Gilamar Skirata
The most important step is always the next one
Yup that grammar in the title is accurate. Today I want to talk about "Leaders" and "leaders". What I've seen far too often on this board are factions, factions that are built up to be these grand governments holding billions, even trillions of peoples. They say they have councils, and government officials, and this and that, and then the ones going around making IC decisions for these factions, meeting other Leaders of factions are these...leaders.
Now what is the difference from a Leader and a leader? A Leader, in my mind at least, is the person who should be, but as is the case on this board, usually not, the In Character leader of said faction. That would be like the Mand'alor or the Lord/Lady Protector in the Mandalorian and Omega Protectorate factions respectively. A leader, is a character, who while holding some sway in each faction and holds a decent amount of IC power, is the ACTUAL leader of the faction, OOC and IC, for whatever reasons, despite said faction having a position in their government that should be holding true power. These leaders go around making IC dealings with other Leaders and leaders. For example, and I'm not bashing y'all for this. A meeting between the Sith Empire (Manda bless your soul) and the Republic. Realistically, an ideal meeting would be with the Leader of the Sith, the Emperor and the Chancellor/Vice Chancellor and a few Jedi Masters for protection. However, what actually happens is the Grandmaster of the Jedi order, a religious body, and sometimes soldier farm of the Republic. Leader and leader contact. While I understand that most of that faction's writers are Jedi, what it LOOKS like, at least in the mind of Gilamar Skirata is that the Jedi have usurped the Republic's government and are one step away from staging a coup. Hence his distrust of the Jedi with them leading the charge on all these "Land grabbing" actions that have brought them to his doorstep.
Now, I know this isn't what they want to be portrayed as and they are not the only faction that does this. Now. This is not to say factions can't have representatives, as there is at least one faction that has a NPC Leader and these steps are needed. But often in these cases with such factions that have leaders and not Leaders taking on In Character decisions for entire governments, sometimes there is backlash and the people who put time and effort into writing characters that should be doing these threads is brought to nothing. It creates a sense of powerlessness for these characters. As if...they don't actually matter [Though great writers and great sports will use this to their advantage while writing 
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Now what is the difference from a Leader and a leader? A Leader, in my mind at least, is the person who should be, but as is the case on this board, usually not, the In Character leader of said faction. That would be like the Mand'alor or the Lord/Lady Protector in the Mandalorian and Omega Protectorate factions respectively. A leader, is a character, who while holding some sway in each faction and holds a decent amount of IC power, is the ACTUAL leader of the faction, OOC and IC, for whatever reasons, despite said faction having a position in their government that should be holding true power. These leaders go around making IC dealings with other Leaders and leaders. For example, and I'm not bashing y'all for this. A meeting between the Sith Empire (Manda bless your soul) and the Republic. Realistically, an ideal meeting would be with the Leader of the Sith, the Emperor and the Chancellor/Vice Chancellor and a few Jedi Masters for protection. However, what actually happens is the Grandmaster of the Jedi order, a religious body, and sometimes soldier farm of the Republic. Leader and leader contact. While I understand that most of that faction's writers are Jedi, what it LOOKS like, at least in the mind of Gilamar Skirata is that the Jedi have usurped the Republic's government and are one step away from staging a coup. Hence his distrust of the Jedi with them leading the charge on all these "Land grabbing" actions that have brought them to his doorstep.
]This is just my opinion. I want to hear yours.
