On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Michele Armellini wrote:
All in all, it gives a reason for isolated little empires of card carrying
villians, that have great technology, but do not use them effectivly.
Well, all of this is interesting and intriguing. However, I wonder why the
original civilization does not seem to be worried about these small evil
tyrants. If they do not feel any ethical obligation, they should at least be
afraid of the tyrants developing more advanced weaponry. Or, at least, if I
were one of the members of that civilization, I would.
I mean, civilized countries in our actual history were reasonably worried
about, say, slavers, once slavery began declining; or about piracy. They did
not do everything that was in their power to suppress those phenomena, that's
true - but the slavers and pirates weren't developing armored warships,
torpedoes, aircraft and automatic weapons.
Likely they are worried. But unless they find a way to reliably stop the
tyrants from getting into the reach of their psi power, they have a hard
time to actually do anything against them.
And with opponents, who fall under the power of their spell, they
almost only have to fear attacks of destruction. Invasion would not
work, because the invaders would have to take part in the compromise. And
"Give me that, or else i attack" plans would be difficult to execute,
with all negotiations neccessarily being remote. And if one overlord tries
this, the next other overlord on a trade mission, likely finds mercenary
services as something he can provide for payment.
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