ANTIcarrot wrote:Careful. Questioning the Way of Fel can get you burned as a hieratic round here. That said...
Harassing Fel for more chapters gets you burned, not asking questions about why things are the way they are in his stories.
Hearly wrote:1st, The Mindbenders [...] It seemed it was the Imperuim doing it and not Trilliane,
Remember that (despite what some round here with to believe) Jason and Jyslin are not oracles, especially at the start of the story, and are proven wrong about many things as the plot progresses. At this point it is said they *believe* it's the imperium. But Fel never actually says it was. The Trillane could done all sorts of things to obscure what they were doing. Or it coudl just be a revision error Fel never got around to fixing.
It doesn't have anything to do with Jyslin. At the beginning, for Jason, the Imperium and the Trillane are the same thing. There is no difference to him. It is only about halfway through when he starts attacking the Trillanes that he realizes that it is the Trillanes that are at fault, not the entire Imperium. That is why he is very careful to point that out in his statement and in his attacks.
2nd, Slavery, why was the Empress so upset about Trilliane Selling Humans into slavery
She probably sees Farm Work as a form of 'conscription' and 'necessary policing policy'. Like prisoners in the US get paid a dollar an hour for making License plates. And...
Ummm, no. When the Imperium subjugated Earth, they became Imperial citizens with the same rights as the Faey. That is the first reason. The second is that the Trillane were not just selling them into slavery, they were enslaving them so that the enslaved humans would be the cannon fodder for a Trillane army set on overthrowing the Merranes(??) as the Imperial House.
3rd, Trilliane didn't own Earth, it was owned by the Imperuim so why could the Trillianes come in and disband all governments and totally change around the planet, there are other Races in the Imperium were they treated the same way at the start, and over time they became "real" citizens?
Earth was owned by the Imperium, but it was "rented/leased" by the Trillane to produce food for the Imperium. As long as the Trillane didn't get caught doing anything against the Imperial laws, there is probably little the Imperium could do. I don't think that Fel has revealed a lot to us about what exactly are the rules/laws that are put in place when a species is subjugated by the Faey, or on the house that takes a contract like the Trillanes.
The Empress knows the Trillane's are planning war. She also knows they will break Impreial law right left and center if they think they can get away with it. She was probably giving them all the rope they wanted in the hopes they hung themselves, as they ended up doing.
The Empress is also not Rainbow Bright. Unlike sennadar's magic goddess there are real and fundamental limitations to her power. She HAD to give earth to the Trillanes, remember? Not being able to tell them exactly how to behave on Earth is probably one of those limits, in part because doing otherwise woudl expose the bluff that 'my house is bigger than yours' that she's been running, and probably non-interference rules in the house charter.
She didn't have to give Earth to the Trillanes, but they were the ones who probably put in the most attractive bid for the contract. As for not being able to tell them how to behave, Trillane had to treat the citizens of Earth as Imperial citizens. They had the same rights as the Faey. However, the Empress only gets status reports from Earth as provided by the Trillane. If they falsify the data good enough so that it can't be detected, there is little she can do.
Fel has stated that the Faey are humans who were transplanted on Draconis and developed telepathy there.
Cite please??
Wasn't it Songa who said that because Earth and Draconis were almost exactly the same, it (was) highly probably that the development of the major species would follow similar evolutionary pathways.
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I still find the universal surrender unbelievable, unless the world leaders were being telepathically prodded. Logically if the Faey want the planet there is a limit to how much damage they can do, and in a conventional car the Humanity might stand a chance against an enemy at the end of a long supply chain.
Only up to a point. The fact is that when the Faey invaded and conquered Earth, their technological superiority was so high that humans simply couldn't match it. They controlled space, so they could send down kinetic bombardment weapons at wiiol. There is nothing earth could have done to prevent the Faey from doimg what they want. When you combine that very large stick with the carrot of advanced technology and medical advances, it doesn't take much to see how it was inevitable.
There's more to it of course (telepathy etc) but the world leaders should have acted based upon what they knew at the time, not what Jason knew two years later.
That only works if the technological levels are close. When they are as far apart as they were, it's not surprising. Also, Jason had access to Faey technology. He trained on it and could purchase Faey parts over Civnet (or through Kumi). WHen Earth was being invaded, do you think that was possible?? Not at all.
Some crop dusting & economics. What happened to the world economy is never explained. If Trillaine smashed it to pieces and shut down every company that took their fancy (like Boeing, Microsoft, AMD) that would do much more damage than a mere 3 million kidnapped humans. (Not to be too callous, but about that many die of old age on earth each day.) If they did behave like Nazis and commit acts of 'economic cleansing', why don't peopel hate them like the Nazis? If they didn't, why weren't more powerful humans capable of carrying on as business as usual? A lot of what Fel tells us is contradictory. A more cohesive view of the situation on Earth would have been nice.
There is a lot of stretching in this last paragraph that really has no basis in the parts of what Fel has provided.
