Shifts in powerplay bedammned, slavery MATTERS! -
Temporary uses of anarchy AMONGST revolutionary process, has been used inside Utopia and along the Kumo border before, but almost always only-when a plan to replace any with something else ... ANYthing else, has been lined up or long-term planned and mutually-assumed between different leaders or schisms that argue of priorities.The rare exceptions have almost always been when a faction created and led by Pilots Federation commanders, has been created in essentially an anti-authoritarian spirit, of individualism, freedoms, and a healthy cynicism about authority and power, or more specifically in human-history, the CONCENTRATION of it.
i.e. What is meant, by the expression ' too-much power in the hands of too-few '.
Indeed, it is a naive or arrogant power or authority, that dismisses the value amongst cynicism-towards power and authority, whether that cynicism comes from philosophy, religion, or lessor sources, in some, the most simple of social-reactions, to harm done to the individual by the state.
What can be equally naive, however, is what the (true)anarchist then tries to argue is supposed to facilitate order, instead of some kind of government that claims the role of authority-over the trying, but failing, organisation of even static, usually unifed people. Not only within idealised communities does conflict still occur, and someone will need to step in, to prevent further harm, but it is utterly delusional, to ignore OUTSIDE influence, upon, any society or population, in terms of protection.
So while some forms of governement are better than others, in terms of distributed-power, meaning power is LESS-centralized, LESS-concentrated in the hands of a few, there is a limit, to how much authority can be removed-from government, before it ceases to mean anything, becomes a contradiction in terms, or loses coherence or purpose.
That basic acceptance of criticism, to accept that any true government is to a degree a power-OVER the individual, has been, with or without, Utopian transcendental technology, literally bridging the gaps between minds, denying the tryanny-of-distance, and helping people to literally think-together,..
... something that has been a acceptance of a LESSOR EVIL, for millenia, and no amount of idealism is going to change anytime soon.
It is not borne simply out of rationalisations-withOUT reason, of those in positions of power, and the advantages that brings, it is also borne out of experience, with what an abscence of authority-over the individual, CAUSES.
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It is in that context, and far more so in less philosophical terms and more practical terms, proximity to the Kumo empire and all the terror and hypocrisy it brings in it's supposed 'protection's, of blatant self-interest guised-as-independence,.. that Utopia and other powers too of course, have for a long time, rejected their claims of independence, seen-through the temporary charade of their gun-at-your-head diplomacy, and on many occasions, proven, that such immature fantasies of continuity of freedom-from authority over the individual, can last for ever.
Butch Peter Pan's they may be, thining they can last forever, but dwindling in their blatancy of immaturity, as a Galactic Power, and either always-failing to-understand the BASE role of government or-to outright anti-social-complex reject mutual-social-obligation of a social-species,.. they are also.
( assuming they of course can at least comprehend that they ARE still human, at least for the time being, should some cybernetic-nightmare be unleashed and they become less-than! )
And so the other GPs (galatic powers) had a choice, and the desperate within the Federation made their choice, mid-counter-Emperial pressure, and here we now are.
Utopia's rejection of piracy and anarchy stands aside from the Federation and Empire wars, and the UAAO in no way wishes to disrupt that, nor risk agitating ex-Hudsons still wishing they could turn back time, and somehow prove some point to us to try to align us to join them against the Empire, as valid a position, as some might think, that ever was.
The METHODOLOGY, in the hostility, that has been demonstrated towards Utopia however, has been more than just embarassing, for the Federation, in a similar sense of shining a spotlight on the anti-social, in his (pardon the gendered characterisation) thumb-sucking homogeny and xenophobia, and paranoia, of neutrals joining their enemies.
Realistically of course, individual Federation commanders, are NOT such simple, themselves-socially-terrified incompetents, they have their own mindsets about especially labor-freedoms, amongst their mostly anarcho-capitalist naivity, but, critically, many also-do not accept slavery, and so the Federation-Kumo pact, is itself, to be fair to them, a very tenuous one, and one that i myself, have experienced many Federation commanders not being content with, and admissive even, of it's by-product.
