No, the point is to recognize that a friendly fleet is stranded in our borders cutoff from their government; thus it is necessary them to will be commanded for the period of communication blockade. This ensures the fleet will remain with a government's control with clear understanding on each other's obligation. Zero grey area and making sure the relationship remains stable even if goodwill has ran out.
Dude, this is a solved problem.
Naval fleets have historically operated for months and years out of range of political control with their head admiral acting as plenipotentiary governmental representative, as far back as the sixteenth century at least, when Elizabeth Tudor would send Drake off on a year and half campaign against Spanish interests literally an ocean away, from Spain to Cape Verde to Colombia to Florida.
Co-belligerents have operated out of the ports of allies without demanding control of each other's fleets.
Furthermore, our military requirements do not require us to have control of them. Even if they just sit in Attican Beta and watch the relays, it suits us fine.
Remember that any political field with a democracy or muti-party systems will see rapid changes in popularity because the population have short-attention span and memory. In addition to lack of party for Mira, a rather large weak point with giant "hit here" target.
This is not a political simulation.
And furthermore, the population does not have a short attention span when aliens who literally want to genocide them are a pair of Relay jumps away.
That's like asking chickens to forget there is a chickenhawk overhead.
Simple, it's either the fleet getting eaten by Rachni or starved to death then suffer epic public confidence backslash or getting the fleet back and enjoy a wonderful public photo-op of historical happiness that dilutes sadness and pain.
This is a false dichotomy.
There is zero indication of a public confidence backlash; the public trusts the PC to handle military and diplomatic affairs until she fucks up bigly.
She hasn't yet.
I'm pretty sure that territory was declared a "neutral" buffer zone, which generally means nobody does anything there without telling the other side. Which was not what had happened, and counts as hostile action. Spying was also discovered with proof under their embassy within our fully sovereign sewer system, another black mark.
No it wasn't.
Neither SO4 nor SO7 was officially declared a neutral zone.
Nothing they did there was illegal by the letter of the law; shat all over the spirit, but not the letter.
Spying? Everyone spies on each other.
It's the breadth of their operation that's irritating, not that they're spying.
Lystheni is fully aware that they will be eaten by the bugs or crushed like a bug if the Virmire government suffer system failure. Except that Mira is not the un-replaceble equivalent of the Virmire government because we did too well in cleaning up the place and installing effective people. The existence of the assemble and the fact that the strongest PM of all time accepted an election during time of war gave enormous amount of advantage to weaken and even unseating Mira. Therefore Lystheni have every reason to weaken or remove Mira from Virmire and will not actually have to worry about getting eaten by bugs.
Your assertion is that in the middle of a genocidal war, the Lystheni consider it in their interest to undermine the single best admiral on the side preventing them from becoming dinner.
And not just that, to risk punitive economic, and possibly military action by their only trading partner.
Yeah, I don't buy that. You need more people.
I feel like as long as allies are on the offensive we'll be fine. But as soon as they halt the offensive and attempt to regroup, plan, and fortify their conquest, The Rachni can leave a defensive garrison by the border and send in a proper assault fleet to finally remove us as a threat. We're no longer something they can keep hemmed in with a skeleton force while they deal with bigger issues. We're possibly one of the biggest problems they have atm.
As threats go, I doubt we're that far up on the list.
The quarians just punched a multi-dreadnought fleet through the Hades Nexus and much of the Nubian Expanse and their defensive fleets.
The Terminus is kicking off a full-fledged offensive aimed at taking away multiple systems from Rachni control.
We only managed to pull off a pair of successful raids and one unsuccessful one, and we haven't actually produced any dreads yet.
After we took Attican Beta, we went up significantly as a threat vector, but everyone else seems to have raised their threat rating enough for us to fade into the background. But we'll see what our Rachni attention is after this stunt.
