It's not; to me it's like going to a climate conference with a bunch of oppressive states there and making a big deal about their human rights issues.
This is bad comparison, because you're mentioning two seperate issues. Climate change can be dealt with without dealing with human rights.
But in our case, the existence of the Ishari is key to the problem and the solution. What you are proposing then is organizing a climate change conference, but banning the discussion of solar power because you don't want to upset the coal mining industry.
Ultimately, this discussion has been incredibly myopic because it focusses solely on one single thing, which is whether or not to appease the conservatives, and in doing so it ignores that this vote is not a single vote on the Ishari, it's a multi choice vote.
We have lost light of the forest for the trees.
There are many, many more things to consider. Even the inclusion of the Ishari is far more multifaceted than whether or not to deal with conservative disgust.
1) We have to admit that this is not the first proposal to a united coalition. One was tried 20 years ago, and Biel-Tan is still trying to murder us over the fallout of it's failure. So, for every minor craftworld, or major craft world, the idea of a united coalition, especially one led by conservative assets, will be utterly toxic. The disgust or lack of disgust from conservatives is far from the most important problem in creating a coalition. The most important problem will be to get people to work together with the people who may or may not have tried to murder them in the last 20 years.
2) We have to consider the political make-up of the meeting. We made the choice to focus almost entirely on inviting the major craftworlds. We spend only the minimal amount of influences on contacting the minor craftworlds, or the Exodites.
The result is that we have created a meeting in which the conservative factions are the most influential. Like, I don't disagree with the choices made, but we have to consider the results. We've already snubber the minor craft worlds and exodites, just by our distribution of invitations.
3) Any united front is easier said than done. Because as soon as you've made a front, you have to decide what that front is going to do, and whose going to be in charge of it. Our allegiance, in this particular matter, is clear. It was literally one of the defining votes at the start of char-gen.
[ ] To Guard the Soul, a Shield Alone is Insufficient (-3 points)
Asuryan's path is the way of defense—to concede the field lost, and hope that one may survive an endless siege. A fool's hope. Of eld your souls were forged into their present shape of shining, immortal crystal, yet the Soul-Drinker's birth has put a great crack within that shaping. Could you, perhaps, use that fracture to forge anew, a shape to reject the Dark Prince's claim? Perhaps it is hubris to even try, for you do not claim the secrets of the Old Ones, yet are you not their successors?
Reforge your souls as the Old Ones once did for the War in Heaven, in a way that actively rejects Slannesh. Will succeed at least as well as the Asuryani method at mitigating the influence of Chaos, effects beyond that highly unpredictable.
This alone renders the idea of a prolonged united coalition a faint hope, because hte conservatives will never stand for this.
4) Our personal political issues aside, those of conservatives come to the fore as well. Is a united front good, if all it decides upon is to rejigger the paths a little so that htey better combat the curse? We need a coherent plan of action, and a viable to the future, if we wish to have a sufficiently sized voice inside whatever arguments are raised at the moot.
But I said I wasn't here solely to talk about the Ishari.
Let's look at what the other choices of invitations are doing.
1) The Choice not to invite the sons means that, in our own delegation, and in our faction, we will be dramatically outnumbered. We will have little time to make deals or mingle at the meeting, and our allies (who all get a seat) will have a wide opportunity and expectation to act cindependently.
2) We have a focus on picking primary leadership figures and members of the old guard. No secondary figures invited.
3) We invite everyone of our allies, an intentional choice.
where does it say conservatives are a large portion of the moot? pretty sure mechanis implied us finding out about this was enough to get bt off our back by default. i would argue that the fact that only 2 of the 5 major craftworld had problems with us because of our radicalism implies a pretty standard number of conservatives over all amongst eldar
We spend a lot of AP inviting the conservatives, very little on inviting the independent craftworlds and exodites.
