>This raises a question in my mind, though -- why not just go the
>distance, and formally make the WDF Zeta Cygni's national military?
>Many political observers see it as such in a de facto sense, the fine
>print of its contract allows it to act as such, and Zetan politics
>seem to be aligned with those of the WDF high command.There is an admittedly small but nonzero chance that someday, the policies of the Wedge Defense Force and those of the Republic of Zeta Cygni may find themselves at variance - and I mean severely at variance, to the same degree as, say, the WDF's and those of the provisional "post-monarchist" government of Salusia following the 21st-century assassination of King Jerka (see Rite of Passage). Were that to happen, it would be less awkward if the resulting confrontation was technically not an internal military coup d'état. :)
--G.
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