Had it been the NUN government, would this count as a war crime?

Take 07: Goddammit, Kaifun!

"Your people are starving out there! Starving and getting sick! And for what?! To pay for a fleet that would only slow down a Zentraedi branch fleet, let alone the NUNS if they were actually serious!"

Roid had no idea what hole Lynn Kaifun had crawled out from, but the human had gone to the king and started preaching for formal peace with the New United Nations and an untraditional infrastructure.

"Wait a minute! How would they even come here when they don't know the route through the expanded fault?!" Roid countered.

"Once in a while a Zentraedi fleet show up with some weird equipment, and anyway they could just defold out of the fault and come here the slow way, assuming they don't defold in orbit by chance. As for the NUNS, three words: reinforced fold drives. They have upgraded all the fortress groups and half the Galaxy Patrol and colony fleets, and a couple thousands upgraded ships will just go through and defold in orbit as soon as you alienate your supporters in the General Assembly and they have settled the current emergency.
"No, the only way is to cut back the military spending, make a formal peace and establish a decent infrastructure to become self-sufficient. This way you'll also make your detractors lose face for describing you as little more than uplifted barbarians."

"That is contrary to our culture!"

Kaifun just smiled the same way a cat smiles before pouncing on a sleeping mouse. Roid didn't like that smile at all. And as the human showed him the difference in persuading skills between a missed priest and an experienced politician that learned the ropes on Earth before the Space War, the poor chanchellor wondered who had brought him there.


In the meantime, Berger and his assistants were enjoying the show from his ship thanks to the camera Kaifun was wearing.

"Boss, how did you convince him?" one of the assistants asked.

"He wasn't with the fake Fire Bombers by choice, he just had signed the contract without looking and didn't have the money to pay for the penalties. So when I did just that he was willing to do anything… And as it happens, I asked him to do something he would have done anyway. So, I give him ten minutes before Gramia stops with the nonsense and asks us to set up a proper infrastructure!"

"A thousand on twenty!"

"Two thousands on five!"

Author note: Yep. Lynn Kaifun, the hardcore pacifist turned demagogue from the original series. Spent a few years as the manager of a cover band that pretended they were the original Fire Bombers and Basara's group stole their shtick…