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Interstellar Relations, Monday, 5th Period

Oct 16, 2006 15:19

Professor Roslin was seated on the front edge of her desk, glasses ( Read more... )

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once_a_king October 16 2006, 19:58:27 UTC

Peter Pevensie

notthehulk October 16 2006, 20:41:56 UTC

Teddy Altman

tatooine_doofus October 16 2006, 21:03:27 UTC

Luke Skywalker

ktarian_wildman October 16 2006, 21:24:45 UTC

Naomi Wildman

Thread 12

1st Question once_a_king October 16 2006, 20:00:08 UTC

Peter thought for a second before volunteering an answer. "The Napoleonic wars were so huge, so destructive, perhaps the alliances against France still carried over as well as the memories of the war inspiring the work towards peace?"

Re: 1st Question mparkerceo October 16 2006, 23:44:24 UTC

"Possibly. It's also possible that no one had the resources to keep fighting for a generation. *No one* won that set of wars, in the sense of coming out without casualties, whether resource or human. Geographically, too, this set of alliances was set up to keep things simple. Natural borders worked to keep nations in check."

Re: 1st Question once_a_king October 16 2006, 23:50:35 UTC

Peter frowned. "But this was a time of major industrial and economic expansion. The colonies in Africa, Asia, India. I think the resources could have been found if there were cause. Besides, can a country emerge from *any* war without casualties?"

Re: 1st Question mparkerceo October 17 2006, 02:30:39 UTC

"Maybe not," Parker said, leaning back, and thinking. "But they'd also been occupied; been threatened with having their cultural identities subsumed into France. More time for rebuilding was needed, and a period of interior isolation only made sense. The Colonies were already up and running at this point, it was just expansion into the interior, not the initial outlay. Look at the cause that actually started World War I-- one assasination, at the right time and place. Because the mood was right. The mood wasn't right in the 1840's and 50's."

Thread 7

2nd Question cat_in_the_box October 16 2006, 21:55:47 UTC

"Nothing really unifying about them?" Schrodinger suggested. "After all, if you have a bunch of secret plots trying to hold itself together, it sounds like it'd eventually just topple like a house of cards. Each alliance is seperate within itself and might not convince other states to join together."

Re: 2nd Question mparkerceo October 16 2006, 23:53:35 UTC

"Not to mention the whole 'secret' aspect. That probably lasted only a couple months before everyone suspected everyone else of being in alliance with Bismarck against the others."

Re: 2nd Question hera_rises October 17 2006, 03:06:48 UTC

Laura nodded. "So paranoia and secrecy. Anyone else care to hazard a guess?"

Sidebar Discussion hera_rises October 16 2006, 22:08:00 UTC

Not that Laura really supports this, but she knows teenagers will be teenagers and talk amongst themselves.

After Class hera_rises October 16 2006, 22:10:32 UTC

Roslin takes a few moments to power down the SmartBoard, and then her portable computer. She didn't appear to be in too much of a rush as she packed everything up.