So while some of them have simultaneously argued that Utopia and other independent powers 'should have' joined them against the Empire, simultaneously, they show no respect for difference and true indipendence, Utopia is no lackey of the Empire, it never has been!.. and-so we have instead of just one anti-social,
one-anti-social, and one social-incompetent.
THAT, is what it is like, to be a Utopia, along the Kumo/ex-Hudson border - simultaneously asked to ignore the crimes and harm caused by Federation rogues, often acting OUTside, official orders in a supposedly deserving of recognition &or respect, militaried-'order' ... doing the exact OPPOSITE, of what such order, would not have them do, when then the ACTIONS of a power, must match the outward politics of the political-entity,.. or else other powers need-not show that entity respect for what it says,.. put simply,.. other powers and other non-Galatic-Power organisations, need-not respect the WORD, of that power.
And that is for decades if not hundreds of years now, exactly what has happened to the Federation - past mistakes have doomed it's reputation, and it's neighbours have had to deal with infrequent 'false-front' and other tactics, diplomatically and in response to puppetry, and insurgency, and 5C hypocrisy, in their supposed acceptance of the neutrality of neutral powers.
What has confused and messed up that potential for peace, is the difference between co-habitation UNDER, rather than co-habitation OVER, in a competitive sense, other indipendent factions, within Utopia,..
... meaning,.. small Federation loyalist factions, both Pilots Federation commander led ones, as well as local-populace ones, being supported to an extent, that overthrow local indipendent ones, rather than accept living UNDER them,.. in some naive sense of equal-opportunity WHILE loyalist to the diplomacy and the central Federation command.
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Were it reasonable, for Utopia or anyone else for that matter, to expect any & every small Federation faction, to OBEY Federation command, then of course a consistent denial would also always be reasonable, but that is of course, ALSO, not always the case,
so over time, we have had to accept that while Federation command is a MIXTURE, of trying to keep the peace, while at other times, with a schism of it's own, which shifts to hostility towards Utopia,
that our Policy has had to be of-neccessity, both distrust, but also flexibility, for-when they return to true neutrality, or at least practical, temporary, acceptance-of-OUR-neutrality towards them.
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In that balance, relative peace was established, and were it even remotely realistic, to expect Kumos, only LIMITED-pact-bound to the Federation in relation to the Empire, similarly bound to not attack Utopia, then yeah, OK,.. THEN... would Utopia be able to rely on such a thing for our own security, adjacent to the Kumo border.
That is of course utter nonsense, and of course, we have had to 'respectfully' point out, that the Federation cannot not even control their OWN, let alone expect us, to accept that Kumos will demonstrate discipline?!
in relation to the Federation's control over them, re the degree of reasonable-distrust, that would, and HAS, ensued, re the Federation's pact, if-not also, more general responsibilities in relation to slavery.=====
Of which, it would probably be a good time, to point out exactly-that's true EFFECT, along the Utopian/Kumo border, and to highlight the differences between Emperial slaves, and Kumo/anarchist.
Phhh...
Well, i think i've said enough about the Federation-Kumo pact and it's effects, but to finish that off and to re-state it,.. the reasonable-distrust that Utopia and other neighbours of the ex-Hudson power, if-not-also the Winters power, and even-moreso neighbours of Kumos themselves, is something that because of what the pact CAUSES,..
... all affected BY the pact, have a right to evoke, in diplomacy, in conflict, and in suppression, of Federation interests in their own spaces, with some exceptions, where they are countering anarchy and slavery, and in effect, acting-AGAINST their own superpower's diplomatic bargain.
To THOSE Federation Cmdrs and interests, i salute YOU, and ONLY you, amongst the Federation, locally, not as any kind of subservient, but as a temporary comrade / temporary confederate member if you will, such as the Erandi-Light-Horse faction, who historically, RESPONDED to the social-need, around the ex- Honges Drug Empire faction, and truly aided the effort and struggle against the pressure behind them, doing good work, finishing the faction off many years ago, when it had been a difficult uphill-struggle against the Kumos/anarchists that backed them.
