After watching Black Hawk Down, I got another injection of fuel to inspire me to explore Seriphyn's backstory regarding his time as a peacekeeper with the Federation Army and Marines on Lirsautton III during the Jin-Mei civil war...in turn it got me thinking the sort of scope there is in EVE for "urban combat" and "pacification of smaller subjects" sort of conflicts...
Gallente - Presumably, conflicts between colonies and smaller states is permitted to happen on the grounds of avoiding being culturally invasive...going from the civil war Jin-Mei piece of PF. I imagine the conflict to be similar to that in Somalia, with Sang Do overlords controlling areas of territory, and Federation military forces carefully leveraging control of others, without being too forceful, though perhaps using the help of a friendly Sang Do in order to justify any sort of invasion. Of course the civil war is over now presumably but the scope is there...
Amarr
The Araz constellation typifies the feudal system found throughout the Amarr Empire. Wherever widely different ambitions and talents meet a power surge is inevitable. Uriam Kador, one of the five royal heirs, is the liege lord of Araz and he likes to employ the 'divide-and-conquer' approach in his governing; allowing his feudal lords to duke it out between themselves, making it unlikely they will join forces against him and also giving him a clear idea of their strengths and weaknesses. The two most ambitious and powerful noble families in the constellation are the Arachnan family and the Methros family. The two families have been rivals for decades, but now their rivalry is on the verge of escalating to a full fledged war between them. Kador is closely monitoring the situation, not the least because of the sudden appearance of a sizeable force of Blood Raiders that seem intent on taking over the constellation.
One of my more favourite pieces of Amarr PF...and also a very good framework to get into the whole Black Hawk Down and peacekeeping sorta fiction...minor houses could fight amongst each other, and, if necessary, the larger house might just deploy a pacification force to keep things together...it also makes me wonder what exactly the sort of "grunt/infantry culture" of the Amarr militaries might be...we see a lot of insight into American soldier culture...
Caldari & Minmatar - The two factions I think have the least scope. I'm sure someone could provide an example for Minmatar, but even if the concept sounds cool, doesn't necessarily mean every faction has it...
An interesting point to discuss is the level of conflict between Caldari megas. Is it the sort of subterfuge between Lai Dai and SuVee as we saw earlier during their occupation of Gallente space? Or would we actually see "boots on the ground", violently taking an opposing city by force? I am somewhat getting the impression the Caldari may be the most space-based out of the four main empires so that might be unlikely. In addition, there is unlikely to be any sort of 'peacekeeping' as there is no higher authority.
Stain occupation - Something I think is really cool from the Ishaeka documents...a joint CONCORD endeavour that can be contrasted with RL UN operations...this has the greatest scope for "active, conventional ground warfare", as can be found in the description of ZH-KEV IX in
Ishaeka report. Very cool stuff, I wonder what happened to those occupation forces now? (Also, reference to 'largest ground offensive' omnomnom...less blitzkreig land wars -.-)
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Topic: Civil conflicts and peacekeeping (eg. Jin-Mei civil war and Amarr minor houses) (Read 2156 times)