I've been pounding on Eternal_Freedom a bit hard, probably because he pissed me off with the submarine incident, and in general I got a sense that his navy wasn't handling things professionally or classily. Plus, the little things like "lol I know exactly where you are and what you're doing and can be in exactly the place I need to be to screw with you" feeling I got from the whole incident.
Umeria is big on ensuring that its sovereignty, security, and interests are respected, due to a history of being a pushover for foreign enclaves and spheres of influence coming from everybody from Arcadia to Zeeland.* And the crew of Stiletto (and the Skylark carrier battlegroup) felt that they were not being treated with respect.
*There may not actually be a Zeeland in the world, but it'd sure be alphabetical if there was...
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The trutherism post was actually not my idea; RogueIce came up with it, but partly at his request, I sort of grabbed the idea and ran with it because it appealed to me. Umeria will probably actually get hit with similar conspiracy theories, they have summarily executed people before, and sometimes done so unjustly. It happened to the plant director at Orange Terrace.
The only thing that keeps the population docile is the conviction that the bureaucracy really is trying to make life better for all Umerians, and that they are considerably harder on their own ranks than they are on the average citizen. So far it's worked quite well, but if it ever falls apart it's going to get bloody.
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Anyway, I just want to say that I bear Eternal_Freedom no long-term ill will over the affair(s), and that for what it's worth, the Umerians may get annoyed over the submarine incident and decide to get their own back in a nonwar way via random dickery. Because that hit them where they live, literally.
But for what it's worth, they will not join any international ruckus over the shooting of the terrorists. Because while they probably wouldn't have done it that way themselves, and consider it undignified, they certainly understand the instinct.
And I acknowledge that I bawled out E_F a little too hard over the executions, though I did want to make a point to him about the submarine incident and how that sort of thing is called "brinksmanship" in real life and can in fact lead to wars.