Weird Harold wrote:n7axw wrote:None of this is really true for the League. The League, whatever its faults, is not running a police state, ...
What would you call the OFS Protectorates and (to some extent) the Shell Worlds?
We really don't know anything about Core Worlds except for Beowulf, but the Mandarins' meetings and plots read very much like the Committee Of Public Safety's and/or the Legislaturalists' meetings and plots.
In terms of member worlds, the reason for the mucked up constitution to start with was that the founding worlds didn't want the League messing with their internal affairs.
I believe that state of affairs has continued. In fact we would need textev the other way to suggest to the contrary. The worry that the Mandrains express that there could be other plebicites forthcoming would pretty much confirm that they don't have Legislaturist or Committee of Public Safety style control.
Yes, the League is running a police state in the protectorates and in some of the nominally independent systems where OFS has their puppets. But those worlds weren't the subject at hand.
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