My politics are indeed situational.
I would love to live in a cluster where I did not have to care about anyone but the Sebiestor Tribe, and even then rarely of anyone outside Sundsele. Where when we came under multiple threats we’d simply fight all of them, on our own, and win.
Just as I don’t live in a cluster where it matters who I like or not, I do not live in a cluster where I can just draw hard lines like you suggest, and refuse to ever co-operate with anyone I find the least bit distasteful.
I want my people to live. Preferably, I want them to live free. And for that end I have just one immutable policy: “whatever it takes, never again another Long Night”.
Yes, it means I am with Edencom now. But it is not like I am Edencom by primary loyalty. I lead the SoERR, and I’ve grown to share some of the Sisters’ beliefs, but I am not SoE. I am Shaninn, Rhiannon, Sebiestor, and in a mutable cluster what I do to protect those loyalties depends, indeed, on the situation.
The alternate timeline where we aligned with the Collective to shoot Amarr first is only a hair’s breadth away from this one. It might still be this one, in the future.
You want to see hypocrisy in that. You set up a standard of immutability, you want to base politics on who is whose sworn enemy, you want me to show “consistency” by always attacking everyone I’ve ever said I’m opposed to. But those are your standards, not mine.
And it’s not like this is something I’m exactly trying to hide from anyone, ally or foe. I am willing to make temporary truces and mutable alliances, and I will always put the security of the free tribes first. People will use that, absolutely. The Amarr, the Feds, the more anti-capsuleer factions in Thera. Does not matter to me. It goes both ways.
As they say, sue me.