>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. :) Oh, a little thing like that... ;)
Yeah, that makes sense. It just struck me that, however much the WDF's rep has been rehabilitated, its onetime reputation as "an impartial force for good" has been too tarnished (albeit by those with an agenda that requires said tarnishing) to be taken at face value anymore, especially given where it falls in the Federation's current political divide.
"Everyone gets lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars..."
- Rush, "The Pass"