Apollo

Day 4,759, 03:46 Published in USA USA by George Barker

A simple reminder of what Apollo is -- and is not. Apollo is a collection of countries with nothing in common other than a desire to huddle under the shield of Asteria. That's it. What it is not is an alliance. It has no autonomy: it does what Asteria tells it to do -- nothing more. The members (can you name a single one?) have no ties, no shared purpose, history, ideology: their one uniting factor is the willingness to serve Asteria. Apollo is not an alliance, but a collection of countries with a name slapped on it. It's like taking a bunch of junk parts out of a wrecking yard, jamming them together and calling the resulting thing a "car." It doesn't drive, it sure as hell doesn't have a steering wheel, you can't even sit in it, but it has four wheels and a chassis, so it's a car. You're paying thousands of gold a month for that "car."


After months of shameless bootlicking, of fracturing our society by ramming something at least half the population clearly does not want down its throat, of attacking weak countries, stabbing former allies in the back, writing lying articles in the media for them (who are these lies meant to fool? You.), of giving up our regions so Asteria countries can farm thousands of gold a month out of them -- far more than they get anywhere else -- they "reward" us with the chance to join this joke of a non-alliance. You will note that the people wanting to join never say anything good about it. It's a pig so ugly no amount of lipstick will ever make it look like anything other than what it is: an ugly pig. It's what we were offered by Asteria, so we have to take it, like we do everything else.

Being offered the chance to join Apollo is like being a waiter, working your ass off for a rude, drunk, demanding customer, and getting a penny tip. It's not a reward, but an insult. And these guys want you to pocket it and be grateful.