You fully realize I don't have the time or energy to devote to sorting through your garbage, right? I got tired of that trying to roleplay with Chadd and Xilen.

But let me set one thing straight, which you know full well but continue to press since you seem to think it makes you sound smarter than you actually are.

The situations at Tholatin and Farquak are completely different from the one at Abregado-rae.

We both know this - that you continue to bring them up does little to build a case for you.

Farquak continues because there are no OOC issues.

There are here, yet you continue to post. Tholatin, I am in no way dictating his actions. I am merely informing him that his citizens are dead as a result of the two square kilometre area that has been levelled.

No, Ralen, you have not destroyed "most" of my forces, and you are by no means "mostly" in control of the planet.

Your fleet carries a few thousand soldiers at best, not more than 100 000 (though I don't have time to calculate).

Are you telling me that your forces are spread so thin as to put a garrison in every city on the planet?

You go on to contradict yourself. You target only military structures - yet "most" of the defenders are dead?

But wait! They're not sitting in military bases waiting to die!

So either you're actively destroying entire residential blocks in order to destroy my soldiers, or you've not destroyed a fraction of them.

Keep in mind that this is not trench warfare, this is gurrella tactics.

I just happen to have a larger force behind it.

Even assuming that "the majority" of the defenders are militia, and there are somewhere around ten million militia (a low estimate from a population of roughly one billion),

and another 10% of Imperial Army, that's one million Army - far more than you can field yourself.

Even assuming only one percent of the forces were army, they would still be equal to your forces, using the high estimate above.

And these are low estimates for Imperial defence.

So, you've managed to destroy the majority of these defenders across the entire world with a few minutes of bombardment and a small number of troops, who are outside their native enviorment and don't know the land, facing a combination of highly-trained Imperial soldiers (the best in the Galaxy) and hard-core fanatics defending their homes?

Remember that you begun this campaign by bombing the @#%$ out of the surface.

The citizens have already lived under the Coalition - they did not enjoy it.

Now you arrive and decide to attack the planet from space.

You think they're going to sit back and let you kill them? Yeah. Right.

Furthermore, you will not dictate the deaths caused by bombing a world from space. Orbital bombardment is a highly risky process with a massive margin for error.

Trying to strike a single structure in the midst of a city would, in all liklihood, achive massive casualties.

Not a "few hundred". Thousands - and climbing.

that Abregado-rae wanted no longer to be a part of the Empire.

However, if that is a ruling: Ralen, you may consider all of those militia units Imperial Army.

Here's the difference, Ralen. I spent days IC and OOC convincing the citizens to do what I told them.

Don't give me @#%$ about "You control their citizens!"

If you'll notice, the defence was centred inside the cities, in bunkers on corners and in buildings. So, again, either you've destroyed massive tracts of civilian and residential areas, or you've not accounted for a fraction of the defence.

You cannot have the best of both worlds.

But since you claim to control the entire world, or very nearly, I'll take that to mean you have only a small number of soldiers in every city on the surface. After all, the total number landed by your fleet isn't overly large, and there are a lot of cities.

You also do not dictate the actions of my civilians or forces. You can run around yelling "I told them to run and they did!" - it doesn't make it true.

I could say your fleet suddenly vanished and your soldiers all decided to shoot themselves in the head - it doesn't make it real.

So, answer me this: have you levelled the cities?

Oh, and just FYI. I took the time to check the little quote you've been running around with, and you know as well as I do that it's a simple mistake.

it was YOUR cowardice that led to their destruction.

I don't know what you were raised to believe but there simply aren't any military targets in residential tracts anywhere I've ever seen, lived, or heard of. Ever.

As you and the staff always say "There was no contestation" other than you trying to pile on these ridiculous kill counts.

Don't give me any of this "I'm glad to know that certain members from TRF use battle tactics wrought of the fedaeen." @#%$.

Of all the things I've heard on TRF, that is the very lowest. Unless it's escaped you, this is a GAME.

And my side happens to be the Empire. You know, the one that blew up Alderaan, enslaved thousands to build two Death Stars, and killed countless billions needlessly.

I'm glad to know that certain members of TRF cannot tell the difference between a game and reality.

Again, Ralen, your stating something as reality does not make it reality.

Not on a world belonging to the Empire. Whether you like it or not, you killed thousands of innocent civilians by bombarding their homes.

Wow. You don't say! I'm certainly happy that you can differentiate OOC and IC.

Perhaps not set in the middle of a neighbourhood, no. But the Pentagon is in the middle of Washington DC.

And there are dozens of missile silos in and around Denver.

But you'll notice I never said their bases were there. I said they were setting up there. As in, garrisoning civilian structures. If you would read the RP, as opposed to bullshitting your way though it, you would know that.

If only that were true... Granted, some of your posts have actually been legitimate. My apologies for having a life.

However, as you well know, most of your "advances" are a result of you sitting here going "@#%$ you, I'm posting whether you like it or not! you suck!"

You choosing to pretend your actions are realistic and ignore "contestation" does not make you right.

And then go on to claim that, while several cities have been fully levelled, there are only a few hundred casualties?

I estimated your total troop capacity at around 100 000. And you're right - that estimate was far out of whack. An ISD carries 9700 soldiers, and you have two. So there's 20 000, give or take.

Your other ships are quite small. So you have maybe 50 000 troops, and that's a stretch.

From these meger numbers, let's say that 5000 were killed by anti-air defences.

That brings you to 45 000 that ever reached the ground.

From there, another 5000 were killed disembarking.

Down to 40 000. From that, let's say that half were killed advancing and fighting to gain their positions.

That gives you roughly 20 000 troops

Now, for a little bit of comparison? The United States has somewhere in the region of 200 000 soldiers in Iraq, and is considering sending more to occupy it.

Iraq is a relitively small nation.

And yet to occupy it, the US requires 200 000 soldiers!

You have a tenth that number - 20 000 soldiers, attempting to hold an entire planet?

Or, you're in control of a very small percentage of the planet.