And this may seem an alien concept, but merely being somebody's enemy is not an obstacle to respecting them, nor is it a reason to slaughter them. The Federation absolutely are the State's enemies - we're at war with them after all - but the relationship is a strange one, fuelled in some part by mutual respect.

We're only bitter enemies if we choose to be, and on this matter the Provists have chosen they wish to be myopic black-and-white thinkers who think that the only emotion to feel for an enemy is hatred. I'm proud of my people that most of us are able to have a more nuanced dynamic with them. We can be enemies without descending into murderous loathing.

This is not a war. It is law enforcement.

Barely three hundred years ago, the idea of even one space station, let alone one capable of supporting a population in the hundreds of thousands, was pure fiction.

Nowadays we can comfortably describe such a thing as "average" or "everyday". I called it a "backwater" not too long ago (my apologies to anybody who calls Haatomo home, of course).

No observation, I just find it amusing that we can classify a city-sized orbital jammed full of Planck field generators and capable of warding off a coronal mass ejection with contemptuous ease as "ordinary"