Rhyagelle Responds To Absaroke Aggression

Jane DarkMagic wrote: From an outside viewpoint, it looks like a lot is hanging on how Consone responds to rising aggression and Harmless's declaration that breaking siege camps is worthy of retaliation.  From the looks of it they have two options: 1. Let ABSA get destroyed and thus lose any kind of legitimacy they might have had as a confederacy.  or 2. Join the fight and risk possibly getting destroyed, which would only undermine their legitimacy if they lose. As an observer, I am excited to see how it plays out.

Sadly Jane Dark Magic's  assessment is probably correct and shows how a relatively minor dispute over scarce resources has been exaggerated out of all proportion into a potential server wide war.  When reading some of the posts from KP,  Kumomoto, Llyron of Jaensch and Silverlake, which are contained in this thread, each of them seemed to be more concerned with embarassing Consone - by goading them into action on the hand and then threatening them with retaliatory action oon the other. Each of these posts appears to contains an insult -  referring to Consone as "Comsomme" ,  "Consome" or "Soup" .  It is almost as  though they would rather use this dispute as an excuse to attack or embarrass "Consone" ,in a somewhat insulting way, than they would want to genuinely help to resolve the  BsH/Absa/Rhy dispute.

Grego wrote: " Belargyle, Kumo, Llyorn......" We are long enough in Illy to know what each of us stand for. Your morality makes me sick, I can only hope that you don't have actual power in RL. I spent enough time here, met some dear people, which I will miss, but all in all, Illy is same as RL. Most of community are sheeps. I do not wish to initiate major war because of my believes of fairness and justice, so I am willing to resign from both Absaroke and Consone. I just ask you to stop destroying RB, zebazga, Skim Milk, and so many other players who did nothing to deserve beeing kicked out from this game. I will fall on my knees and begg you for it, if needed, just STOP. You can deal with me after

Excerpt from General Kaldorei Sunstrider heading a small detachment of soldiers that rushed in support of Snapdragon from Absa in Keppen

 

I am proud to come to this city of 1PFK as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of 1 PFK. And I am proud to visit Absa lands with your distinguished Chancellor Anderrent who for so many years has committed Absaroke to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow VIC companion, Sloter, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "I am an Absaroker."

I appreciate my interpreter translating my Arran dialect!

There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the RHY/etc… world. Let them come to 1PFK. There are some who say their governance is the way of the future. Let them come to 1PFK. And there are some who say in Illy and elsewhere we can work with RHY/… affiliates. Let them come to 1PFK.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a siege up to assault other people in order to prevent them from helping others. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Great Mountains, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 2 1/2 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for so many days that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of 1PFK. While this siege will prove the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the RHY/etc… system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against our Illy way of life and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.

What is true of this city is true of all Absa--real, lasting peace in Illy can never be assured as long as one Absa city will be and denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 2 1/2 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Absarokers has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of 1PFK, or your country of Absaroke, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Elgea in a peaceful and hopeful world. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of 1PFK can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for too many days.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of 1PFK, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words

"Ich bin ein Absaroker."

 

Edited by Tatharion - 12 Oct 2012 at 10:51

In the words of Frenchman Joseph de Maistre, 'Every nation gets the government that it deserves.'