Cant be more right there durk.Durkadurkiranistan II wrote:The Murtunian Tribes wrote:I blame the feeders demise. They were the center of actual pragmatic politics.
As do I at least in part.
I was discussing this with North East Somerset the other day; the feeders have, in reaction to diplomatically overextending themselves back in their heyday, isolated themselves from the NS world as a whole. There is some interaction among themselves but very little outside of their feeder/sinker circle. Most feederites are (like myself) old as dirt and many are largely unaware of the UCR world around them. One could say there is good reason for this isolation - feeders had become the political battlefields of the oldtimes, and of course this an unenviable scenario for a feeder. The ADN and NPO in particular butted heads in the feeders (and over the feeders). The feeders understandably tired of that incessant battle, but they in my opinion overreacted by cutting themselves off from the outside world entirely. With no foreign interaction their activity levels withered away.
Still the thing is Osiris and Balder just kinda shut themselves in that circle once they were founded.
I thunk there needs to be another defender raider war to kick things up, a real one not the petty squabbles we have now. Those wars always get things stirred up and get people to do odd things and side with one of em, yet the fenders have nothing to throw at a large scale raid so eh.
Really another massive war between fenders and raiders or the feeders, or perhaps a new independent side who just wants control of stuff.... We need that
I became involved in the feeders during the PRP days so I don't recall any delegate elections in the Pacific 