The Grom.s/EG Union experience, as i understand it, is even-more distrusting of the federation as it has been, and as it still is, but is less-so focused on denying slavery and denying the Kumos their absurd hycporisies and absurd contradiction-in-terms supposed from of government, which one might say has turned out to be little more than an oligarchic or autocratic dynasty of slaving sadists and rationalisers of UNeccessary social-cruelty and counter-social-developmental directionlessness.
Meaning, having no idea how-to, or even WANTing to, develop socially, their own people, were that even a appropriate term to use, for the Billions of CAPTIVES.
It is not, and i will not use words like citizen, or civilian, for the tens of Billions under the Kumos, when the ARE, captives, their local petty governments constantly under the shadow of the Galatic Power that almost never does anything for anyone else, or anything not in their own interests.
It is truly a difficult choice, between which are the worse anarcho-capitalists, to have to choose between the Kumos and the Federation.
One is supposedly 'only' incompetent with unregulated-capitalistm,.. while in reality as-fascist WITH it, as any Imperial power of Earth's history,
the other, is so blatantly governmentally-incompetent, that 'natural'-capitalist self-interested aquisition, is all that it can level-out to, were a schism within it, going to try to rise higher than that very-low ceiling, of equal 'opportunity' for the self.
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The UAAO, is no better, and makes no claim, to be better at rejecting this, than any other Utopian loyalist squadron, in fundamentally making a choice, about the LIMITS to anarchy's usefullness,
and ideally, whenever possible, to be completely slavery-free anarchisms ... TEMPorary anarchisms,.. only for revolutionary / temporary-tactical purposes.
BUT, with the advent of the FSD(frame shift drive), corrupt individuals being able to purchse small ships and smuggle small numbers of captives around the galaxy, slavery has basically gone through a surge in it's ease of being able to guerilla capture, and then process slaves, wherever the corruption is in such a high concentration, that they can be sold and processed, and then re-sold as a commodity.
This UNSEEN smuggling, is where slavery gets it's constant sources of people from, while locally-corrupt 'governments' seem-not to have to sacrifice their own populations.
Were there sections of Kumo regions, where this was NOT? the case? And they did sacrifice their own in some kind of more-arguably civilized / limted way, like war-captives? criminal-labor? Then perhaps the power itself, would not be the massive cancer that it is.
Before the FSD, social-order was a weirdly regressive thing in places, Feudal orders developing in places where local-order was demanded, and local mandates for the USE of authority-OVER the individual, were established ... while simpler alternatives (federation corporatism) then revolutionised that back-to-forced-democratic leadership obsessions, while understimating what all the GROWTH in humanity, might risk.
There is more on the context of that in other databases, such as [https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Birthright_Wars]
Well, here we are,.. with that uncheched, 'frontier' you might say,
of what rapid-growth withOUT authority to go along WITH it,
will cause.
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Regardless of whether or not you blame wider forces than the Federation, for the situation humanity faces because of the Kumos and those 'discovering' anarchy, or pretending to be AS-A form of government, rather than what it truly is ... the ABSCENCE of it,
The way that especially kidnapping-extortions, can drive some to even create more slaves, in their desperation to pay off ransoms, and the historically-CLEAR, rejection of that as well-beyond toleratable, either in Empires, OR in small abberent emergences of 'honest' slavers like Kumos,
either way, the same reason WHY, the Federation supposedly has some kind of claim to demand that other powers join them against the Empire,
is just-as-blatantly hypocrtyically demostrated in their tolerance of the Kumos, when as i am sure, Many AG Pilots/Grom.s and Aislings would agree, they had their CHANCE, to demonstrate political maturity and wisdom, in not making an UNECCESSARY enemy, of Utopia, a long time ago.
