|
Attack on Lorrdian Territory
|
|
| Senator_Ordan | Date: Wednesday, 12 Dec 2012, 7:45 PM | Message # 46 |
 Lieutenant general
Group: Users
Messages: 633
Status: Offline
| Senators.
This is getting ridiculous. I've tried to ignore this bit since it's all that we're discussing these days.
Lekpin, how much did that station cost? Billions? How many more are you borrowing and spending from your treasury? Three billion, four? Ten? Now please in the name of all that is sentient give me an answer, I don't give a fig. The point is it's a lot of money.
You're going to spend all this money, amass this fleet.. and then what? Even if you won, you'll make a loss in lives - even if you resell the kit used. Even just the cost of feeding and paying the wages of an army of the sizes talked about, for a world like yours, staggers me. The enterprising Mr Cynum has offered negotiations, but in the background you're mobilizing.
Why not just pay the compensation they demand and get them off your back? I'll loan you the money if you truly can't find credit elsewhere, but while I would lend you money and support for the preservation of peace I will not do so for war.
Lord Bowe has already made peace. Other Lords are in negotiations. Why is Lorrds government not negotiating too, why is it, instead, arming? It's madness, don't you see that? I've seen holo reports coming out of the Auril Sector indicating tens of divisions being raised, of orders being placed for quantities of Durasteel that could outweigh this building.
I don't really have a view on the rights and wrongs in general on the Auril motives or those of Cynum, this may be planetary Darwinism or it may be a man who is doing his duty to family - it doesn't matter.
Lorrd has nothing to gain from war, and it has already suffered huge losses. In the best case scenario if war went on and it was won by Lorrd, it would be decimated, indebted and impoverished. The Lorrdians are not a martial people, they are ill suited in my belief to the pursuit of war, they are passive and peace loving, but none the worse for that.
Thus for the final time I will repeat my call.
Negotiate, pay what needs to be paid and weigh that price against the cost of the price of fighting a war. If you feel it's unfair, grin and bear the load, I must let you know that it is far better to be alive and have difficult circumstances thrust on you than be a corpse strewn across the deserts of Lorrd or the void of space. Weigh the balance carefully before shunning negotiation - for choosing to pay the price of a negotiated settlement should also be seen as choosing to pay the exponential human and fiscal cost of a full scale war.
Senator Hubert Ordan
__________________________
Senator of the Azure Sector
Foreign Minister of Anaxes
Captain-General of the Azure Interest Protection Squadron
Deputy Chairman of the Ethics Committee
Worshipful Master of the Most Loyal and Honourable Company of Blockadeers
Archtreasurer of the Vault of Pols Anaxes
Autocrat of Selgon
Owner of Azure Durasteel
Systems Admiral (Ret)
Order of the Canted Circle
|
| |
| |
| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Thursday, 13 Dec 2012, 5:47 PM | Message # 47 |
 Colonel
Group: Users
Messages: 207
Status: Offline
| The Ruling Houses are in a different position, Senator Ordan. While Lord Bowe has made peace, there is the technical matter that as a province ruler, he is still answerable to the Ruling Houses and Lorrd's government. To put it quite plainly, he made a peace he did not have the authority to broker and short of agreeing to little more than not fighting against the Auril Sector forces, neither he nor any other province lord has the authority to promise more.
The Ruling Houses are open to negotiation, if the negotiator ever arrives. Senator Aurelius is the primary speaker in the brokering of a peace for this matter. Nonetheless, mobilization is the only sensible answer. If peace does somehow fail, should we have sit idly by and done nothing to improve our defensive posture so that some Auril Sector force might swoop down and slaughter us all? No, only a fool would not prepare. It is better to have and need, Senator Ordan, than to need and not have.
We have not shunned negotiation; we are simply waiting for the negotiations to begin.
Roman Lekpin
Representative, Lorrd (11 BBY-10 BBY) (9 BBY-Present)
Chosen of House Garth
|
| |
| |
| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 10:03 AM | Message # 48 |
 Major general
Group: Users
Messages: 285
Status: Offline
| We re-affirm our calls for both sides to sit down and talk this one out. We're willing to guarantee the sovereignty of the current Government of Lorrd, that is up to and including limited military action to protect it's right to rule. Alsakan will not allow the conquest of Lorrd by external forces, but neither will we encourage and abet conflict, as such we will not deploy forces directly unless there is an outright likelihood that Lorrd is being conquered or annexed by the Auril Sector.
In the event that this does come up... the Auril System will be placed under suitable pressure and sanction from Alsakan and it's forces to cause it to withdraw from Lorrd. A full statement of intent regarding the Lorrdian-Auril crisis will be made after negotiations finish, any military action before negotiation is unacceptable.
With this guarantee in place, and it's long term territorial integrity ensured by a world which has repeatedly shown its willingness to stand up to "Planetary Darwinism" and guarantee sovereignty when we've seen it threatened in the past, successfully in every occasion. We urge Lorrd to enter negotiations with confidence in the fact that the people of Alsakan will support and guarantee their worlds independence from outside rule.
Verence Terrawin
Senator of Alsakan
First Lord of the Foreign Office, Alsakan
|
| |
| |
| Hector_Cynum | Date: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 10:05 AM | Message # 49 |
 Major
Group: Users
Messages: 86
Status: Offline
| We didn't threaten Lorrdian autonomy, in fact we have made clear policy statements along these lines.
Commodore Hector "Igor" Cynum
Commanding Officer of the Auril Sector Union Navy
__________________
Shah of the Adega System and Emir of Ossus
The Honourable Union of the Worlds of the Auril Sector
|
| |
| |
| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 10:06 AM | Message # 50 |
|
Major general
Group: Users
Messages: 285
Status: Offline
| The statement stands.
Verence Terrawin
Senator of Alsakan
First Lord of the Foreign Office, Alsakan
|
| |
| |
| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 10:14 AM | Message # 51 |
|
Colonel
Group: Users
Messages: 207
Status: Offline
| I am under the belief that when Senator Aurelius is prepared and ready that the negotiations will begin.
Roman Lekpin
Representative, Lorrd (11 BBY-10 BBY) (9 BBY-Present)
Chosen of House Garth
|
| |
| |
