On 12/5/05, Ken Koester <kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov> wrote: > Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > >In order to launch a conquest, what you need to do is: > > > >(a) convince those that like to fight that there will be plenty of fighting. > >(b) convince those that like profit that there will be plenty of loot. > >(c) convince anyone not in the above that the target of the conquest > >is a terrible threat. > >(d) convince everyone that anyone who is skeptical about the venture > >is a traitor, or just too weak. > > > > > > > That's what you need to do on Earth. It doesn't necessarily follow that > that's what you need to do in the Dragaeraverse. > Bah. I'm generalizing from one universe, here. Besides, there's nothing to indicate that Dragaerans are somehow lacking in combatativeness, greed, xenophobia, and vulnerability to propaganda. Indeed, rather the opposite.