Not yet, I think.
Like the shade of Arthur, I'll be back when I'm needed.
I've had millennia of preparation for this.
I'll destroy it all myself before allowing Elamites or Vandals to cart it off as spoils.
There is a lot to be said for scorched Earth tactics. If I can't have what I built in peace, then neither will "they".
"They" can "rule" over a pile of ashes, and dig through them to try to find a morsel.
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Like the shade of Arthur, I'll be back when I'm needed.
I've had millennia of preparation for this.
I'll destroy it all myself before allowing Elamites or Vandals to cart it off as spoils.
There is a lot to be said for scorched Earth tactics. If I can't have what I built in peace, then neither will "they".
"They" can "rule" over a pile of ashes, and dig through them to try to find a morsel.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake