>>@KEBECHET | TO: @ALL.

[agogenpc]

By now, you may have noticed some among your number missing. I can assure you they are being well taken care of with what supplies we have in this time of war.

Our struggle here is drawing to a close. I presume both sides would like to avoid further loss of life. The Empire-- the Regency, as you call us-- certainly would. I myself grow weary of slaughter, especially this senseless murder of my soldiers.

This can be ended. I do not have the credentials necessary to surrender. You do. Call off this useless struggle. Your people will be returned to you.

Of course, if you have questions, I beg you to ask them while we have the time. This transference into your network will not last for long.

[ooc Discuss surrender here! Threadjacking welcome.]

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[agogenpc]

You underestimate, then, what COST is hiding from you. They have bombed cities, burnt villages, exploded railways and murdered politicians, all in the name of their precious free will. But I suppose your hands are clean, so long as you wash them in the current of your 'flow'.

[hakanai]

Clean hands? Don't be foolish. No side of a war can claim to have bloodless hands and I as a strategist certainly do not possess them. Nor do I doubt that COST has done their fair share of bloodletting considering what must be done to preserve history as it is currently shaped; maybe they will even ensure that the deaths of my lost loved ones happen in the future in the same violent ways that they happened.

But I have yet to hear even from the mouths of your agents why the Regency's definition of peace is a good thing. They merely insist that it is. Countering the reality of your own brutality with the brutality of your enemies is hardly a good argument for swaying others onto your side and all in all is a poor strategy.

Unless, of course, you don't actually care to do so and merely wish to damage morale.

[agogenpc]

There is a special place in hell for bloviators, though I'm sure you'll give me a point-by-point analysis of why you don't belong there, how it doesn't exist, or how I am too weak a debater to register all your myriad complaints. In truth I simply tire of the preemptive eulogy.

Though I do wonder what misguided fool told you that the aim was history's preservation. Such innocence I have not seen in a long time.

The debate between peace and chaos is such a simple one, if you cannot grasp it, I cannot help you to do so. My life is busy enough without slotting in the elucidation of a simpleton. Suffering is bad. Peace is infinitely preferable. Anything else said on the matter risks redundancy.

Your morale is something I do not wish to touch, should it become contagious and infect me with the apparent necessity of protesting its strength with suspicious alacrity from every opportunity availed.

[hakanai]

The opposite of peace is not suffering; the existence of peace does not equal a world without suffering. That statement makes you more naive than some of my fellow warriors.

How very interesting, though. I've learnt something very valuable. I'd offer you my thanks but I do not think you would want it.