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TGW-906

Chapter: The Dance
Characters: ambassador Palas, Capt Chardis, dragonflys, elise, king rexx, malana, Taritha, tarra, Teresa
Location: king Rexx office, Teresa's office
└ Tags: a solution?, planning no hoping

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Discussion (10) ¬

  1. Jochi
    February 23, 2022, 20:48 | # | Reply

    More like “hoping for it” and “prepared for it”. We had other, less
    optimistic, eventualities planned for as well. No, we don’t need to
    go into those.

  2. Bill Mullins
    February 23, 2022, 20:51 | # | Reply

    I would disagree with his majesty. I see it as being less that the
    empire was counting on King Rexx requesting to join the empire
    and more that the empire was hoping for a beneficial (and
    profitable – to all parties) outcome. None of the parties by
    themselves – including the Wolf Empire – is likely to be able to
    defeat the core worlds in an all-out slug fest. It is only by uniting
    that they can make a war with the fringe worlds too expensive for
    the core worlds. Wars are hard on trade. Direct combat related expenses
    aside, war, by adversely affecting commerce, reduces the amount of tax
    revenue available. This is actually a biblical principle. The Carpenter’s
    Son, in the Gospel of St Luke put it like this, “[S]uppose a king is
    about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and
    consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one
    coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will
    send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will
    ask for terms of peace.” War (as so many here are all too aware) is
    extremely expensive both in blood and treasure. Even a ruler who is
    unconcerned about a war’s cost in blood will be concerned about a
    war’s cost in treasure.And if he forgets the merchants will
    damned well remind him.

    • Jochi
      February 23, 2022, 21:06 | # | Reply

      Rules of Acquisition:
      34 War is good for business.
      35 Peace is good for business.
      45 Expand or die. (Same as 95)
      76 Every once in a while, declare peace.
      It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
      And one I was speaking in the spirit of last strip:
      90 Hear all, trust nothing.

      • Jochi
        February 23, 2022, 21:12 | # | Reply

        There is a corollary to 34: only from a distance,
        the closer to the front lines, the less profitable it gets

  3. Jochi
    February 24, 2022, 12:17 | # | Reply

    Boy, the events in eastern Europe make it really hard
    to not comment on real world politics right now.

    • Petercat
      February 24, 2022, 14:13 | # | Reply

      Eh, go ahead. I’m pretty much sick of everything anyway.

      • Jochi
        February 24, 2022, 18:02 | # | Reply

        I was just floored by the puffed-up icon of Führerprinzip with
        Little Man’s Disease saying he was “de-Nazifying” Ukraine.
        I can’t stomach hypocrisy, even when it isn’t getting people killed.

      • herekittykitty
        February 26, 2022, 23:59 | # | Reply

        Woe. All the papers are still drifting down through the air.
        When I think of how all the recent wars were started I grieve.

  4. me
    June 3, 2022, 16:55 | # | Reply

    So he did not tell her about the double?

    If you’re a leader of some kind and your advisor start to protect you from the truth, it’s time to find new advisors.
    Or you’d risk ending up like Nicolae Ceaușescu … “you can’t execute me! Everybody loves me! There must be a mistake” …

    • Petercat
      June 3, 2022, 18:05 | # | Reply

      She was on the cellphone right next to him when he was discussing it.

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