the Zoners

[Unseelie]

Yes, Jammi, I did mention Canaria in another thread. So does that give Bretonia grounds to find it and perform a hostile, military take-over? I think not. If they do then they are no better then a common criminal nation. Nazi Germany comes to mind taking over European nations "because they could."

I think, perhaps, you misunderstand Bretonia's conditions. It is already fighting a war, a losing war, with a more powerful house, in the hopes of holding on to a planet that no one will be able to live on for decades. They have three livable planets. One is feeding all of Bretonia. Another is the capital, and a third is a planet wide factory. Rhienland has five populated worlds. Liberty has five. Kusari has four. Bretonia has three. Bretonia's largest social problem is overcrowding. Planets are the most pressing issue in Bretonian politcs. The only criminal group in bretonia (considering mollies their own nation) is soley interested in defending planets. If you suppose Bretonia wouldn't seize a sparsely populated, fertile, and livable planet which is sitting in its back yard, you really don't understand Bretonia. Bretonians are interested in the good of Bretonia, not their international image. Seizing that planet is well in the interest of Bretonia.

Moreover, I'll forward the thought that, since you suggested it exists, if Bretonia didn't already know about it(which I have explained is ridiculous in numerous places) They would have found it. It wouldn't even consume much of bretonia's energies. Just a footnote in some planetary intellegence agency, a few men, maybe a few hundred, a few hundred million paid to bounty hunters, Zoners captured and tortured...And, suddenly, the Crown would know. But, I'm asumming they knew about it. Otherwise, Holiday betrayed the biggest zoner secret in that thread. And I don't think diplomats are that stupid.

Bretonia is based on Brittian. Victorian brittian, for that matter. I'm sure someone can provide me with numerous examples of Brittian seizing territory 'Because it furthers the interests of the empire', and the natives be damned.

EDIT:
Furthermore, you said this:

To invade a Zoner home planet, the only one they have, would draw more enemies against a house system than it would anything else.

Which implies you're hoping your friends will come help you. Who's going to be drawn against Bretonia, if not the friends of the Zoners? The neutral parties? I suspect they might try to get a peice of the Zoner pie, too.

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