I didn't miss what you were trying to say, just advanced a premise futher along. I don't like war, it's wasteful and it's evil. Too many lives have been spent over something that should have been settled a long, long time ago, and I'm all for it's end any time.
Negotiations are how you stop wars, I couldn't agree more. There are many things that OTRK and Clan can achieve with simple standard protocol-driven negotiations. It's also true that the Sentinels are a hard-line Clan bunch of yahoos that do little to advance the cause of peace. But then again, they don't exactly do much in the way of "offensive missions" these days, do they? No, they do not. Rhetoric is NOT action, but merely words. Their threats to date have been hollow, because I do not see them acting out on any of the genocidal threats they have made regarding Omni or Neutral people. I personally think that the Sentinels have a piece of Tir and they DEFEND it from Omni incursions. They don't go out looking for things to whack. Same goes for Omni guard forces. They don't actively go out looking for Clanners in their cities to kill.
However, and we've gone around in circles about this before and I guess we'll do it again, is that there are paradigm shifts that need to occur in OTRK before a real peace between Clan and Omni can be achieved. OTRK must understand that it cannot be the government of Rubi-Ka, and it doesn't matter what piece of paper was signed way back when giving OTRK the "contract" to exploit this planet (exploit in the business sense, not the cynical one). Too much has passed in that time, and OTRK made horrible errors in judgement that cost the lives of far too many of the citizens it was supposed to care for, and now that cost included the governance of this planet. I don't believe that any Clanner will ever agree to returning to the status quo ever again.
The people of Rubi-Ka must be allowed to govern themselves, and the corporation must work as a governed entity, and not as the governer. Until such time as that occurs, I doubt very seriously that you will find many Clan members wanting to lay out peace negotiations with a corporation that just wants us to make nice so it can go back to doing what it did before, unchecked and unanswerable to anything but their stockholders. The callous business mind might see that and say "oh yes, what a marvelous idea, more cognac please...", but the rest of us most assuredly do not.
Would OTRK be willing to stand down it's military in favor of one run by the government that is formed from the people of Rubi-Ka in whatever manner they decided to vote for? Probably not. It's certainly very possible, given the number of scumbag arms dealers on this planet and off of it as well. OTAF would be a marvelous trainer of troops, too. OTRK would of course be allowed to defend it's corporate property (not a 3rd of the bloody planet but where their factories, warehouses, etc are) but the people of RK would defend and govern themselves. I doubt very much that, even if YOU wished it, it would not happen, because OT doesn't work that way.
And I have to say that I even agreed with some points that Marisha made. We're all glad that you don't want to nuke the North until it glows. And we don't want to murder vast quantities of your population by much less glamourous but still effective and massively destructive methods. However, as for being in suits of any kind, I doubt very seriously you had been in one, or you would know just how amazingly ungainly, uncomfortable, unhygenic and inefficient life becomes for the basic necessities having to wear that stuff. Not to mention severely uneconomic.
As for the rest, well, we're back in "Omni Tek cheerleader/evangelist/drone" mode again. Seeing as how you don't manage the planet, we'll dispense with that one. You manage about a 3rd of it. You didn't use orbital weapons against a guerilla movement for the simple reason of economy of force. In simpler terms, the cure for dandruff is not decapitation, or you don't bring a nuclear weapon to a knife fight would actually be more apt. No, the reason you didn't do that was not because of your "humanity", it was because your military commanders are more prudent than that. And I'm quite certain that the reason that you didn't use the reclaim advantage against Clan is that you could not, or you would have. Most likely ICC hampered you in that regard, I would think. And pressing the advantage would have been EXACTLY what OTRK would have done if they could have gotten away with it. Only they could not, because there were CONSEQUENCES to that action, namely the loss of the big profit machine you were milking and still are milking. The galactic community would have, if you would have been guilty of the murder of everyone that opposed you for damn good reasons, removed you from this planet and caused your company to take serious losses, and THAT is the reason that OT didn't do it. Spare me the altruistic morality play. OT doesn't HAVE a moral side. Morality is a side benefit to making a buck to OT. Nice if you can get it in there, but it's not essential to profit.