Believe in Federation. Because it is easier.
17 Apr 2020Lennard Wakefield
It's easy to call Empire's ambition - obsession with wealth and vanity, it's practicality - cruelty.President Zachary Hudson has famously stated : "We may not fire the first shot, but we will fire the last." Fine words to stir the fiery hearts of the patriots. While it was in-fact - federation that has fired the first shot before the battle of Archenar in a desperate attempt to control. Because of the Empire's refusal to join their cause. While using an accusation of intentional genocide to lubricate their agenda. Isn't mongering a war of subjugation goes against the very definition of Federation - the joint collaboration of free will for the greater good of the whole? If anything, the only takeaway from the president's strategically curated words is that the feds are not capable of being honest with themselves. But it was effective nonetheless. During my travels, I have come across many Commanders who parrots President Hudson's quote with spark in their eyes and sees the Empire as Barbarians to their Rome.
Because it is easier to believe that they are standing on the righteous side, in the comfort of not having their own ideologies challenged. And I do not blame them. The discomfort of the idea that what one has been upholding for generations is nothing more than a facade can be something so suffocating but also easy to avoid, by just shutting off doubts and beliefs.
Because it is easy to paint a faction with colours when there's certain keywords attached to it like Slavery, vanity, and, genocide. Freedom, Unity, Federation.