Well, you ofc, the very moment you created them, you also gave them sovereignty independent from you.Ĥ. It balance against sitting on your own with back up ships that cost no maintenance in peace time and will only cost you in war time (an exploited by created mercenary but only hire it when you are in war) I guess so you have to actually hire them and thus paying even in peace too to prevent other hiring them to wardec you.Ģ. I think that is what Squid Space Machiavelli would say.Ĭlick to expand.1. Perhaps keeping a 'national' fleet that is able to defeat your 'own' mercs should be considered a wise and prudent policy if you use them in Stellaris. The mercenaries might like you a bit more because you made them a company, but they are mercenaries first, citizens second. That Stellaris is able, in your case, to demonstrate Machivelli's lesson so naturally is impressive. Those citizens, loyal to their own nation/country, would fight to defend it first, not for monetary gain. This is why ol Nicollo consistently advises the Prince to institute what we would understand to be a national,citizen army. Mercenaries,by their mercenary nature, are unfit as a tool of statecraft(so he advises the titular Prince) because their loyalty is measured in how much they are paid, as opposed to a grander(nobler?) cause they are intrinsically motivated to uphold/be loyal too. Niccolo Machavelli actually discusses this in depth in 'The Prince'.
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