Possible but unlikely.
That latter part there? Its a tautology. The decision as to whether or not violence is legitimate is something decided purely through the application, or credible threat, of violence.
This is a modern nationstate definition.
No, it's not. Now, please bear with me, since I am NOT a political scientist, but I understand the term legimtate as used here to mean that both the state apparatus and the subjects see it legitimate. Meaning that, on average, a citizen of the state would respond with "yeah, it was legitimate" when asked about it.
What definition of a nationstate would you use then?
Generally, I know it when I see it.
Kind of obvious, but I guess it works.
I'd put it down as an entity of significant size that has at least one place where it may project force where it does not answer to the authority of another power. Even if its purely profit driven, if a corporation could operate with impunity without having to maneuver around laws or the general 'don't make me come over there' capacity of a greater state I'd happily consider it a state unto itself. At that point you are playing Shadowrun.
a hostile white courts still a nightmare since there's no way they'd fight with conventional tactics they can drop in and out of the nevernever in areas with their affiliated emotions. Also its not like they don't use modern weapons either and I'm fairly sure they can pull off rituals of some kinds. Oh and can fuck with command structure with thralls and such.
Yes, but if they are widely known about I would expect them to be as destroyed as the black Court.
Probably though again they could wreak devastation in the meanwhile. Especially with all the information they have.
Why? The reasons for the Black Court being destroyed were twofold: they had several easily exploitable weaknesses and in addition to humanity, several other supernatural powers helped to kick them together.
Doubt it.
And bullets a weakness the black Court doesn't share.
Yes you can just have only happily married commanders. Which might be a pain to manage, but I expect that the brass would appreciate it.
I wouldn't expect it to outright stop, but pulling back from an operation of questionable value in our immediate vicinity for a short time to reassess the situation wouldn't be unusual.
You're kind of assuming victory by default here. The social game is where the white court eats, and by denying them that you're basically doing the same thing as declaring wizards would definitely lose X fight as long as it happens in an antimagic field.
Good thing that there is an easy way to test for it. Have them shake hands with someone happily married and check for burns.
We have seen Whampires with combat-time regen from shortrange shotgun fire.
1)True Love protects from Raiths.
They have regeneration, of course less strong than the Black Court, so you would need several high caliber weapons to take a Whampire down. That is, of course, as long as they stand in the open until they die and don't use their superhuman physical abilities to dodge or flee, manipulation of lust, fear and horror, to turn soldiers against themselves, magic rituals, support of other supernaturals like summoned demons etc.
Considering the weakness you're mentioning is "true love" and not "a good relationship", which is explicitly a rare trait too, it's the weakness of only a third of the Wampires, leaving the other two families free to do as they please, and that just doesn't let the Wampires that are affected feed or directly touch the users (that I know of), leaving several avenues of how to deal with them, for example, controlling someone else and killing those commands you mentioned.
They can make deals with those who control the passages that they will use like the White Council will with Winter and while NeverNever is dangerous for long periods of time, it would be much less to them than the average human or wizard, and they wouldn't need to spend much time. time just get in and out at some point near a base or large groups of soldiers and then play gleeful chaos with their minds.
white court has multiple types so happily married only protects against one and only defends against touch. So not that great a defense.
True Love, a rare trait, not Happily/ Good Marriage, which ironically is also a rare trait just less than the first one which does not confer any protection, Justine was not married to Thomas nor Dresden to Susan and both have true love. One has nothing to do with the other.
Same for WOD vampires, shotgun blasts are one of the best modern weapons against them.
That's a test for one type, and true love isn't that common. Happily married isn't the bar, and measuring if it's enough is complicated if you're not a wizard.
Not just that.
That's the thing.
