It was the Thukkers’ choice to make. They gave you all a place to settle, and that was fine. Where it stopped being fine was when the Tribal Council sent a legally-appointed agent in to take charge of a system in crisis, and you guys did not stand down as ordered.
Yes, there was previously-established bad blood between Bosena Accords and Kril Efrit. May I remind you, I supported Bosena’s request for an RSS inquest. I am not, in any way, a fan of Kril Efrit, or of the current power structure that he represents. I believe they represent a dangerously violent faction who came to power in a murderous coup with a whole lot of purely fabricated ‘evidence’ that was only ever reviewed by their own people.
That said, once he was placed in charge of the situation in Skarkon, he did legitimately possess the authority to tell Bosena to stand the hell down and stop interfering. Whatever grievances Bosena may have had against him, however valid or righteous, did not alter that. Skarkon was, at the time, undisputedly a Republic system, and he was the individual placed in charge of resolving the matter by the Republic.
You come into a lawless place, invited by the locals, and that’s fine. You get into a scrap with some of the local criminal element, and you try to make the place better and safer for civilians. That’s fine, too. Hell, that’s commendable.
Then a new lawman gets sent in. Don’t matter if he’s someone you got history with, he’s still the law. And when he tells you to stop shooting people, you have to stop shooting people. He tells you to get the hell out of town, you get the hell out of town.
Doesn’t matter if he’s biased. Doesn’t matter if he’s running you off because he doesn’t like you. You can sue. You can take that up with the courts. You refuse to leave? You keep on shooting people? Now you’re a problem. And you’re in the wrong. You try to murder him, you’re definitely a problem, and you’ve pretty much thrown away any chance of getting a court to say ‘no, he’s gotta let you back into town’.
You have gone and shot yourself right straight in the dick as far as justifications and legitimacy are concerned. But you didn’t stop there.
No, see, instead, when a whole freakin’ invading army comes in and occupies the place, what happens?
As far as I’m aware, you guys fought pretty hard to protect the place during the initial invasion. You could’ve kept that up. You could have said ‘it doesn’t matter if Efrit’s gonna be an ass to us, we’re going to keep fighting for the people of Skarkon II’.
But y’didn’t, did you? Yeah, yeah, I’m aware that Efrit was a paranoid ass who declared your evacuation efforts ‘slaving’. And yeah, that sucks for you. In that situation, you could have just said ‘ok, then, we’ll put our ships at your disposal. You call the shots here, boss, we just want to help protect these people’. Not a ‘ceasefire’, but a full-on ‘dude, we surrender, just let us help the population’. Sure, it might have stung the pride a little, and maybe he would’ve refused even that… but then you’d have a legit case that you’d made every good-faith effort to honor the invitation that brought you there in the first place.
Didn’t do that, either, though. Instead, Bosena made a big, showy declaration about how they wouldn’t attack… the Triglavians. And it didn’t help, cuz the Trigs don’t care! They’re still gonna shoot your warclone asses! Worse, they’re still running roughshod over the civilian populace… or what’s left of it. Civilians getting slaughtered in droves while Bosena Accord postures and makes grand declarations of ‘SEE!!! We’re totally legit here! We really are! We mean it!’
You label yourselves invaders. You’ve thrown in with other invaders. And you still try to put forth a claim under the original invitation that was clearly intended to find a way to reduce the conflict in Skarkon.
And you want to know why you’re seen as less legitimate?