Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-5496489-20151108071955/@comment-25309944-20160325192513

Not to mention that if Xonexi were to participate in the galactic government, they would be bound by the same laws and restraints as the Mirusian powers. It's a two-way street, balanced by the fact that France's Mirusian policy relies on strengthening the Mirusian position rather than driving them into the ground, giving them agency and legitimacy rather than forcing them to become subservient.

There are definitely proponents of the former policy in France and Xonexi at large, and Alexandre is having to defend his trust in Mirusian integrity before a large segment of his supporters. In this context, it is possible to undermine his efforts through intransigence. However, given that Xonexi has been at peace for six years and is currently not in a war, Mirus might regret forcing France to fall back on a military policy.

As things stand, Mirus stands at a crossroads: it can appropriate France's ideology of self-determination, sovereignty, stability, intergalactic law, and use it against Xonexi. In the realm of ideas, they have a serious claim to self-governance, to self-determination no matter what their military situation might be. In other words, they can engage with Xonexi on equal footing. If this were to devolve into a contest purely relying on military means, the outcome is far less certain and much more likely to incur unacceptable costs, especially with the CyraEmp lying in ambush just over the next hill.

@Eco : Right, the borders of the FDT is the dashed red line. The territories depicted on the map are the home territories Cyrannian added to the map a while ago.