Mech-Viper wrote:yes this is all good but still doesn't answer the questions
Now how many pure good natured souls are going to let it happen if they can stop it? What will happen afterwards it goes off without a hitch? What happens it the plans goes off but turns south real quick? What happens if it goes off and nothing major happens? How will every other nation react to it? What will be the Coalition States reaction to the attack?
ALL of the Questions go out the Window when you're a City-State, or anyone for that matter, struggling to survive against as implacable foe.
You could ask the EXACT same Questions about the Xiticix, Atlantis (should Splynncryth decide that he'd like the North American Continent to add under his belt), the Vampire Kingdoms, or even Nxla.
And the Answer is: "They left us no choice. We HAD to ultimately take the Action that we did, anyway."
Real World examples:
How many
"good-natured Souls" would STILL be opposed to the Nuclear Bombing of Japan if they'd taken the time to study and figure out what the Generals knew: By the most conservative estimates, kill a few hundred thousand people NOW, or kill up to a million Americans and up to SEVEN MILLION Japanese Civilians??
Should the Allies have NOT gone to fight against Hitler's Germany because of the VERY REAL possibility that the D-Day Invasion
"would have turned south real quick?"
Should we base our decision to directly confront Islamic Radicals strictly on the question of how
"other Nations will react to the Attack?"
Should we NOT have did what we could in the Cold War to slow the Soviets' World Communist Government Ambitions (by introducing M.A.D., supporting Opposing Forces wherever the Soviets were attempting to destabilize and then 'convert' a given Country, etc.), because we were afraid of
"how the Soviets would respond to the Attack??"
..Again, the answer to both the Real World AND the Game World Scenarios is "We simply don't have a choice."
The only thing is, in the Real World, our Leaders (at least the ones who actually
lead, Past or Present, Liberal or Conservative, Here or abroad) actually step up to the plate and make the hard decisions, the way that Human Beings ALWAYS do when they're backed into a corner.
However, it seems that in Rifts, Kevin doesn't
allow the Magic-Using nations to......
The Kevinomicon, Book of Siembieda 3:16.
16 Blessed art Thou above all others, O COALITION STATES, beloved of Kevin;
17 For Thou art allowed to do Evil without Limit, nor do thy Enemies retaliate.
18 Thy Military be run by Fools and Dotards.
19 Yet thy Nation suffers not. Praise be unto Him that protects thee from all harm!!