This is so sad
This war was one of the most interesting things that happened recently on the server.
Eh, Its not over over, its just over. I'm sure some new kind of conflict will spark a war very soon.. likely amongst the same people as before.[DOUBLEPOST=1361606658][/DOUBLEPOST]
Not like this, at least, and not easily. I doubt this war will end with them being done, more likely, if Argonia is going to be the loser at all, it will just be that they are crippled, and forced to surrender. But an empire like that won't just die. They will inevitably rise again after this, even if it isn't as grand as it was this time.
War is never easy, Golem. A faction as stubborn and savage as Argonia shan't go down easily, no-- assuming they go down at all. But, Empires that die, die. They stay dead. All the empires of the worlds past are gone today, are they not? You don't see most of Europe being called "The Roman Empire" do you? Europe isn't under control of Germany currently, is it? As shown by recent history, trade and capitalism put empires in the shadows, and the need and want for imperialism vanishes.
When an Empire falls from glory, it falls all together. The empiric age of the Imperials glory was short, but indeed glorious (depending on your definition of the term glorious), and they have fallen from grace as far as I am concerned. They fall so far down that they themselves are able to be pillaged by savage, undeveloped, unruly creatures (to use the romans as an example again, around the end of the roman empires reign, Rome was sacked and then occupied by Mongols for a while-- Those fantastically savage, yet sophisticated Mongol bastards controlled Rome for a while at the end of its imperial era.) which in terms of the server would be something like a faction of feral Tigrans or savage Orcs, or Vespids. At the end of an empires life, it collapses in on itself one way or another. Be it incredibly high and unreasonable costs (hence the ending of the British empire most recently in the world), constant civil war and change in leadership (Rome), the death of dictators (The Mongolian empire), ect.
An Empire may attempt to rise back up to its previous, glorious state, but it never works. The re-risen empire lasts for a much shorter period of time, and either disbands, or disappears all together. Though, after the fall of the imperials, they may rise again, many times even, they shall always fall back down- because their foundation is weak from whatever split them in the first place.
