[Discuss] Strategic secessions (was:Re: Life without a Judge)

[Talita CS]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote:

>  > Also - how are colony takeovers seen, when the colony is to be
>  > friendly to the mother realm?
>  > Question being: would the whole discussion be void if we had merely
>  > started a CTO instead of regularly TOing it?
>
>  There would be no problem with creating a colony and allying with it. Colonies
>  are the product of the parent realm, specifically performed to create a new
>  realm. Why would a realm deliberately create a new colony that was intended
>  to be hostile toward it?
>
>  IMNSHO, if you had always intended to create a new realm in Kazakh, then you
>  should have performed a CTO. By taking the city in a regular TO, you
>  demonstrate that you want the city as a part of your own realm.

I'll take it as a Yes, then.

Honestly, I don't agree with all the "this is a classic strategic
secession" you have been saying, but I do agree that we should have
done a CTO from the start, just to avoid this conversation. The
secession was agreed upon in Fontan only because people went tired of
arguing and noticed we wouldn't stop any plans on their account.

I dare say that the long diplomatic discussions after the colony was
formed would not take place publicly, just as the ones inside the
assembly.

Talita


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