It is in this sometimes apologetic, sometimes admissive,.. MESS,.. basically,.. that to again be fair to INDIVIDUAL Federation commanders, that DO care,.. that as Utopians, we must see-THROUGH whichever flag they wave, to the individual who cares, and the ones who do not,
and acknowledge factions like the Erandi Light Horse, as true comrades against Slavery, despite the absurdity, of the temporary nature of them effectively OBSTRUCTING Kumo interests,
so while all of this might seem too-few to an Imperial's eye, I should not, and Utopia should-not condemn every single Federation commander, as somehow not on board their BASE reasons, to reject the Empire!!
That would of course, be just-as-absurd,
so it is a difficult parallel-reality, both for Federation commanders themselves,
as-well-as sympathisers towards Federation commanders who-DO care,
but still fight their fight against the Empire, and especially, groups such as the Emperor's Dawn, in recent history.
It is EASILY noticable, that the Federation is on relatively good terms, with Aislings, despite the history that gets evoked every time the rest of the Empire calls out Aislings as somehow failing to understand what is at risk in relation to unity within the Empire,
But as far as Utopia is concerned in my experience,
that is a NATURAL consequence, of social-neglect,
and i need-not rattle off some socialist thoery or other to make REACTING to that,
seem some kind of complicated excercise in philosophy and academia.
It does not NEED to be.
One can simply recognize that spirit of co-operation, between VERY bitter enemies,
and then wonder how the Federation could have become so hostile towards us, here in Utopia.
We HAVE no similar history, and although struggle to HIGHLIGHT our neutrality,
also must insist on our right to self-defence,
not that one should need to.
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It is in THAT combination of diplomatic position,
and sympathy for especially Aislings, but also individual Federation commanders AGAINST the pact with the Kumos,
that for close to a decade now, I have unrelentingly persisted against the Kumos, and brought as many Utopians to FOCUS on them, as i could, while other threats and pressures draw our attention elsewhere sometimes.
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Now, approaching the end of 3310,
as Humanity, myself included, have fought against the Thargoids, a rare mostly-unifying threat,
and Galatic Powers powerplay itself re-adjusts, to not only a new Federation president,
but also a split in the Alliance leadership over primarily, the Alliance's close relationship with our corporatist neighbours, Sirius Corp / LYR,
and again Utopia has been drawn into a rebalancing-of-power, that AS-Utopians, wishing to unify THROUGH technology, to SURPASS differences in IDENTITY,
we are forced to have to react to flaws in human identity-politics, and yet-more pointless flag-waving.
Our own flag, seems less-pointless to us,
and arguably uneccessary, if all powers were to abolish their own controls, we would happily be the LAST, to abolish ours, if ours had to be the last to stand, in it's neutralizing effect, it's REDUCTIVE effect, aiming to surpass even political IDENTITY, itself.
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This yes, ALIEN concept, to most, is too UN-involved a thing, to at first, seem like it could be worth fighting for,
but i have to say as a Cmdr personally responsible for delivering many hundreds of millions if-not billions at times, out from under anarchy, or corporate exploitation, or other evils, that while those responsbile for the SECURITY of the solar-systems around planets OF billions, too many of us forget that the factions in control of security around them,.. ultimately do not control the people THEMSELVES,.. within them,
so while factions are sometimes an important thing,
fundamentally, Galatic Powers hold over BOTH systems, AND the people in the planets within them,
is far-greater a risk in terms of which values and reasons, you act, advocate, nurture, fight, and even kill for.
And while that might SOUND like? a reason to ignore anarchies at the small scale?
If one takes a step back, at WHY Utopia, and other powers, oppose the Kumos,
the reason is STILL THERE,
just as much as it ever was.
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THAT, is the re-focused purpose, of the UAAO ;
1 especially-but-not-only aimed directly at Kumo attempted whitewashing of slavery,
2 as-well-as it's denial within Utopia, at any instances of it's persistence,
unlike any temporary revolutionary purposes / contexts.
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The political barrier it faces within Utopia, when it comes to diplomatic arrangements with small factions, is something that those small factions, if going to be socialy-mature, should understand is a CONSEQUENCE, of their choice, to BE, anarchist, instead of something else, closer to perhaps-what they wished all along.
