<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote>Quote:<hr> "And, on a galactic note about honour, if a duel between people is barbaric, why are the Jedi not ostracized for their random and frequent bouts with others who tote them mono-e-mono?"

-Viscount del Forza<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->

Well, damn, I don't know, why don't you go ahead and ask, like, the Jedi?

Justifying your foolish actions and words with playground reasoning -- Why can't I do it if Bobby can? -- is akin to retorting "I know you are but what am I" in response to a question regarding foreign economic policy at a political debate.

You can't defend your own ignorance by fingering the Jedi. After all, they can make plates float, so when one destroys an entire star system, he's pardoned for their actions and given a pat on the head.

Just because the Jedi got an ice cream cone and you didn't doesn't excuse you from acting like those you seem to treat with such distain.

And "tote" means "to carry".

-Viryn Quell,
Freelance Author

OOC-I meant taunt. My mind is far from in the right place.

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> From the desk of the Viscount Ierin del Forza.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->
IC

" The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force."

These words were uttered by Lord Dath Vader, who had seen first hand the destruction of worlds, the annihilation of societies, and the subjugation of countless races.

It is hardly the place of myself as a man or an officer, nor that of my government to question a former Jedi's statement after being informedly able to compare the two.

However, the ability to slag a planet and lay waste to an entire civilization using the machinery of war and the intellect of battle is beyond the comprehension of a Jedi.

Controlling Fate is true power. Levitating a fighter or moving a fleet from a system is awesome, but not true power. Nobility by helping others and acting as a galactic police force, then yes. They are most noble establishment in the galaxy.

Power, does not lie with that, though. The fleet will return, or summon others in its place. Jedi's perish in the pursuit of their code, and Fleets are dispatched in their pursuit of victory. There are a limited number of Jedi, but every man and woman in the galaxy either carriers a weapon, or knows how to summon some one who does.

The power of the force is unlimited.

The determination of people to attain their ultimate end is absolute. Absolution and limitlessness will always collide, and determination will always prevail. Thus the saying, mind over anti-matter.

This duel of wits and intellects is concluded.

Further response from the Sovereign Jutraalian Empire will arrive, as per official statement.

I am merely a spokesman for my master, and the government he has created and I serve. If we could all pick and choose where we were born and what we believed, existence would be a misnomer.

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> From the desk of the Viscount Ierin del Forza.<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

*The unblinking stare of the emperor's good friend Admiral Telween came through then, a hateful gaze in his normally calm eyes.*

So sure are you fools and liars of the galaxy? So easy are you to demand war. The Jutraalian Empire's notion of peace? How dare you! How dare any of you to act as though you know what peace is, you are vultures wishing to peck from the empire's carrion! You all disgust me in ways I could not begin to fathom.

So this is it...you would let a murderer walk free before turning him in for justice. What kind of Jedi are you? Obviously not very good ones! Rather would you let a murderer walk free because you contempt the person he attempts to murder, than actively attempt to enforce justice by allowing his capture.

You have demanded peace, but only through blood. Well I tell you now, my forces have had enough of this. You want blood?

*the admiral removed his rank insignia and tossed it to the ground*

You shall have blood, by my hands, nay the emperor's. You truly want to see pain? For that is all you have been asking for. Truly am I disgusted by these 'oh the emperor CAN'T be sick' 'oh let the emperor die' 'oh forget peace, forget justice...all that matters to me is that I get a peace of Emperor Fearsons's empire'.

We'll see...we'll see.

*the holovid fades out*

Funny. If TRE cared so much about peace and so little about land, logically they would accept the peace proposal offered by the Empire. Logically, if TRE cared so little about bullying others out of their property, they WOULD NOT HAVE BUILT A DEATH STAR!

TRE's pitiful attempt to seize a bereaved status, preserve their total military might while at the same time proclaiming that they want peace is utterly, utterly preposterous.

When and if we give Warlord Fearsons the materials to build his Trojan horse by failing to act decisively in this war of liberation, we will find him encamped inside our cities, and putting them to the sword. When and if we give Warlord Fearsons said leeway, we will shortly find another Death Star primed for attack by this same warlord. And when they are yet again discovered for their renewed treachery, they will yet again call out to the masses and proclaim that it is a diplomatic station, or an interstellar food court, or a weather ship, or a new breed of snubfighter.

And, further proving that Warlord Fearsons maintains an audience who will actively believe his preposterous lies, the Neutralists will declare yet again that they will take no action to defend themselves or others from this despicable man and his monstrous desire to send us all paddling towards the river Styx.

While the Empire is no better for it, Admiral Aevan Drakiss makes good points.

Not points that haven't already been said, but good points.

-Viryn Quell,
Freelance Author

The obvious facts are incriminating enough against TRE.

Actually there are no "obvious facts against TRE", it is you offering people my planets so they'll gladly say whatever the @#%$ you want them to.

"Telween, you're stupidity baffles me. I remind you, that the only murderer I have ever encountered..."

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--> He looked away<!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->

"...is dead. If you knew anything of the Jedi, you'd realize that we do not, in any way shape or form, let murderers walk free. If you are so gutsy, so noble...go tell Gash Jiren that he lets murderers walk free. Go to the Jedi Council on Naboo and inform them that they let murderers walk free. But I do not see you doing such things. Perhaps because you are not as unwise as you seem. Do not knock all the Jedi for the opinion of a few. That is a grave mistake, and I again inform you, fighting all the Jedi is a battle you would surely lose."

Press Release from the Mon Calamari Republic.....
The leaders of the Mon Calalamari Republic suggest that Mr. del Forza should do his homework before he makes pointless and sutpid threats. The <!--EZCODE BOLD START--> second-in-command<!--EZCODE BOLD END--> of the Mon Calamari Republic Elian Toritho would take him up on his challenge accept he does not wish to embarass the Empire and it's spokesman anymore. the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--> Rogue<!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Empire has lost enough people recently that it doesn't need to lose anymore even if he is a stupid egosticial savage Imperial.

I'm not sure what's more embarassing.

The fact that a person who is obviously of such low intellectual stature is actually second in command of the Mon Calamari Republic, or the fact that you just used a retort that little Imperial children were using in Imperial Standard Schools on Carida when my father was a child.

Regardless of the answer to that eternal paradox of a connundrum, allow me to remind Mr. Toritho and Mr. del Forza that diplomacy is not the arena where the neanderthal disputes of two primitive halfwits who feel pettily insulted by the other may be settled.

If you're going to humiliate your respective organizations, at least do it while discussing issues which matter.

-Viryn Quell,
Freelance Author