Not so long ago, we considered the idea of narrative causality - of having Erik replaced as Kaiser as his recwar forces were overwhelmed in the War of the Sightseers.Harald, the recent vote of confidence has shown 100% public support for King Wentworth, he is the people's King where as hesan can't constitutionally even be King and therefore I have more claim to the throne of England than Hesam has to the throne of Bosworth.
Meanwhile, Scott, Bosworth have been saying "Screw this, we're out" for weeks but people still keep posting and here you are still posting what is basically an act of nationally condoned vandalism and theft from a neutral research station. I don't know if King Joe himself is personally on the ships as we generally don't search neutral vessels without cause to do so. If we recieve sound evidence that he is commanding military attacks from Willow then he will be promptly repatriated by the BRAF.
We rejected it.
Erik was doing excellently, you see, running one of the best Kaiserships we've ever had. The recwar had been fun almost from the beginning (we all had some problems understanding what Hypatia's Mom was doing when she seemed to overreact hugely to Erik's initial "attack", but after that it was all consensual and a great time for all involved). By maintaining the separation between fantasy and government, we could both have some recwar fun and keep the nation running excellently.
Now, this separation has always been a little bit fuzzy, yes. We've had our assassinations and annexations-by-war and various other things that have straddled the line, but we've done them *only when we've had consensus*. Whenever there's been genuine disagreement in Shireroth, we have chosen to solve it not by overrunning the other guy with fantasy troops, but sitting down and working the issue itself out together.
*We can't depend on the rest of the world understanding this*. Shireroth has been around for ages, but Jeremy never was a citizen. He hasn't been taught this way of thinking. We know perfectly well, being Shirithians, it's nonsense to say we're subjugating someone else with military forces. Do the people who are considering themselves subjugated at the moment understand it, too?
Just consider what Jeremy said. He went from "gtfo, I polled our citizens and none of us want you here at all" to "besides, you're looting our imaginary research base" in one breath. Does that sound like he's maintaining a separation between fantasy and government the way we know it should be maintained?
While I'm at it, consider the recent Imperial Decree #285. Consider the *entirety* of the King Hasan I of Bosworthl thread. Are *we* helping the Bosworthians take it easy and not take the recwar too seriously?
Every moment we spend pretending we're bullying Bosworth, Bosworth is actually considering itself bullied... and getting more and more of the world to agree with them that they're being bullied.
As always, everyone involved has done a great job on the battleground itself (rkprcg gung V qba'g npghnyyl ernq erpjne guernqf irel pnershyyl, ohg url, V qvq ernq gur fhzznevrf naq fxvz fbzr bs gur pbagrag, naq vg qvq ybbx vagrerfgvat), and I know I'm in no position to make demands after having contributed not a single post myself... but with respect, I suggest that either:
- we do what Ardashir said. Take the interesting plotlines to Shireroth, screw the rest.
- we explain to the Bosworthians in detail that no, the whole declaring-Hasan-king-of-Bosworth and all the related stuff was actually a figment of our imaginations and if we ever made it seem any other way, that's just because we expected you guys to play along because we're used to everyone doing exactly that in Shireroth. Also, we open a thread where we throw away the imaginary baggage and explain what I've been trying to explain in this post so far.
Malarbor demands more attention!
