wow, the neutrals, what can u say?
we make up so little of the population, yet all the rage seems to be about what we are or are not doing.
lets talk about past present and posable future shall we ?
past,....
before the notum wars, there wasent much, the attack on commander steel was interesting, but many clanners miss took it for an attack on Tir.
to set things straight as much as possable, it was an attack on commander steel in retaliation to his brutality. not aginst the clans or tir. if ICC guards were attacking clan in the streets of newland or meetmedere, shooting before asking questions i would expect the same responce from the clan cummunity. but how many times have i seen clan or omni people killing our guards in front of the newland main gate or at the meetmedere prison with out anyone really getting their feathers ruffled about it?
after talking to a clanner the other day though i think that you now understand some of the same fustrations we as neuts have had about our guards being shot down in cold blood. but how many ICC guards have shot at you for no reason and without provocation? oh well. i feel like im beating a dead horse, and that the damage and misconseptions have already sunk in too deep to be retrieved.
present,......
neurals have some land. not much, and to my knowalge all of it was obtained without blood shed, with only 1 or 2 not being the first prospectors on the various notum veins throughout the terraformed regions. some sites have held on for good time, while some fell victom to the opening attacks of notum wars. for the most part clans are the only attackers, but a few omni come in to test the defense shield capablitys from time to time. the intersting thing is that when people attack neut mines, aside from a few blatent orgs like omni-pol they always seem to have an excuse and act sorry for attacking. like the dishonor of fighting so small a group instead of your real enemy needs apoligy. watching a grey mark turn to red/blue without provocation brings enough shame on your name, even from other orgs on the same side. why waste time with the neuts that dont have to numbers to own many more when you could be fighting for the freedom of rubi-ka or the preservation of the corporation. some try to justify, but with all the fals roumors about neuts, and some neut orgs, like EO to which i belong, ive lost hope for understanding. everyone wants to hold a grudge and find an excuse to wipe out every grey spot on the Lcs map. while were on the subject of total annilation......
future,....
can u imagine a world without neutral notum mines? some long for that day, even go so far as to threaten it, but relly, lets ponder the question.
in 29250 omni-tek allowed neutrals to leave the corp without retaliation so as notto have to deal with ICC regs about them. the neutral populace of rubi-ka are not going away. ICC will see to that. but without land neutrals will drop all the inhabations they had earlier. which means that you will have an entire populace on RK angry and disgruntled with nothing to lose. a people with nothing to lose do some crazy things, when you have nowhere to go but up your willing to even sacafice yourself and eveything you own to "get back". there are a fair number or neut merc groups that own land. can u imagine a Elite Operations or Circle G that have nothing better to do then distroy, terroise, grief, any and all org's that got in their way in the past, only to place up an unguarded controler so that it can be taken away so that they can distroy and troment the next guild to take the spot ? with out any worry of retaliation on nonexistant holdings the neutral community would be one in something that they already have proven theselfs to be very profecent in. revenge. ive even heard talk of it already, as if people are just waiting for that situation to arise so that they can take revenge. to declare their freedoms and be left alone.
the days of calling neuts fence sitters are gone. we do believe in something. the automony to be left alone. we fight for the same freedoms that the clanners of old did, and unlike the clans of today who seek to overthrow the corperation. we can se a world where pease between all sides can exist. what it truly comes down too, is rubi-ka as a whole willing to set aside its differences, and achieve that.
i for one dont think so, so untill then, i walk with my pistol loaded, and my heart proud, that i am one of the few on rubi-ka that can call herself, Neutral.
elyse "shaquaneeva" orbin
adventurer Elite Operations
and miss neutral rubika 29476