(12-02-2023, 10:15 PM)jammi Wrote: It's also worth noting that the Order and Corsairs aren't allies either, and haven't been for a very long time.
If the standard right now is that shared tech only happens between really close allies, the Murmillo is a giant wedding ring. Even when it isn't, the Osiris is an Order staple and the foundation of all their other capships, they gave that out under alliance, not under "Order and Corsairs aren't allied". The Outcast-Core and Order-Corsair alliance has been set in stone since the Core arrived on the scene and decided to be direct rivals with the Order. Outcast and Corsairs fight, the Order and Core fight, and because the Core fights the Corsairs for territory, the sides of the equation balance themselves.
Any side trying to do anything other than that ends with a 3 on 1, plus the nomads which is unreasonable for the non-hispanians to survive.
(12-02-2023, 10:05 PM)Implosion Wrote: Furthermore, Core lacks the numbers to do any real damage on it's own. The Corsairs are an empire that has much more ships and manpower than the Core. The Core cannon achieve much on it's own, hence, being the opportunists we are, we try to cash in on the situation.
If this is the story we're going with, then Core and Order will have to rely on the respective Hispanians for just continuing to be allowed to live here, Core from their lacking numbers and manpower, and Order from the long winded problem that is settling in Akabat's "erratic climate that strongly relies on its and Nebet's orbital cycle" after Toledo happened. Core not being able to do any damage on its own and all the alliances that were there being thrown out the window means Core's going to get stomped out by both Hispanians and Order and cease to be. Or it means that Core has some incredible plot armor that allows it to live through this situation, which would mean it can achieve much on its own. Or it means that you're bsing a way to do what you want without consulting what was already there and why it was there. Crazy how that works.
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