evilauthor wrote:Vinea wrote:I was always curious why the Writ didn't try to make warfare stylized into combat between individual warriors/champions as opposed to battles between militaries...I'm of the opinion that wars and military rivalries have been one of the drivers of technology...
Wouldn't they want to try to nip that one in the bud?
That would last about as long as it takes for people to realize that they can pretty much "cheat" without consequence (or at least without divine retribution) by simply bringing more buddies to a fight... which would be about as long as until the next school yard spat.
IOW, warfare done only by champions would be completely unenforceable.
The War of the Fallen would just be the final nail in the coffin.
The main reason was that no one thought too much about it, and the reason they didn't was that Langhorne and Bedard, like good Marxists, expected "the state to wither away" once it was no longer needed. That is, once all other technology had been discarded, they expected the final enclave to discard
it's tech and disappear into the eternally non-technic society they had created. And, that being the case, no one would be around to enforce that decree with divine wrath if it was was violated, which would make it a virtually certain failure point for the structure they were building.
Obviously, there were some changes in their game plan after Armageddon Reef, and then the War Against the Fallen came along with even angels and archangels fighting in groups and as an organized force, not individual champions. What else might have been going on under the surface and behind the scene deponent saith not.