Thread:Charles Murray/@comment-4960835-20151217190407

It looks good overall, but there is one point which is being missed and which could work upsetting for the natives if denied. That point is the Enlightenpent Alliance.

Simply put, the Enlightenment Alliance has been slowly rising ever since the Lanat Empire declinced, however they only gained a huge boost after the collapse of the Drakodomintus Tyranny, at which point they seemed poised to take over as the dominant power in the Mirus Galaxy. After the fall of the Tyranny, Mirus really wasn't as fractioned and cometing the the French would have you believe; instead, it was divided into two blocks of power: 1)The Zarbania-IoW Alliance and 2)The Enlightenment Alliance, which was (and still is) a very mayor power in the galaxy, and one to be reconned with at all times.

The Enlightenment Alliance would in effect have become the dominant power of the Mirus Galaxt and have created a Galactc government (which is their goal in Mirus) if two unforseen factors had not gotten in their way: 1) Tyrómairon. 2) The arrival of the Xonexi Allies.

If you woudl take these two points into account I would be grateful.

There is a very simple reason for the non-involvement of the Alliance in the Coalition Wars. It's most mayor member states where at war with the Xonexi Allies and they could easily have thrown in the other member states who (going trough their pages) seem to support the natives as well. Yet they didn't, for the reason that they knew a loss was possible. By having the Enlightenment Alliance not go to war, the Mendel/Waptoria created a failsafe to fall back to if they would lose - The Alliance was officially not involved in the War, and thus, it would survive an eventual loss intact since the Xonexi would not be given a reason to attack it - and an attack, indeed, hasn't happened (just as planned XD).

The mayor Mirusian powers of the Enightenment Alliance might have been damaged but it's extragalactic/minor owners have not. These states could give relief, and given how they probaly must have delivered weapons ect to the Mendel/Waptoria, their eceonomies could have undergone a wartime economic boom (I'm thinking of something of WWII USA here on a more numerous but smaller scale). Given their general non-involvement, the Enlightenment Alliance has come out of the Coalition Wars relatively unscathed with no damage to governmental structures. The Covenant of Mirus is signed but how is it going to be effectiely become the accepted galactic government if the Alliance -a far older organisation- is still out there, and also claims to fulfill the same role?

The effective implementation of the Covenant, it would seem to me, can only happen if the Alliance is sifficiently weakened.

The Sovereign Mirusian Coalition was internally fractured; the Enlightenment Alliance does not suffer the same problems as it's member states have already gone trough mayor war-formed bonds - and are more of a miror to the Xonexi Allies in that regard than the Coalition would even pretend to be.

It is easy to see how the natives could use the Enlightenment Alliance to put themselves back into a position of power by involving the Alliance thuis time. Of course, things will not go that easy, as the Imperium will hit the Alliance and they will hit them hard. This will severely weaken the position of the Alliance and will allow the Coalition the opening they need to assert their claims.

But thinking in advance, the Xonexi will need to be carefull when doing so. The Enlightenment Alliance, however weakened, still has it's prestige and allied networks (the Mou'Cyran Accords for exemple). If the Xonexi rush things they will only create a security dilemma - two mayor power both claiming hegmony never works out well, especially if they are in each other's sphere of influence as the (native-led) Allliance and the (percievedly Xonexi-led) Covenant are. 