[Dragaera] Is Kelly foolish?

[Howard Brazee]

  There are lots of examples in our world of revolutionaries who do the 
same things.

On 9/22/2010 12:32 PM, Louis Eastman wrote:
> So, Kelly's plan is to unify Easterners and Teckla against pretty much
> everyone else. He definitely has the advantage of numbers...but he speaks of
> forcing the Imperium to do things, while also speaking encouraging armed
> resistance like the shutdown of South Adrilinkha. What I don't understand is
> how he expects to win.
>
> For one thing, he assumes the vast majority of the populace will willing
> join him, which seems...optimistic. And ultimately it doesn't seem like he
> has an answer to the fact that the Empire, which has only one ranged weapon
> commonly available for the regular footsoldier, has a monopoly on sorcery,
> in addition to the fact that they face Pre-Empire sorcery AND the Orb. So
> while Kelly has the masses, the Empire has the equivalents of artillery/gun
> emplacements which negate that.
>
> This makes me wonder exactly what his long term plans are. Does he expect
> the some of the nobility will join him? Or that he can outfight sorcery with
> witchcraft? That the Teckla/Easterners won't break after a few massive
> defeats?
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