Intergalactic Summit

I have no wish to hear of anyone being forced into a life of mindless servitude without it being of their own choice and freewill, but then I am Minmatar.

Again with the notion that some vast conspiracy is supporting Nation for economic gains... Lets take a moment to think about that shall we?

Clearly a Nation of cybernetic slaves doesn't need to be paid to work. Clearly Nation, being wholly outside of the SEC and Concord regulation need not worry about license fees, third party production costs, or taxes. And even if the whole of Nation save Kuvakei himself are nothing more than machines, why would a man with armies of obedient machines that can manufacture anything he wants, need money? If Nation consists of mindless augmented lifeforms rife with cybernetic implants and devoid of any semblance of free will, then why would they need money? Why would a Nation as you portray it ever bother to compromise and "hold back" in it's attacks for economic reasons when a Nation that has nothing but perfectly obedient workers and warriors simply has no economic concerns of that sort?

Quite simply you can't have it both ways. Either Nation is nothing but automatons and has no need of money, or Nation citizens have free will and require wages for their work.

So he's dead, gotcha.

"Gone to a better place" is the story my parents told me when I woke up one morning as a kid wondering where my Hamster was.

Although I doubt Kuvakei flushed him down the toilet, I believe the general nature of things is the same.

The same could be true of your vaunted empires, if they cared enough about their citizens to make it happen.

An analysis of Sansha Nation tactics has concluded that they have no resolve to fully carry out threats and aggression made to the capsule community after the interdiction of attacks on worlds in the Empire regions as per the long winded press release.

Statistics show the densely populated systems are avoided by Sansha Nation forces and no empire infrastructure has been been destroyed to limit capsule community operations beyond the annoyance of capsule community mining operations that are mobile to begin with and easily relocated out of zones of aggression without interdiction attempts. The Sansha Nation zone of control in a given system is limited to more of a token force than any real invasion of occupation or system control.

The failure of both Concord and Navy forces to engage Sansha Nation forces suggests an agreement to allow aggression to continue on a limited scale falling short of the reported and expected goals of the Sansha Nation statement of intent. The goal it would seem is more economic in nature to the benefit of Empire corporate entities than any real threat of loss of support infrastructure as would be expected in a real threat.

The capsule community has illustrated time and again the need to limit or eliminate any support for continued operations with the goal of gaining defined objectives. The interdiction of supply routes, removal of station support if not the capture of structures to control systems and supply routes to weaken defense forces, forcing a retreat from positions of control are employed on all levels. Sansha Nation forces have not done any of this.

The failure of Sansha Nation forces to successfully employ these basic tactics illustrates the limited scope and ability of the Sansha organization to both plan and execute to gain and hold an objective to any advantage for long. The Sansha support infrastructure is able to continue production replacing massive losses with a single minded determination but the failure of the leadership planning makes this ability useless in the long term. The ability to gate organized forces to any area at any time is a huge advantage and the quality and types of equipment used beyond what is allowed to the capsule community is not to be underestimated but the poor tactics negate a real threat of long term occupation.

Available data suggests Sansha Nation forces are but a tool employed by others to further an agenda of terror rather than any real military campaign of occupation and control.