nw s2e4 again
have been wondering what the benefit of strategic non violence for ghorman and my gut feeling is there basically isn't one but also all things ghorman and all things' relations to ghorman makes like zero sense lol
I mean there was a theophite remark earlier on to the effect that the rebel strategy on Ghorman was irrelevant—the Empire wanted to crack the planet open like an egg to get at this kalkite stuff and no one is in a place to stop them
Which I feel like is where this is all building to - individual acts of resistance or isolated planets cannot take down the empire, which is why they feel they must merge into the Alliance under one banner
Ferrix & Ghorman are a bit like Tiananmen or Hong Kong. They have all the ingredients for a successful uprising locally but they're so cut off from the rest of society that the government can still easily crush them.
May 8, 2025 04:02There's also the value of being lucky with who is in charge. Budapest 1956 isn't that different from 1989 except that the people behind the guns accepted it. Dedra (after ep 8) feels more like 1989, Partagaz 1956
