The Marlin Standard will be featuring unedited submissions from Marlinist commanders where they will express their thoughts and feelings about the proposal for the Marlinist Colonies joining the Empire. Today marks our first submission. If you are interested in making a submission message Cmdr Gyfiawn Gryfudd.
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I used to live in Baltah'Sine. I was born and raised there and would still be there except for the actions of the Empire's corrupt senators. They radicalized and enabled the NMLA. They drove us from our homes. They are responsible for the deaths of nearly a million people. All of that done as part of making us scapegoats in their plot to overthrow Arissa. And now somehow Arissa has the idea we are the ones she needs to keep under the watchful eye of her security forces? The same security forces that were the tools used to nearly drive us into extinction?
I know you important people don't always like listening to us commonfolk but I think you also need to take a close look at these trade agreements Arissa is offering. I make my living hauling trade so I know a little about these things and I don't like the smell of this. We're being offered something we already have -- trade with the Empire. We also have trade with the Feds and the Alliance. So what's Arissa really offering us? Economic dependency, that's what. I read it in the news feed: "Empire-based companies as preferred partners." Maybe you don't see it but I do. That's going to turn into "exclusive trade partners," cutting us off from trade with our friends like Sirius Corporation and the Feds who helped put us where we are today.
No, I don't like it all. They're being sneaky about it but plain and simple it's a way to enslave us again by making us dependent on their trade. Start behaving in a way they don't like, expressing opinions they don't want to hear, and they shut down the trade to starve us into compliance while using their navy operating from our own bases to make sure we don't start trading with others to go around them.
It's a bum deal and if you know what's good for us you wont take it. Arissa's got nothing to offer we don't already have. Tell her "no!"
~ Cmdr DB_Wade
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I used to live in Baltah'Sine. I was born and raised there and would still be there except for the actions of the Empire's corrupt senators. They radicalized and enabled the NMLA. They drove us from our homes. They are responsible for the deaths of nearly a million people. All of that done as part of making us scapegoats in their plot to overthrow Arissa. And now somehow Arissa has the idea we are the ones she needs to keep under the watchful eye of her security forces? The same security forces that were the tools used to nearly drive us into extinction?
I know you important people don't always like listening to us commonfolk but I think you also need to take a close look at these trade agreements Arissa is offering. I make my living hauling trade so I know a little about these things and I don't like the smell of this. We're being offered something we already have -- trade with the Empire. We also have trade with the Feds and the Alliance. So what's Arissa really offering us? Economic dependency, that's what. I read it in the news feed: "Empire-based companies as preferred partners." Maybe you don't see it but I do. That's going to turn into "exclusive trade partners," cutting us off from trade with our friends like Sirius Corporation and the Feds who helped put us where we are today.
No, I don't like it all. They're being sneaky about it but plain and simple it's a way to enslave us again by making us dependent on their trade. Start behaving in a way they don't like, expressing opinions they don't want to hear, and they shut down the trade to starve us into compliance while using their navy operating from our own bases to make sure we don't start trading with others to go around them.
It's a bum deal and if you know what's good for us you wont take it. Arissa's got nothing to offer we don't already have. Tell her "no!"
~ Cmdr DB_Wade
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