[quote name='Schattenmann' timestamp='1321469975' post='2845579']
CoJ doesn't do compulsory treaties; we didn't even sign a protectorate treaty when we were founded. Compulsory treaties remove decisions from the alliance, cutting sovereignty. If I ever find an alliance that I will send CoJ to defend no matter what, whether I want to or not, then we'll merge, it would make more sense than just signing on to do something without knowing the circumstances. Unlike most other alliances, CoJ is an alliance with instrinsic ideologies and beliefs, and those principles guide our actions, not paper. Rather than create a situation of subservience or assumptions or of half-assed minimal efforts, our stance creates a partnership and a relationship with the other party, it forces dialogue and understanding, and independence of action and thought.
Despite these beliefs on treaties and military partnerships, CoJ has never declined to activate a treaty in the past. In fact, I think if you were to ask NPO, they'd tell you that the ODOAP wit 64D we activated in the DH-NPO War was more useful to them than the MDP they had with Legion.
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I respect that. That's somewhat outside the norm, however, hence my remark.