As i mentioned earlier on, in my experience, MOST commanders of small anarchist Pilots-Federation led factions, CLARIFY that they are fundamentally pro-freedom and anti-authoritarian,
but perhaps-not pro-anarchist,
if ultimately co-ops, confederates, usualy.
And that, as i tried to allue-to earlier in this proto-mandate, is something that Utopia actually readily understands already, but offers an ALTERNATIVE, to defaulting-to. Anarchy, does not need to be TOTAL, for one to be practically as-free as most wish,
sadists / anti-socials, excepted.
Put simply, unless you ARE, anti-social & a sadist keen on slavery,
one can be ;
a non-sadist anti-authoritarian, confederate or 'rogue' or 'guest' co-op non-member but-co-inhabitant,
a non-authoritatian confederate or co-op 'guest', even with sadistic tendencies TOWARD more orderly societies!
an anti-social co-op hermit, not sadistic, but also-anti-authoritarian and anti-slavery! and
a sadistic anti-slavery rebel / revolutionary, covered in blood and glory, banging on about liberty all the time, paying no heed to types of government as long as the next one doesn't tolerate it, a RESERVE revolutionary, an insurgent cell, ready to activate.
or similar.
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In a nutshell,
Where the UAAO seeks to act, is on where slavery EXPORTING systems, facilitate it and create it,
while having to swallow a bitter pill, when it comes to types of government that turn a blind eye to slaves being used by small groups under them, usually illegally, but-NOT as a normal matter of course / not regularly.
Which historically, has included confederates, but while the Kumos still keep their tens of billions captive, are at least placatable, or able to be shown a better way, in an ultimate long-term goal many decades if not hundreds of years distant, to convince confederates to become co-ops, essentially the same, only really with a few more rules, and more tolerance for what the wealthy can doante to them.
Utopia from a confederate's P.O.V, is a little confusing, when co-ops are not wealth-distributive like communisms 'crime' in requisitioning the assets borne of capitalist exploitation and conspiracy,
But they are also not-against socialism nor communism,.. and I can say with a lot of confidence, that if a group tried to set up a co-op that was an ANTI-socalist or ANTI-communist co-op?
That it would NOT be tolerated, or at least not accepted, as being in-line, with Utopian wealth-redistributive principles.
Their prescence would have to be watched in SUSPICION,
in a similar sense that Utopia has already acknowledge the very similar principles behind many confedeates as also exists in co-ops,
despite neither 'going-the-whole-hog' in addressing the fundamentals of anti-free-market interventionism in communism, and at least market regulation, in socalisms & responsible democracies.
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Whew! That was a heavy bit, but i think i've made the UAAO's position clear.
Basically, we're to hit, and KEEP hitting, any anarchies that try to establish themselves, or are already-established inside Utopia,
and after-that? if we achieve it despite Utopia's enemies best-efforts to 5C us ... act against anarchies outside Utopia, wherever our neighours welcome the help, or at least, against the Kumos, the false-pretences of peace with the Kumos, bedammned.
It's been attempted, but as-expected, Kumo ranks were not able to follow their leaders, or at a fundamental level, Utopia hoped-in-vain, that their leadership would be able to even attempt to direct their entire powerbase.
Such is the state of humanity in 3310,
and such is the state of the difference between those blindly accepting current leadership in Galatic Powers, tricked into false-promises, emotions played-with with false promises,
compared to those who see-through the false-pretences and false-promises from the mutually-incompatible, not that both sides always commit the same deceit.
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Utopia has tried, to be honest, with the Kumos and with Hudsons.
With or without the support of the current Utopian leadership, the UAAO is a natural result, of that honesty not being reciprocated, both powers, being unable to control themselves, regardless of whether anti-social, or social-incompetent.
You might underestimate yourself, don't fear larger numbers of commanders in other squadrons!
Persistence with such denials keeps having a reason behind your actions, unlike the cocky-overconfidences of the blustering bully as he stumbles his way through life.
o7
Cmdr Vurrath1
(in the Utopian Discord, direct-message me, for clarification about how our leaderhip and the current Utopian leadership will differ / de-synchronize at times)