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Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Belschaft - 01-27-2015
This is a poll to get an idea of current preferences for military and regional alignments/identifications. As well as the poll itself please provide a ranked list of your preferences using the form bellow. There is no need to rank all options, and please identify those options that you would never support.
There are TWO votes available here. Please use one for a REGIONAL option and one for a MILITARY option.
Quote:REGIONAL ALIGNMENTX RaiderX DefenderX IndependentX ImperialistX Non-Aligned (independent)
MILITARY ALIGNMENTX RaiderX DefenderX IndependentX ImperialistX Non-Aligned (independent)
Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - ProfessorHenn - 01-27-2015
Non-aligned, both times.
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RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Belschaft - 01-27-2015
Quote:REGIONAL ALIGNMENTX RaiderX Defender1 IndependentX Imperialist2 Non-Aligned (independent)
MILITARY ALIGNMENTX RaiderX Defender1 IndependentX Imperialist2 Non-Aligned (independent)
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Kris Kringle - 01-27-2015
Using the word independent as a synonym of non-align makes it confusing, given the additional use of the term Independence.
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Farengeto - 01-27-2015
Can we have clarification as to the difference betwen the two independents?
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Belschaft - 01-27-2015
"Non-aligned" militaries like ours and TEP's function identically to Independent militaries but don't call them such. As such I use the terminology small i and large I independence.
The difference is that one has "political connotations".
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Kris Kringle - 01-27-2015
Not everyone voting here knows that, or really understands what the difference is.. Hence why it would be better to keep it simple: Independent and Non-aligned, without the small-i one.
And no, our military is not like Independent militaries.
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - sandaoguo - 01-27-2015
Eh, I would choose Defender or Non-Aligned for our regional position, fwiw. Defender for our military, if we just had to have one.
I would never support TSP being raider or imperialist, and I would leave in a heartbeat if that were to ever happen. If TSP, for some godawful reason, chose to formally re-adopt Independence, I would fight to death to kill it again.
(01-27-2015, 05:30 PM)Belschaft Wrote: "Non-aligned" militaries like ours and TEP's function identically to Independent militaries but don't call them such. As such I use the terminology small i and large I independence.
The difference is that one has "political connotations".
Independent militaries raid, unless there is a very specific reason to defend. It is not the same as what our military is supposed to do, which is raid and defend with regularity.
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Escade - 01-27-2015
I choose Defender which is pretty obvious.
It was proven pretty clearly that "Independent" was a false option so I'm not sure why it's there. Then, there's "non-aligned" which, if we have allies at all, is also a false option.
RE: Poll: Military and Regional Alignment - Belschaft - 01-27-2015
If someone has better choice of terminology, feel free to suggest it.