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by evilauthor » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:48 am | |
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It's probably inexperience on their part with the current situation, but I'm moderately surprised that no one brought up the idea that "joint" ventures with the Church of Charis like this might lead to non-violent reconciliation down the road.
It won't happen of course, but I would have thought the idea would occur to someone. |
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by phillies » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:51 am | |
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One could imagine the ecumenical outreach to include a specific invitation to negotiate details, the obvious invitation to Charis being for one of God's Holy Warriors who captured Clyntahn. In that case, the interesting scene happens soon. |
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by phillies » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:53 am | |
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Give them a few chapters. |
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by Kael Posavatz » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:43 pm | |
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That presupposes that it stays non-violent. To paraphrase Frank Miller: "This is Safehold!" (of course it isn't going to stay non-violent. We aren't out of our first month and they're already skipping right to 'burn') |
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by Robert_A_Woodward » Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:32 am | |
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Is there something wrong with those western provinces other than being a near-uninhabited wasteland that will take a generation to rebuild? ----------------------------
Beowulf was bad. (first sentence of Chapter VI of _Space Viking_ by H. Beam Piper) |
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by runsforcelery » Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:02 am | |
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Hm. Thought I'd already replied to this post, but apparently I lost it somewhere. So, to reiterate . . . Tum-Te-Tum-Te-Tum "Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead. |
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by Annachie » Fri Aug 17, 2018 3:55 am | |
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A sorceror's apprentice tried to use magic to help farm the lands and caused a major flood? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You are so going to die. :p ~~~~ runsforcelery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ still not dead. |
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by isaac_newton » Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:13 am | |
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Smaug?? |
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by elaineofshalott » Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:42 am | |
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If I recall at the end of AtSoT Stohnar was thinking what a mess it was going to be when the Temple Loyalist population decided they wanted to return to their property. Especially with most of their surviving neighbors being victims of the inquisition's death camps. And some of those returning individuals might be guilty of atrocities themselves. Considering how contentious the right of return is in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I find it unsurprising that something bad is going on there. |
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by thanatos » Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:48 pm | |
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The Right of Return and the Palestinian refugee problem is a consequence of several factors that have worked against the resolution of their particular problem. There were many groups of refugees both from that region and other both at the time (1948-9) and since, yet all of those refugee groups have been resolved and are no longer refugees because they fell under the UNHCR, which has a very good track record on resettling refugees. The Palestinians conversely have had their very own refugee agency (UNRWA) that sadly has not done much to resolved their refugee status. This is due to Israeli refusal to contemplate any actual Right of Return to Israel proper, the Arab League's refusal to allow resettlement of any Palestinians within their members' territories, the Arab governments' use of the Palestinian refugee problem as a political club to beat Israel (without actually caring what actually happens to them) and the Palestinians unwillingness to accept any settlement that does not include an actual Right of Return. As a result, they are the only group of refugees in the world for whom refugee status is inherited (and now has 4 generations of refugees). So the Inner Circle would have to know about this issue - Hopefully that particular conflict will be resolved by the time the Gbaba wipe out the Terran Federation (though the cynic in me is not so sanguine). We now know that Rhobair Duchairn had been willing to pay the Mighty Host for 6 months until finally resettling its 2 million men and the families of its officers in the western episcopates of the Temple Lands. It stands to reason that Siddarmark might have insisted at the very least on financial compensation for the Sword of Schueler, including all the debts the Temple repudiated, as the first step towards so sort of reconciliation with the Temple. However, many of those refugees in the Temple Lands are probably guilty of murder and other crimes that were perpetrated at the Temple's behest. As such, guaranteeing their safety for the Sword's survivors was always going to be a thorny problem. The most they could hope for would be trials and investigations yet proving their guilt would be a problem as well. As such, the Temple may have had no choice but to foot the bill for their resettlement in the Temple Lands as well. Then again, RFC has hinted that something is amiss in Siddarmark's western provinces that may have something to do with those refugees. |
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