Intergalactic Summit

The difficult takes years. The impossible may be a little longer.

I'm aware of the justifications on both sides. They're irrelevant since that was not the point I wished to make.

I just do not understand this queesiness that foreigners have with being the aggressors. This idea that you are only justified if you are the defender, and so all effort must be spent on proving that you are in fact, defenders instead of aggressors. It is the sort of thinking that leads to such absurd things as false flag attacks on one's own people.

War is war. It should be honest and open, with clear demands and win/lose conditions. Admit what you want, and do what you must to achieve it.

In the south war, I understand more the matari who say 'we come for our people' than the ones who try to argue some senseless idea about how the Day of Darkness never really ended and we never really ended that war because slavery still exists and so that makes some kind of modern-day justification for ignoring treaties signed by Republic leaders because the Republic is still under hypothetical attack and must defend itself or whatever else. It is all senseless befuddling of something that is not complicated. The matari who do not care to be the aggressors, the ones who know they broke treaties and simply don't care, those are the ones that are the most understandable, and the greatest threat.