picketship: (frown1)
Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints ([personal profile] picketship) wrote in [community profile] kenoscomm 2024-02-22 04:35 pm (UTC)

It can and it has. Matter of scale, really.

[This isn’t to say there hadn’t been any smaller-scale conflicts in that span of time, but when the civilizations involved span entire branches of the galaxy and tens of trillions of people, the consequences of officially declaring war get pretty dire. At that point, the cost–benefit assessment gets pretty spicy.]

Believe me, I’d have loved to be around back when the main event was kicking off—though obviously, every ship that was is an antique now, if it’s still around.

[And the Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints is very much not an antique. Demeisen sighs, frustrated.]

Irony is, things were fucking finally getting interesting when I got dropped here. Fascinating though this particular little drama is, it really is like splashing around in the kiddie pool compared to a real fight between big, grown-up ships.

[He sighs again, but this time in wistful recollection. The ship had quite literally been having the time of its life when Demeisen was with it last—and no matter how much he might distract himself in Kenos, no pleasure he can find here could truly match it.

… Maybe he really should get high, after all.
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