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An Ideological War of Mercy
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New to the game but I wanted to share this experience.

TL;DR at the bottom.

I'm playing as the United Nations of Earth and not on ironman mode (since again, I'm pretty new) and I've been trying to do the federation/ diplomatic thing. For RP purposes, all species and ideas are welcome in the federation and all should be given a chance to sit at the table, and if you don't want a seat at our table, we are not opposed to forcing you to sit...

Anyway, there are two empires that have been fighting since we made contact, the Galactic Norani Commonwealth (green in the pic) and the Estwani Citizen Republic (white). As you can see the Estwani have been beaten back, to one small system. Their research irreversibly crippled and their population starving. The Norani have been bullied the Estwani into near extinction and the federation could not sit idly by and watch this massacre. So, as one does when one can only use the impose ideology casus belli, a large amount of influence was spent to have a shared border and allow a war of ideology to be declared.

It was the hope of the United Nations of Earth to persuade the Estwani to abandon their fanatic militarist and spiritualist ways through war (the irony is not lost on me) and then to allow them into the federation, protecting the people and not allowing them to fade into the annals of history like so many before. Just another anomaly on some cold lifeless planet.

The war was easily won and the Estwani adopted new governing ethics, but I now face a dilemma and any advice is appreciated.

If I offer the Estwani a status quo end to the war, The Norani approve of their new neighbors and offer to become protectors. If I offer an impose idology end to the war, the old Estwani empire survives with new governing ethics and the Norani still have animosity and claims casus belli and both nations feel the same about each other. So my problem is an RP one. In either end to the war the Estwani cannot be offered membership into the federation because federation voting AI reasons.

So either the old Estwani empire dies and the Norani become their protectors, something that seems counter to the RP reasons for starting the war, or the original Estwani empire survives and the Norani still hate them, but I can't bring them into the federation for protection and I can't become their protectors either. But I want to keep the old Estwani empire to rub it into to the Norani's faces, that the federation can and will bring everyone to the table.

What do you all recommend I do?

TL;DR - I started a war of ideology to bring a bullied nation into a federation to protect the species but either their ethics change and they can't be brought in, or their ethics change and a new empire is formed and their oppressors suddenly like them which I do not like for RP reasons. Still might be the route I have to go for any hope of protecting them but any recommendations welcome.

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