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<blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 4081225" data-attributes="member: 29558"><p><strong>Pandak Kaswitikan - Disillusioned Dwarven Colonist</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray">"I'm thinking that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is - and we're being swindled. Apologies to those whose sensibilities I offend, but I find my Dwarven pragmatism has been stoked. You talk of great rewards for great risks, but it appears that the rewards are mostly to be gained by you rather than by us, and the risks taken by us rather than by you. My understanding is that you want us to found a colony for you - travel to parts unknown, brave unknown dangers, be out of contact with friends and family (unless we take them with us into the wild) for an unknown period of time. So far, that actually sounds OK. Here's where we get to the sticking points for me. In return for this enormous risk to life and limb, and for all of our hard work, the colony will be indentured to you all until the end of time - both financially to repay the initial loans (with substantial interest) and by the terms of its charter. To top it off, we're being 'granted' patents of nobility, the priviledge of which can be ours for the paltry sum of 30000 gold pieces - not actually a grant at all but a loan which indentures <em>us personally</em> to you for the rest of our lives (and our children's lives) - trying to pay of the initial sum as well as the substantial interest. In addition to which, as landholding nobility, we'll be required to send a portion of the bounty of our lands back to our sovereigns over and above the monthly cost of repaying the loans to cover the colony and our patents. Did I miss anything?</span></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray">Oh, yes, I'm also thinking that the difference between being a noble of one of our founding countries vs being a noble solely of the colony is subtle but not as substantial as all that - since the colony will be subject to the rule of these countries for eternity, nobles of the colony will be subject to that same rule."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maidhc O Casain, post: 4081225, member: 29558"] [b]Pandak Kaswitikan - Disillusioned Dwarven Colonist[/b] [COLOR=SlateGray]"I'm thinking that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is - and we're being swindled. Apologies to those whose sensibilities I offend, but I find my Dwarven pragmatism has been stoked. You talk of great rewards for great risks, but it appears that the rewards are mostly to be gained by you rather than by us, and the risks taken by us rather than by you. My understanding is that you want us to found a colony for you - travel to parts unknown, brave unknown dangers, be out of contact with friends and family (unless we take them with us into the wild) for an unknown period of time. So far, that actually sounds OK. Here's where we get to the sticking points for me. In return for this enormous risk to life and limb, and for all of our hard work, the colony will be indentured to you all until the end of time - both financially to repay the initial loans (with substantial interest) and by the terms of its charter. To top it off, we're being 'granted' patents of nobility, the priviledge of which can be ours for the paltry sum of 30000 gold pieces - not actually a grant at all but a loan which indentures [I]us personally[/I] to you for the rest of our lives (and our children's lives) - trying to pay of the initial sum as well as the substantial interest. In addition to which, as landholding nobility, we'll be required to send a portion of the bounty of our lands back to our sovereigns over and above the monthly cost of repaying the loans to cover the colony and our patents. Did I miss anything? Oh, yes, I'm also thinking that the difference between being a noble of one of our founding countries vs being a noble solely of the colony is subtle but not as substantial as all that - since the colony will be subject to the rule of these countries for eternity, nobles of the colony will be subject to that same rule."[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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