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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1781082" data-attributes="member: 6390">THE PEACE/PUNISHMENT LINEWith the lessons that both history, and The Obelisk has taught Terra-Sol Humans one lesson in particular. Make war to the best of your civilizations ability, for half-measures extend the war out and cause more fatalities on both sides, as well as more devistation.However, with the vast populations and territories in the galactic arm, the Confederacy needed to come up with a way to insure that once a war was over, it would be a LONG time until the defeated considered another war.The answer was brutal, and pragmatic. Protohumans had attempted to minimalize the damage when fighting, only to have thier enemies assist and rearm their defeated foes, and having thier defeated foes come right back in a very short amount of time. Only at the end of the G'Tak/Protohuman War, did the protohuman's change tactics to one that worked quite well.The One Percent Line.By taking the entire population down to 1% of it's original level, completely removing enemy population and facilities from all but 1% of thier worlds, and totally destroying thier military/agriculture/educational/religious/industrial capacity.This ensured that whomever the Terran Confederacy faced in combat, and defeated to this level, would think long and hard before facing the Confederacy again. While the Confederacy dictated terms, they often (so far, in every war) allowed the defeated to put forward requests.The Confederacy follows the following guidelines on requests.While the cleaning of the devestation of the war is allowed, major geographical effects due to warfare will be left as a reminder.Technology granted to an enemy that has been brought to the 1% mark shall not be rebuilt by the Confederacy above the level of 21st Century Terra. Only defeated human's and thier created races shall be exempt for this law by having copies of The Obelisk available to them.For a period of no less than 200 years shall the defeated be allowed space assets, a military, a defense force, or weapons manufacturing. Confederate Marines and Naval assets shall occupy the planet. Any attacks deemed "act of war" in nature against those assets shall result in the population being taken down to the 1% mark, based on the racial population at the moment of the attack.While seemingly brutal to many races and philosophers, this has proven a necessary tactic in order to maintain the existance of Terran Human. As the Shivak and Restillian Wars have shown, the hatred of the protohuman ancestors has carried on to the Humans, as have the distain other races held for the defeated protohumans.Despite expectations, both the Shivak and the Restillian populations closely matched their pre-Line numbers within 100 years.</blockquote>

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