Intergalactic Summit

How about she just checks a dictionary, since no-one else is using the Napanii language?

Oh, good grief. No, they didn't.

The Federation Senate caused the chaos when they demanded Caldari corporations turn over colonies whose existence predated the formation of the Federation. It was a naked attempt to seize control of assets that were legitimately the property of the Corporations.

And precisely what am I supposed to be lying about?

I know very well what the Gallente Federation did for us, but we must also look at the Federation's history with clear eyes. Just because they are our allies does not immediately turn them into Sefrims. They, just like us, have their own skeletons in their closets.

Like it or not, the Federation are not Sefrims. They are very much capable of disproportionate retribution. Nice people, usually, but threaten them, take away their creature comforts, and you will earn yourself a very vicious foe, as the Caldari had learnt. If it weren't for the very convenient timing of Colelie (both sides being occupied by the enemies across our respective borders), I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Federation citizens ride the jingoist militant wave and elect yet another U-Nat or advocate military action against us.

You know, you really should listen to Aria.

Everyone loses wars. There was, in fact, no way we weren't going to lose that war. By the time the real dogpiling began, the largest chunk of the Coalition had been fighting a constant defensive war on the behalf of SMA for five solid months. The main fighting strength of the Imperium had had no breaks, no time to recharge. The line was frazzled and fed up with entosis warfare. That made an already untenable situation worse.

The basic problem though, was that we occupied far too large of a footprint. Efforts had already been made to consolidate. Other efforts were underway. A fair number of the outlying alliances, however, saw no benefit in reducing the coalition's footprint. As the war progressed, many of them changed their minds, but not all. As a result, by the time the fight for the M-O Ihub happened, we were sending fleets across three regions to support allies who weren't pitching in for defend anyone's space but their own.

All of this contributed to a scenario where the social fabric of the coalition was rather weakened and stressed, but at no time did we abandon our allies. When Circle-of-Two flipped, that action was planned well ahead of time, and even their top strategic FC, Sebastien Saintfrusquin, openly contradicted the claims that we hadn't supported them. Only an absolutely freak bit of luck prevented the destruction of the LAWN and Bastion supercapital fleets. In light of the resulting strategic situation, there was really no way to win. The best we could have hoped for was a delaying action—to spend our strength holding space for as long as possible.

That, however, would not have changed the outcome in the long run. The one thing unifying our enemies and giving them focus was us. In light of that, clear-eyed assessment of the situation forced us to come to the conclusion that as long as there was something of ours to destroy, the enemy would remain implacable. Fighting would not have actually allowed us to retain our space, and would simply have bled our strength. So we didn't. Instead, we conserved our strength and preserved our combat effectiveness.

As a result, in less than a month, we've secured Delve and are degrading enemy positions in Fountain and Querious. TNT, Bastion, and LAWN are still here, and the coalition is far more unified than ever before. Meanwhile, our numbers have remained steady. Compare that to the experiences of TEST, Nulli (Oh, wait, they're gone), Darkness, HONOR, GClub, and others who've lost wars for their space. Six months to a year in the Lowsec militia warzones doing contract work, trying to rebuild their numbers and their wallets.

Obviously, we'd have preferred not to lose the war. We did, after all, want that space. At no point was that actually an achievable goal, however. All things considered, I'm rather satisfied. Tell me, since you're so critical of it: how would you have looked after the needs of over 15,000 pilots in that situation?

Oh, and one other thing:



You still haven't answered the question. Maybe you should do that, instead of simply trying to deflect and change the subject.

In other words, you've got nothing you can actually point to as me lying, and you have no idea for how you would have done things differently. All you have is invective. All you ever have is invective and posturing.

And yet more invective and posturing. You were warned about the futility of trying to get under my skin. But please, feel free to keep demonstrating my point.

Matar Ronin. When's the last time you played a 4X holo-game? You try to simulate the exact situation of the Clusterfuck Coalition, or Imperium, or whatever it was they are calling themselves these days, with a limited number of active troops and a HUGE territory to cover, and tell me you are able to actually win that kind of war.

I'm interested in Commander Best Practices answers to these questions as well, though I doubt he has any:



Moreover, I'm fascinated by the fact that he's gone out of his way not to answer those questions while attempting to denigrate the questioner. I suspect that the answer is obvious, but every time he answers with insults and condescension, it gets more entertaining and informative. What insults and deflections will he trot out next? I have a side bet with some friends and I think I'll win