Kijuna

How can I help you, ma'am?

Suck me. Suck me dry.

You make a lot of assumptions in this that I think are wrong. First of all I don't think the karma phenomenom, in which a massive coalition forms to counter an aggressive move, will be a common thing. A lot of things led to Karma. Second, you should know well that the hegemony will not seek to re-establish itself through open war but with backdoor politics. Third, if anything, this war shows harsh terms WORK, Karma is full of alliances that were spared and given terms they could recover from. The alliances that got harsh terms and I mean harsh terms like Legion, GATO, NADC, \m/, etc are either disbanded or joined their attackers.

They're allied to Valhalla so why do you expect them to be smart or make sense?

What was done? For most alliances the "degree of culpability" you're bringing for their actions is either allowing them to switch to the "good" side with no penalty or a brief war they can rebuild from. Maybe NPO will really get punished, but I expect everyone else to be back above pre-war NS in the near future.

From the alliance who got the terms? Yes. Who was the last person bullied by GOONS, \m/, GENMAY, Legion, etc?

Time to give Pacific the lower case p? Congrats Polaris.

Karma is about to kill the concept of responsibility in CN. The irony is that they think their revolution will bring about restrain, mercy and compassion. No. The Pax Karma will be one in which all leaders know no matter how horrible their acts they will face no consequence. If all you have to fear is a brief smack to the face which you can rebuild from swiftly, a stern talking to (or slap to the wrist) so to speak, we will see levels of cruelty and abuse of power never before seen. Before all moves have to weigh national/alliance interest against the potential consequences, the ironically named Karma coalition is bringing about an age in which people no longer face consequence thus leaving them to behave in a purely self-interested way. Scary future...