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Daelin Blackleaf
White Rose Society
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Posted - 2009.03.28 14:35:00 -
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Were the Intaki to remove themselves from the Federation they would find themselves a very small fish in an ocean of predators. I'd give it a year maybe two before the system either reintegrates into the Federation for the protection of it's navy, opts into contracts with the state that effectively make it corporately owned and defended, is "reclaimed" by the Amarr Empire, or falls to any of the various outlaw entities roaming around out here.
Even were they able to successfully survive the Empires tend not to tolerate the rise of any truly independent powers in their midst. The Syndicate is a prime example, kept afloat only by it's criminal contacts and Federal ties.
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Daelin Blackleaf
White Rose Society
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Posted - 2009.03.28 17:30:00 -
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 Originally by: Tellnan Matkiel
Reality and practicalities should never cause one to cease to dream.
I know all about having a dream to follow, I also know that a dream can get your worlds bombarded, invaded, and their surviving populations enslaved.
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Daelin Blackleaf
White Rose Society
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Posted - 2009.03.28 18:31:00 -
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Originally by: Tellnan Matkiel
The likelihood - no, the certainty - of violent retribution is no good reason to abandon a dream.
I'd like to think I know a thing or two about that.
But I doubt the average Intaki has a dream of getting killed or enslaved. The worlds of the Empires hang together because otherwise they would hang alone. They support each other because only combined can their economic, political, and military force stand against other similarly powerful groups.
Add that no grouping of worlds can afford to be diminished, nor afford to allow an event such as the "liberation" of one group to cascade into a full-blown collapse of their society as everyone else starts thinking how well they could do on their own, and you have the very same logic that lead to the bombardment of Caldari prime and other such atrocities.
The Intaki don't have the numbers, the unity, the resources, or the military might to pull off a Khanid let alone a Gallente-Caldari-like civil war.
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