I am almost completely positive this isn't going well. I suppose the level of reluctantance was to be expected: why let yet another member world slip out of the Alliance? And, I suppose the verbal lashing I got from the Angelite was also to be expected: I can hardly say I have a good relationship with my native planet. Then again, does any man have a good relationship with Angel One?
*sigh*
The Alliance has been consumed with wars and battles for so long it hardly knows how to conduct itself in peace. And in its collectivist culture, it's grown so large it cannot afford to support its smallest worlds any more. I fear that if even Trent was unable to wake up the Council and its Senate to enact complete reform to the budgetary structure, the Alliance's days are numbered. It's obviously not sustainable. And honestly, could anyone expect the colonies to remain affiliated with a treaty that is providing it with no benefit?
I've spent so many years fighting for peace for the Alliance . . does the Alliance even want peace? It's as if all this infrastructure, these bases and starships and soldiers, now have nothing to do with themselves. And now they're not even getting paid! And tensions on the planets we fought so hard to keep together at at levels I've not seen in . . . I don't even know how long.
I just have to hope that the Senate will err on the side of peace. If I can somehow convince them to let Beerax go without a fight . . . at least we may avoid the bloodshed of the Freedom War. Perhaps then, finally, Beerax will stop being a warzone.
*sigh*
Things are so much easier in a laboratory.
