That much is entirely fair, yes.
Were they? Last I checked, slaves donāt get released immediately upon accepting the Faith. Seems to me the faithful would have included quite a number of the people attacked by the Khanid, in that situation.
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I intentionally mentioned your chief, the admirable reputation of the Midular Clan is not unknown to me. I also intentionally spoke of those who keep their faith, who to my understanding often do not have the security of being considered part of a tribe. I donāt doubt that though her principles differ from mine, that Chief Midular is principled, that her predecessor was perhaps even more so.
Iāll be a little more specific with my question though, in all probability, would anyone bother to tell her if people in lands she controls (I confess the specifics of your governance escape me) without clan, and who were already on the verge of starving began to do so?
Edit: Iām not criticising the possibility that she would not know, merely attempting to illustrate that temporal governance is flawed.
The life of a slave is not commensurate with that of a freeman until they accept the Rite and are entered in the Book of Records.
To my knowledge, the Clanless within the Tribe do have means to make their needs known, yes. How robust those means are, I donāt know. Certainly, they donāt take the place of the safety net a Clan offers, simply by virtue of what that extended family relationship represents.
But any responsible system of governing such a diverse and distributed population would need to have such a bureaucracy, not only empowered, but specifically charged with bringing such vulneralbe peoples to the attention of those in power. Otherwise, itās hardly responsible at allāit would just systemically churn out disaffected, marginalized malcontents eager to seek vengeance upon the system and society they might rightly feel had failed them.
To my knowledge, neither that acceptance nor entry require or bestow emancipation.
No, but their lives still do not matter as much as those who are free. In a choice between saving the Faithful citizen of God, or condemning the Faithful slave, the slave should always be condemned.
I suspect itās as robust as the safety net for slaves is, depending on Holder (or whoever is responsible for conveying the needs of the clanless). Anything from adequate to absent.
In reference to the Knight-Preceptorās point, that they have not earned the privilege of manumission does not in any way mean that profligacy with their lives is acceptable. Such carelessness is not only damaging to the slaves, to needlessly rob Holy Amarr of their good and faithful service would in my view constitute an offence to God.
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from what? The no-longer psychotic slaves, secluded in their ghettoes?
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They could have still been psychotic with the limited knowledge available at the time.
In the end however, no Imperial laws were broken by Kingdom actions in Kahah so I see nothing to censure.
The irony however is that whatever the truth is with respect to Kahah III (and I have heard too many versions to hold any certainty), the discussion among the high nobility about the proportionality of force was silenced as soon as outsiders attempted to coerce us into their preferred response. An outcome predictable to anyone with any understanding of our people.
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So as long as no laws are broken, itās perfectly alright to be immoral and needlessly cruel, and thereās no cause for anyone to express disapproval.
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Totally forgot that we are supposed to wait for you to tell us the bad thing you did was bad before we are allowed to take action. Sorry.
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Action is judged by its results, in rushing to implement coercive measures so completely doomed to failure that they could only have been for a domestic audience; the Republic contributed to a climate of heightened tensions, in which the military capability of the RKN has magnificently increased the political capital of the very man they sought to punish.
But waitingās for idiots right?
The Red King would have ensured his sock puppet was rewarded regardless of what anyone else did.
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Letās not be foolish here. The āmilitary capability of the RKNā didnāt increase the political capital of Alar Chakaid. The Blood Raiders did. Time and again, Deathglow attacks happened where it would benefit Chakaid. When other Houses made statements of disapproval of what happened on Kahah, Deathglow struck Sarum, Kador, and Ardishapur. When Elsebeth spoke up, suddenly thereās a Deathglow strike in Sundseleāand letās just not even get into the side-issue of how quickly Shakorās government was ready to take advantage of the pro-Chakaid actions of the Blooders. When Arsia spoke up, firebombings in Dam-Torsad.
And it all began with a Deathglow attack against Samiraās familyāthe family of someone who, in the past, spoke against Chakaid.
The āmilitary capability of the RKNā is a joke. The rise of Alar Chakaid can be traced to the capabilities of Khanidās friends, the Blood Raiders, and nobody else.
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Curious target choices, in light of the absence of any such criticism from Kador or Sarum houses. Both in fact offering solidarity with the Kingdom in the immediate aftermath. Kor-Azor nobles along with those aligned to Ardishapur having been so vociferous in their disapproval would have seemed more natural choices for someone intending to silence opponents.
If no laws of Holy Amarr were broken then Kingdom actions in Kahah being immoral is questionable. Disproportionate or heavy-handed perhaps, but immoral? Debatable.
And waiting for a Sociopathic empire to make amends and admit fault is a great ideaā¦
Not really. Theyāre rivals. Sarum, the House most aligned against Khanid in the past, set on the back foot. Kador, made to look ineffective and gasp look at that, Khanid gets Aridiaā¦
Mm. So curious.
Kor-Azor was, prior to the Empressās new direction, largely gelded. Ardishapur got hit (Thebeka).
So, so curious.
If murdering people because itās more convenient than using non-lethal means to subdue a population isnāt immoral, maybe that points to a flaw in your morality.
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That doesnāt particularly bear scrutiny, clearly Aridia being placed under Khanid control was a significant boon for them; however those you cite as being weakened and/or gelded were chief among the beneficiaries of the territorial reorganization, if it was an attempt to weaken rivals it was certainly limited in success.