Thread of Awesome: THIS! IS!! QUOTEFILE!!!

[drakensis]

He believes it’s absolutely imperative that the Star League maintain massive, staggeringly expensive, technologically dominating, highly-trained, crack, elite, expensively-trained, technologically-crack, massively-elite armed forces ready—at the first whiff or hint, the teeniest, tiniest, most microscopic sign of tension or violence among the member states—to leap into action and IMMEDIATELY declare that it’s an internal affair and there’s nothing they can do.

Marik family squabbles? Well, the SLDF wished there was something they could have done, but really, their hands were tied. Phony bandit wars? The SLDF immediately ordered several million of the latest, most advanced, ultra-high-tech blindfolds and explained they couldn’t see anything wrong. The Davion civil war? The SLDF’s quick-reaction force was able to respond in a matter of hours and head off any signs that they might be about to do something. Capellans and Feds fighting? The SLDF was all over that like lightning—the mushroom cloud had barely touched the stratosphere over Demeter when they soothed tensions and calmed passions by reassuring everyone that in the face of such barbarity and wanton destruction there was no way, NO WAY IN HELL they were going to do anything about it.

Stefan Amaris, on Aleksander Kerensky (The Amaris Diaries)