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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Christopher O'Regan</b>
on <!--date-->17:45 2/2/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="298.html">Xurno and some other stuff</a> posted by Irgend Jemand</b> on 16:09 12/31/01
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Yes, Happy New Year, everyone! I don't know how they celebrate it in
cooler climes, but New Years around here is an opportunity for general
running around, quaffing and carousing and such. And the fireworks, of
course.
<p>Just on Xazno: Don't assume that colonies will automatically want their
independence from the "mother country". Take for example the case of
Australia: around the time of Federation nobody really thought that
full independence from Britain was a good idea - we needed the strength
of the Imperial Navy to safeguard us from the Asian hordes. Xurno
similarly would provide more resources to fend off the
barbarians. Britain also provided a market for wool, the mainstay of the
economy. And while Aussies by this time of course were quite different to
the Poms, they really did consider Britain a mother country, and the
cultural ties were very strong. Better to be within the Empire than
without it. Of course, times change . . .
<p>And of course the Xurnese have laid great stress on the unity of the
Axunaic peoples. I spose another anaology, a lot more tenuous, would be
the Reunification in Germany (I don't however, pretend to know much about
that). Their differences were not nearly as strong as their
commonalities.
<p>again, happy new year everyone, the last palindromic one we will have in
a long time. . .
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>The Xazengri notables welcome the new Xurnese governor: "I'd like to
welcome the arty bastard to God's own earth, and remind him that we
don't like stuck-up sticky-beets here..."
<p>(Perhaps Aussies get awfully tired of that sketch!)
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