The Kusari Exiles

[Unseelie]

Okay, this is miffing me a bit.

Bretonia is in as much a position to pass up help from the reasonably insignificant force of the Ronin as it so desires.

Its actual military or economic position vs the Gallics -cannot- be described in terms of a conflict of individuals, it is not. It is bound up in the reasonably stagnant emotion of billions, who hate the emporer, and his Kusari.

They hate your guts. Much of the population would rather see you die than have you help, to the point that they'd be willing to starve to see it done. They're not even close to those levels of deprivation, and their military status is, frankly, better now than it was when the kusari were invading. This being the case, I fail to see how you'd get the terms through.


Eh, emotional rant over.

Now, here's the rational.
Gallia has advanced less far into Bretonia than Kusari did, to date.
Bretonia is actually in a better economic stance now than it was during the Tau War, since it has free trade with three, rather than two, houses.
Bretonia is populated by a culture patterned on a very jingoistic, self supporting, pig headed one.

The same way North Korea is willing to suffer starvation rather than give up its stance against America, the west, and the world, Bretonia isn't likely to spread its legs to Kogen.

Kogen ordered the war which led to the deaths of...well, the lore is unclear, but I'd argue millions, and threatened billions. The Bretonian people, a very sizeable portion of whom live on Leeds, and have been purposefully terrorized by the onset of war, hate your guts. Even if the ruling parties were willing to commit the public relations suicide of accepting the bloody bastard with open arms, they wouldn't be so stupid as to pitch it to the population as anything less than an elaborate method at concentration camp (Note that bretonia is modeled on a society that wasn't even particularly opposed to committing such genocides on the savages of Africa. There's rather more vitriol in derisions of Kusari's barbarism than you suspected, I think.)

The point of all this is that I do not, nor do many of the people who identify with bretonia, nor would the populance, care that we need, in cold terms, every gun that bretonia can get. In terms of what we know Vis-A-Vie the storyline, it doesn't make a lick of difference what Bretonia does before Liberty gets involved in the war, and in terms of what Bretonia knows in lore, currently, the material of the Ronin can easily be caputured or destroyed, and one thing Bretonia is in on way poor in is population.

Furthermore, in terms of economy, population is the primary driving factor behind production, which indicates to me that bretonia is not so poor as you suggest. Militarily tattered, perhaps, but also engaging in the greatest military buildup in its history (or was, during the last mod...such things seem to be forgotten now)



And, anyhow, Uhm...NA NA NA NA NA LA LA LA BRETONIA DOES NOT WANT YOUR HELP la la

TL:DR
Zelot, I'm bloody well sick of that rp copout that bretonia's going to take Kogen's help because its helpful. People are not rational.

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