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Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#41 - 2013-02-27 20:41:51 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
Stitcher wrote:
Clearly the only solution is to migrate Home into State space via a giant wormhole array.


It would be easier! But, seriously, there can be co-existence in the system, just a few concessions on both sides and we can have peace, even cooperation.


Agreed. Maybe when the Leviathan has been there another five years without incident the Federation will overcome it's fear and we can hammer out a lasting solution.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#42 - 2013-02-27 20:44:56 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
So in order to bring the Federation to the negotiating table all we have to do is impeach our leader and take away the only thing stopping you from re-invading the planet again?

That seems fair. /sarcasm


The only thing keeping the Federation from re-invading the planet is CONCORD.

I was about to add the Yulai accords in the equation, but apparently respecting them is not so much fashionable these days.
Desiderya
Blue Canary
Watch This
#43 - 2013-02-27 20:52:08 UTC
I like to think that the price they'd have to pay for the planet has an impact as well.

Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#44 - 2013-02-27 21:23:04 UTC
I like to think that that price goes both ways.

I also like to think that only extremists on both sides do not really care or actually secretly wish for it to happen.
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#45 - 2013-02-28 06:05:55 UTC
The only thing that makes the Leviathan a workable threat is the belief that, if called upon, it will be used.

So, I beg you, set aside the idea that the crew will not send it straight to Gallentia to fire upon the largest visible city the moment a Federation task force is seen to be preparing an attack. Failing that, it will fire upon the largest concentration of Gallente citizens on Caldari Prime.

This is not a matter of extremism, it is a matter of ever being taken seriously again, if our bluff is called and we fail to act.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Desiderya
Blue Canary
Watch This
#46 - 2013-02-28 11:27:07 UTC
Lyn Farel wrote:
I like to think that that price goes both ways.


Of course it does.
If our hand will be forced to act then I think that there's likely not one soul in this strikeforce that'll hesitate.

Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#47 - 2013-02-28 13:44:58 UTC
the fact is that one lone Leviathan, even with navy-grade systems and modules, is not exactly going to slow down any kind of a serious assault. FedNav have more than enough Erebuses (Erebi?) to turn any lone capital ship into an ecological disaster in seconds.

Certainly, Gallente Prime is sufficiently well defended that the Leviathan (and I really wish we at least knew its name) would be unlikely to accomplish anything should it assault that planet other than raining from the sky in little flaming bits.

Its status is purely symbolic. I don't see how it poses a credible military threat at all, which makes any speeches about the danger it poses pure rhetoric.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
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