Speaking purely from my own voice, not GVRKs...
Wandering through the streets of Rome behind Redruum, and an assortment of CAS/UF/whatever people, cutting mercilessly through the guards, I wondered why. I mean, I was pretty much there to heal people and take shots so I could report to GVRK... but the futility and counter-productiveness of the whole operation flashed like a Japanese cartoon in front of me.
They attack Athen, we attack Rome. They threaten us, we threaten them. It is really silly. The Clans and Omni-Tek depend on each other... Omni needs the Clans to keep order in the Northern Territories (so they don't have to admister them and control neutrals), and the Clans need Omni for little things like terraforming and money and food.
Really, what is important, is looking 24 years into the future when the Lease expires (at least partially). Our rights and freedom are threatened much more then than they are now.
For one, the Clans have lost all coherency. We fight vaguely for "freedom," but what that is has hardly been outlined. The way I see it, neither side has a reason to fight, other than bloodthirsty parties calling for the extermination of each other.
I'm not calling for a return to peace - the status quo on Rubi-Ka seems to be this hostility covering gentlemen's agreements. Other than that... well, bah. "Death to all Omnis" rhetoric is as bad as "Death to all Clans".
The ideal Clan Rubi-Ka would be one where Omni-Tek exists, but not as the primary governing power - just as a large company subject to all the rules and laws as anyone else on Rubi-Ka.
By declaring all out war on Omni-Tek, we give them what they need - the excuse to use full military power and drag out the lease into emergency periods, until they can consolidate all of the power on their own, or even just make the CoT a puppet state.
I mean, Ross is a powder puff compared to what we could be facing.
(OOC, yadda yadda, everyone wants to fight. This is something that I understand quite well - but there are creative ways to do it. It doesn't help that FunCom has given us NO guidance at all here.
One thing I would like to see is long-term engagements, and more things in PvP, or at least involving PvP. I think that we have something brewing to happen shortly involving all of this - more creative reason to enter into conflict, long term, a little more involved in using a lot of skills. Wait and see. :-)