Resignation
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:36 am
To clarify, I'm not blaming anyone else for my own actions. I'm explaining why I took those actions, which was to give the Osiran community what it wanted -- a direction for the raider-imperialist path that the community has chosen. As I already said, I did believe those actions were what was best for Osiris at the time in light of what the community wanted Osiris to be.
The area of disagreement that I can no longer support is that chosen path. I don't think it's in Osiris' interests to be an imperialist region, or indeed in any other GCR's interests, and perhaps not in the interests of any region besides those that are already established imperialist regions. The reason for this is because the established imperialist regions don't treat new imperialist regions as equals or as allies, but as competitors whose inferiority must be demonstrated or as colonies whose obedience must be guaranteed.
I'm not blaming anyone else for declaration of war against Lazarus, though many people -- yourself included, NES -- were enthusiastically in favor of it, and twelve people voted for it without any coercion or even campaigning on my part. I'm certainly not blaming anyone else for the termination of relations with regions that attended the Regional Sovereignty Conference.
What I'm blaming imperialist regions for is the way Osiris has been treated since it decided to pursue this raider-imperialist path. Imperialists have never treated Osiris as an equal or an ally, but rather as their pawn and trophy. They have sought to dictate with whom we can and can't agree to non-aggression, with whom we can and can't agree to mutual defense, with whom we can and can't engage in hostility, and even to whom we can and can't give credit for our own military operations. Meanwhile, they have left us out of important interregional events and provided lame excuses for our exclusion. We are, essentially, Lazarus before the PRL. We are the trophy on the imperialist shelf, and Balder is the region that imperialists take seriously as an equal and an ally. All Osiris is, to the imperialist sphere, is a slightly more active and significantly more unruly replacement for what Lazarus once was to them before the imperialists of the NPO decided they didn't want to share their sandbox anymore.
Regardless, I have no illusions that Osiris' path will change. I'm speaking my mind as an individual after months of holding this back and I'm well aware that it won't have any actual effect. As a result of my mistakes for over a year, Osiris will remain under the thumb of imperialists for the foreseeable future. I've accepted that as reality, I'm aware there's nothing I can do to change it (having already tried) -- but I'm not going to stick around for it, and I'm certainly not going to continue advancing it as Pharaoh.
The area of disagreement that I can no longer support is that chosen path. I don't think it's in Osiris' interests to be an imperialist region, or indeed in any other GCR's interests, and perhaps not in the interests of any region besides those that are already established imperialist regions. The reason for this is because the established imperialist regions don't treat new imperialist regions as equals or as allies, but as competitors whose inferiority must be demonstrated or as colonies whose obedience must be guaranteed.
I'm not blaming anyone else for declaration of war against Lazarus, though many people -- yourself included, NES -- were enthusiastically in favor of it, and twelve people voted for it without any coercion or even campaigning on my part. I'm certainly not blaming anyone else for the termination of relations with regions that attended the Regional Sovereignty Conference.
What I'm blaming imperialist regions for is the way Osiris has been treated since it decided to pursue this raider-imperialist path. Imperialists have never treated Osiris as an equal or an ally, but rather as their pawn and trophy. They have sought to dictate with whom we can and can't agree to non-aggression, with whom we can and can't agree to mutual defense, with whom we can and can't engage in hostility, and even to whom we can and can't give credit for our own military operations. Meanwhile, they have left us out of important interregional events and provided lame excuses for our exclusion. We are, essentially, Lazarus before the PRL. We are the trophy on the imperialist shelf, and Balder is the region that imperialists take seriously as an equal and an ally. All Osiris is, to the imperialist sphere, is a slightly more active and significantly more unruly replacement for what Lazarus once was to them before the imperialists of the NPO decided they didn't want to share their sandbox anymore.
Regardless, I have no illusions that Osiris' path will change. I'm speaking my mind as an individual after months of holding this back and I'm well aware that it won't have any actual effect. As a result of my mistakes for over a year, Osiris will remain under the thumb of imperialists for the foreseeable future. I've accepted that as reality, I'm aware there's nothing I can do to change it (having already tried) -- but I'm not going to stick around for it, and I'm certainly not going to continue advancing it as Pharaoh.
