Can we get real...

[Grumblesaur]

Local internal conflicts do not equal a defensive war.

But honestly, what would Discovery be without an ongoing war somewhere? When Liberty and Rheinland fought, there was activity in Bering, Hudson, and the nearby house systems. When Kusari fought Bretonia, the Taus and the old Dundee system had skirmishes. Gallia vs Bretonia and Gallia vs Council running simultaneously was a [thus squandered] possibility for a fascinating three-sided conflict -- a rare, but attested phenomenon. Even the ongoing Imperialists vs Federalists conflict in Rheinland is generating activity. It gives characters purpose, which gives players things to do.

So what if Bretonia were to fight another war? Perhaps a small proxy war, characterized by guerilla strikes and the taking of prisoners, between them and a group of revolutionaries trying to wrestle control from the recovering house fleets. It doesn't have to be an all-out brawl like it was with Gallia, but to let Bretonia lie fallow will do nothing for the game.

If you don't want to fight another war, what do you want to do? The many capital ships flown by Discovery players these days are not diplomacy conference rooms -- they are engines of siege and conquest.

Every faction needs struggle and conflict, unless you want to end up like the Zoners, who have battleships and colony ships and planets but nothing to use them on except for massaging their "neutrality".

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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.