Re: [GZG] Requesting a little help with a background (Revolt on Antares!)

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the Consul who is about to lose his phoney balony job when the Terrain
councel finds out I can't keep these yokes underthumb I would need a
pretty
darn good reason to even mumble about "La Revolution" whilst submitting
my
quarterly TPS reports.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:18 PM, John Tailby <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz>
wrote:

>  Isn't the simplest rational for limited reinforcements the timescale
of
> the game.
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> If the revolt takes place with one turn = one day then there is very
> limited time to mobilise new units and get them to a planet miles
away. Look
> at the recent international conflicts for a model. If it's a done deal
> before the next meeting of the general assembly of terra or whatever
then
> they might vote not to invade and to deal with the new regime.
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> If one turn is one year then it's a big noisy war. Again politics
might be
> the limiting factor. Wars are expensive and so might not be popular
and some
> politicians might vote for education for their citizens rather than
> expensive military intervention.
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