for?

    Now, it only remains to be seen what the shape of this new order shall be. Most of the players will remain the same, but the one thing that I am certain of is that the game will be different. Players have shifted sides, and the powers behind them have decided that we will be playing by a new set of rules. Those rules may not be fair, they may not be just, but they will be different. And when the tyrants of the new order grow complacent, they will find that they too have old enemies with old scores to settle.

    Now that the Wheel has started turning, there's no force in the world that can force it stop. It will continue turning until it wears itself down and finds a new resting place.

    That's karma. And that's really all we can ask for.

    Personally i learned a lot about my own alliance. Firstly, that i was not... erm fully aware of everything that it was doing over the last year or two. Some of this was not very good. Secondly that the alliance was far stronger than i anticipated, i was concerned, like others were, that we had an entire generation who had never known defeat, but they stuck together admirably.

    You gentlemen fought a Hell of a war, and you have every right to be proud of it. As for the prior conduct of your alliance... I don't know much about that, and I care less. I fought because you and your friends declared war against me and mine. Judging by the war you fought and your conduct in defeat, your alliance is going to be just fine.

    I also learned that the cliché 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely', appears to be true in CN. A stern talking to may have been required, bankruptcy is another thing entirely. And most alliances will act like bullies as soon as they get the means.

    Half of the nations that make up Karma, or are even sympathetic to us, are complaining that the terms of your surrender were too lenient. The New Pacific Order's finances and organization are legendary and the reparations you are paying are nothing more than a temporary obstacle in your reconstruction. When you are finished with the terms of your surrender, you will still be among the most powerful alliances on the planet-- and you will have regained much of your political and military power shortly thereafter. Neither the damage you suffered in the war or the terms of your surrender are the worst losses you've suffered by far; the worst loss has been the disintegration of your alliances, and that occurred at the very start of the war.

    I don't know who you think is bullying you, but I assure you that it could be far worse.

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