[quote name='Lord GVChamp' date='28 February 2010 - 03:11 AM' timestamp='1267348524' post='2208044']
Respectfully state your objections and develop your alliances to oppose what you perceive as injustice. If you find yourself on the winning side of the war, though, don't impose brutal reps on them, because frankly they don't deserve it.
Here were NPO "terms" to Legion at one point:
Legion admits wrongdoing
Legion submits to authority of an NPO viceroy
Legion relocates to Grey team (none)
Legion agrees to monthly payments in amounts to be determined (apparently 300 million PER WEEK according to Zhadum's post)
Legion shall support Valhalla candidates on the Purple Senate.
You know you're boned when the terms are "you are our personal bank forever." And then all your treaties are suspended.
Want to join a different alliance? Sorry, you get ZI'd for that.
Stuff like this has left a rather bitter taste in my mouth which I think is rather justified, but I don't consider Sparta to be on anywhere NEAR the plane that NPO used to be, and I think it's important to keep that in mind before jumping on the "Hegemony" bandwagon.
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Understand and agreed that our past is awful and we need to learn from it and move far beyond it.
Where I disagree with these terms in light of this past is on several levels:
1. Asking for less reps when no reps at all are justified is still not right
2. Some of those asking for reps, as well as those encouraging them, represent the old hegemony way of thinking
3. Finally, I also recall that the old hegemony started in steps, each set of surrender terms being more severe than the previous,
This is why my volume is so high, when you set down the wrong path, it does not matter how far you have traveled, you are still going the wrong direction.