Here trycksh0t let me educate a freebirth like you.
trycksh0t, on 08 November 2011 - 03:57 PM, said:
The Clans. "Kerensky's Children." "Kerensky's Chosen." "Saviors of the Inner Sphere." What a joke. I hear Clanners speak about honor, what honor? What honor is there in enslaving your beaten foes?
We do not enslave our isorla, in many cases the populations of the planets kept the same jobs, in occasional cases they would be tested to a job that may better utilize their abilities. Someone who is a skilled wielder but is unaware would be wasteful for them to continue to work in a warehouse, quiaff? The changes we did make had as long as the poor worked they were taken care of, fed, given shelter, clothed. As long as you provide for the Clan we will provide for you. The ones who would have problems are ones who were born in to a high ranked status as they now found themselves possibly in a different position, unless of course their skills warranted their position. The millitaries are disbanded and those who showed their warriors spirit, depending on the Clan can attain warrior status once more through dedication. Otherwise they serve as their bondsmaster's technician often enough.
You talk about lack of honor, but it is the Inner Sphere that has for centuries attacked civilian targets, bombed their infrastructure into oblivion. Please do not bother trying to point out Edo on Turtle Bay, as that was a isolated incident and the Star Colonel abore the Sabre Tooth (iirc) was repremanded. It was a unneeded waste of resource and personnel. I will point out Kentares where the Draconis Combine slaughtered the whole planets population. Which do you think is worse?
trycksh0t, on 08 November 2011 - 03:57 PM, said:
What honor exists in treating your most seasoned warriors like the dregs of society because they are "old"?
You fail to understand the exsistance the Clans had in the Kerensky Cluster and the Pentagon worlds. When we first established ourselves we had a very limited population, and an even more limited warrior caste. The implemention of our Old being brought back to train out sibkos was using our core philosophy of waste not. If we waste the lives of our skilled, who is there to train the next generation of warriors? We also do not force Warriors to become Solhama, they are given various options of how to proceed, often being assigned to another caste where the remainder of their skills can be used. Of course being warriors their desire to serve their Clan often has them continue service in the warrior caste in hopes of ending their service with honor.
trycksh0t, on 08 November 2011 - 03:57 PM, said:
Wat kind of honor do you have when you believe that you are somehow better than those who keep your 'Mechs working and your stomachs filled?
Most of the Clans do not think the way you seem to think they do. We realize that the lower caste are vital for making the well oiled machine that is the Clans possible, We the warrior caste are there to protect and uphold the lower caste. Do not make a mistake, the civilian castes honor us and understand that with out us, outside forces could destroy them, much like your inner sphere houses keep doing to each others innocent populations.
Five, Nicholas proclaimed, was the foundation
Upon which our true society was to be built.
Laborers to till the land, to do the tasks:
They shall have our undying gratitude,
For they are the muscle behind us all.
Merchants to buy and sell with fairness:
They shall have our commerce and respect,
For they are the bones upon which we are built.
Technicians to build and fix the machines:
They shall have our admiration,
For they are the fingers with which we grasp life.
Scientists to create and discover:
They shall have our awe and our attention,
For they are the mind of our society.
And above all, the Warriors who protect.
They shall have our cooperation and worship,
For they are the blood and soul of us all.
-- The Remembrance, Passage 67, Verse 26, Lines 21-37
Edited by CoffiNail, 08 November 2011 - 04:34 PM.
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