Socop, on 08 February 2015 - 09:58 PM, said:
The DCMS acts as one, it's kept us together when the rest of the game was attacking us and will keep us together the next time it happens.
I get that - but the nSL is a pretty big idea and requires unity across a lot of groups. A group within a faction that isn't interested in that is, end of the day, going to be of minimal benefit. Kurita has a lot to offer the nSL in terms of a great many of its experienced house units but some is better than none.
I'm saying Davion doesn't expect a sudden silence to fall on the borders, we're going to get hit from 3 sides like we have been. That's not going to change nor do we expect it to change. The nSL however is not an organization so much as an ideal; coordination of a large number of units against the Clans. Like many ideals it is not universal nor is its appeal.
While I applaud Kuritas desire for unification and harmony at no point should they feel like it's an either/or. If some Kurita mercs or a few house units keep knocking on Davions door so to speak that should not be construed as a failure of the nSL nor a reason for everyone else in Kurita to back out of it if they are otherwise committed to the nSL goals.
There's a lot of people and some small, disruptive groups who would love to see the nSL fail before it gets off the ground. Do not contribute to their odds of success; the nSL should welcome the units that Kurita can contribute in whole or in part and be grateful for whatever coordination they are involved in. If, in leading by example, those Kurita units who do participate in the nSL in time attract those Kurita units or mercs who did not originally then all the better.
While I'm not speaking on behalf of all of Davion here I do say that in my opinion any mercs or even faction units who still continue to attack Davion (as an example) should not be construed as a failure of the nSL or a lack of commitment from that House to the nSL. It's a nascent idea but a very noble one, drawing its first breaths and taking its first unsteady steps. Mistakes will happen, some will be more hesitant than others and that's alright. Some will never go along. Again, that's alright. You can't try to make it all or nothing.
Kurita or otherwise, those who will participate in the nSL need to do so with all due and appropriate focus and not be pulled astray by those who will not.