Thread:Charles Murray/@comment-4960835-20151217190407/@comment-25309944-20151218164115

Ecoraptor3339 wrote: I can agree with much of you analysis (and yes, I aware of the system you speak of). Speaking of which, the Lanat themselves have also been isolated for an even longer time than we did, mainly due to inactivity (mainly the Waptoria did constantly message around even outside Mirus but had little interaction with mayor powers).

On that note, the Lanats and even the Xonexi where also self-contained until recently. The Lanat have been maintaining a balance with the United Mirus Council whom formed a pole of their own, and the same was largely true with the Xonexi against the DCP. Each of these poles have had, until recently, an opposite pole that canceled each other out, effectively shattering Mirus into three independent regions that each did not influence one another (which is actually just what happened XD).

There is one last point which continues to bug me. Aside from France, the Xonexi have colonised the Miruys Galaxy only faily recently in function of the Great Xonexian Shism and barely antything else. Aside from that, they saw Mirus as a rim regio, just a marginal piece in a greater conflict. As you stated, France did not have it's own Mirusian bureau until after the Second Coalition War. Since they saw it as a rim regio in the larger picture of the Great Xonexian Shism, it was never their intention to actively interfere with inner-Mirusian politics unless the galaxy as a whole would side with the Civilisation - so how (aside from assuming an utter Mirusian backwardness) would they have been a meaningfull gravigational center for the galaxy's politics pre-Coalition Wars?

Great point; Two things.

(1) As I mentioned earlier, the poles are very uneven which is what make the system as a whole very unstable. The poles changed in strength depending on the situation and intergalactic events. (2) Xonexi did not see it as a priority for diplomacy. This, effectively, meant that none of Mirus' interlocking parts were talking to each other as you pointed out. That means that we're left to measure their interactions in a Cold War-like setting, as opposed to direct actions. The question of deployability becomes important here. In order to measure strength, you not only have to measure how much military power a single nation has in the galaxy, but how much military power they can -potentially- deploy to the Galaxy. This is why the Lanat remain so powerful even up until 2802: they can call in the CyraEmp as allies. Xonexi is similarly powerful, given that before the outbreak of war with the DCP, it could have deployed most of its 28-nation alliance to Mirus if necessary. The potentiality is important there, and I assume that Mirus waited to attack for so long -because- it wanted those 28 nations to be tied up fighting the DCP.

I hope that makes sense?