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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Thursday, 20 Dec 2012, 9:53 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Senator Fitzgerald,
I'm unaware if it was simply hyperbole or words spoke in anger; did you truly fund the Lorrdians to build ships of war?
Who have so recently, brutally and publicly ethnically cleansed a major population segment on the sole basis of religious belief?
Who are at present engaged in a centuries old intermittent internecine war with another ethnic group in their Sector?
Cynum is an ecotistical upstart from the Rim; probably an opportunist who has found a cause he can latch on to. However, they say the measure of a man is by his actions, and I do not believe he has acted poorly in the past (defending Caluula from Cronese takeover during an ethnic uprising), and while he is a blunt instrument, he has no war crimes to his name, no genocides, no history of silencing political dissent with force...
I admit. Both are Bastards, but I fail to see why you would side with the Genocidal Bastards over the Militarist Bastards. Frankly, I think the Lorrdian Government abdicated it's right to rule when it instituted a policy of genocide; and in my mind this makes them an illegitimate tyranny who have broken the fundamentals of the social contract. I believe the forces of such an illegitimate tyranny are legitimate targets for all comers, and thus are if not willing combatants, combatants none the less..
I could perhaps see your point if there was any suggestion Lorrdian Infrastructure, Culture or Civilians were threatened, but Cynum has repeatedly made statements that he will not bring war to civilians. While the Lorrdians are enlisting mercenaries, hired guns, bounty hunters etc in droves.
I can't help but step back and wonder "who are the good guys here", the brash and militarist Tionese seemingly out for the simple joy of battle, or the genocidal and insidious cabal of Lorrdian Lords who are at present hiring hugely dubious individuals, seizing humanitarian ships to be used in warfare and generally conducting themselves in a shocking way.
Either way, the Aegis fleet will deploy a deterrent to any world which sees fit to escalate tensiosns. I really think there's a good chance of negotiations coming off successfully and I must urge you to pressure your debtors to push for peace instead of war.
Yours sincerely,
Verence Terrawin
Senator of Alsakan
First Lord of the Foreign Office, Alsakan
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| Eli_Fitzgerald | Date: Thursday, 20 Dec 2012, 10:07 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Senator Terrawin,
Yes, Verence, we did. It's not out of any love for Lorrd or support of its genocide of the Vianists there. The people of Lorrd have no quarrel with the Vianists; the genocide was an act of Lorrd's government, of which I'm no fan, and which seems to represent a certain death merchant more than the people. But it's those people I'm concerned about. Yes, Lorrd needs to answer for what it's done, but it needs to answer for it in a court of law, man! There's not much that's shocked me in these years since the Clone Wars, Verence, but I'm shocked that you (of all people!) are calling for "open season" on a planet and its people because of the actions of their government. That Mr. Cynum, since he's been a nice guy, can now cut loose and be as bad as he wants.
I'm not going to declare every man, woman, and child on Lorrd a combatant in Cynum's War because their government has already persecuted a considerable number of them. This situation is no different than Dantooine or Monor II as far as Ralltiir is concerned. Cynum's War is nothing more than extortion of the Lorrdian people at the point of a turbolaser. The Empire has abandoned these people to pay whatever "blood price" that Cynum demands of them. This is precisely the reason why planets have an incontrovertible right to self defense.
That said, Verence, no, Ralltiir is not coming to the defense of Lorrd. But I unapologetically support the right of Lorrd to defend itself, and I do call for loud support of Lorrd in this war because silence is so obviously to Cynum's benefit. I don't think he'll be serious about peace unless he's made to believe that this war of his isn't going to be a blue milk run for him.
Eli Fitzgerald
Senator of Ralltiir (10 BBY—Present)
"I was elected to do some flamethrowing in the Senate. To a light a fire under those Senators and make it hot for them."
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Friday, 21 Dec 2012, 11:20 AM | Message # 3 |
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| Senator Fitzgerald,
I think the tyrant Cynum has been quite clear that he never intended to carry war to civilians. And did in fact say so explicitly on the floor of the chamber.
There's patently a difference between "open season" on a people and "open season" on the Government and Military of a genocidal power; as I have no reason to doubt Mr Cynum's word regarding conduct of a possible conflict it seems frankly the only way in which the Lorrdian regime may be punished for their crimes against sentients in the current political conditions within the Empire.
The Lorrdian Government, as you point out is not representative of the Lorrdian people (and indeed seems to serve only a certain dealer of suffering), and has a history of detaining those who oppose it with force. Monor II has a theocracy which demonstrably does represent it's people, and while it's theodemocratic principles lack our modern understanding of democracy, it is a regime which does not commission genocide and does not detain political prisoners for free speech. That is why the situations (in my mind) are fundamentally different.
We support neither side, but frankly it is felt that this is an apt chastisement for the barbarity shown toward innocent Vianist civilians. Extortion or not, it is perhaps poetic justice?
Again though, I'm confident in the progress of negotiation to ameliorate the Crisis and am highly concerned by calls to widen the conflict. We'll use limited interventions to discourage this (as I mentioned) should negotiations fail and the conflict widen. Naturally, we'll also make interventions (diplomatic and otherwise) against either party that carries war to civilians (and I regret bitterly that the real politic of the Empire prevents us doing to to stop the Vianist genocide of Moff Shirnoq and his worlds against a peaceful and harmless religious minority; but my world's Government will not permit open defiance of stated Imperial policy).
Verence Terrawin
Senator of Alsakan
First Lord of the Foreign Office, Alsakan
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