#ooc: this is in fact worse than the fucking blockade but it is more deniable

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Fascinated by the implication that the House of Stone approach I described as "blunt force trauma" is what I think should have happened. No, let the Ungratefuls have the moon, and let them see what compromises they must make to run it when they no longer have the blockade to use to beg for aid. They've closed the mines? Fine, I'm sure they can somehow turn their resort world into a living when their old clientele were made hostages. See what traders in Khayradi orbit would even consider them worth visiting, actually. They're no longer part of Karrakin space, of course, which means they must negotiate member status with Union, and we've seen their leaders' historical skill with negotiation. No, I take issue with the idea that Union approached the conflict with the intention for compromise, already intervening, and then decided the solution was to put the conflict in stasis.

It's a poor attempt at impartiality hampered by the fact that they did it alongside negotiating the end of the First Interest War. I'd venture to guess they only gave so much to Stone because their other priority at the time was finding a way to weasel out of the fact that they gave Karrakis the Dawnline Shore so they could acknowledge Harrison Armory's claims on that territory. (Especially bad form in my opinion given the war was started when the Baronic Navy intercepted a fleet that we later learned was en route to depose the new government on Terra. We save ThirdComm the civil war and that was the thanks we got.)

Besides, we all know they've never been impartial anyway, don't we? I hear rumors of Union teams slipping the blockade they help enforce. Slander, I'm sure. You wouldn't break your own rules like that, would you?

Ignoring the fact each member in centcomm is allowed to choose their representative in the committee without any external pressures to it, and has a say on the existence of departments, means they are atleast held accountable, as opposed to your prime baron. The ignoble house is constantly under the pressure of the noble class, whether thorough funding for campaigning, or the threat of physically harm by less morally upstanding members of the noble class. This influences how any given member is going to vote in a multitude of ways, though generally in favor of whatever the noble class of where they represent wants.

...you know the Prime Baron is a member of CentComm, right? If she's uniquely undemocratic then I have bad news about CentComm appointments, especially if we're also considering corpo-state appointments.

Also, do riches not exist outside of the Concern? I know that people seem to assume I have some unfathomable amount of money, but I would assume that campaign funds are a problem wherever democracy and manna coexist.