It'd be a pretty big deal. vCA would lose access to the best hacker in the game overnight. That and Daturazi are both huge.
There is the rule of cool and the rule of impossible, Japan surviving been out of Yu Jing is possible, especially if it is backed by PanO, not that their biggest territories and population still remain under Yu Jing. As for PanO, have they been in any conflict to win it? biggest loss is the fall of Strelsau, and the victories in Durgama, they are the biggest punching bag and can absorb hits lesser powers would fold over and die of.
I hear you and agree. Dartok are near broken good. And Datarazi are basically the best warband in the game too. So yes. Those two would hurt. But there are a total of 6 Morat profiles in vCA. (Plus hungries if you count them) And those two are probably the only real auto includes. And CA isn’t short on good hackers either. They were good in the hacking game way before Dartoks existed. But that wasn’t my point in what I said earlier. It wasn’t about whether or not you’d feel the loss of those few remaining units. It’s that CA has already lost most of the Morat profiles. So Morats going rogue (which I personally don’t think would happen for many of the previous statements from others on this topic.) would not be on the same level as a faction losing roughly 1/3 of its playable units. That’s all.
To be fair Spoiler: Downfall In the book Downfall, PanO blatantly invaded Yujing land on Paradiso and stole an entire alien ruin. Then got all usable data and destroyed the ruins with no real consequence. I call that an unambiguous win.
The CA has pervasive surveillance and massive resources, constrained by the limits of the wormhole networks. This is pretty much exactly Japan's situation at the start of Uprising, though to a greater extent. I'm certain the Shasvastii could secede without being wiped out if they believed it prudent, though the Morats would require a bit more luck given they aren't a race of paranoid survivalists. I unfortunately have not actually read Downfall, though that would mark the first time I can recall PanO winning even a minor operation outright. I honestly think Ariadna might be the best-written faction so far, in terms of its victories, defeats and political positions. They really sell the underdog attitude very well, losing a lot of fights but making their victories feel well-earned. Maybe it's because I can't really get the graphic novels (being Australian and not trusting international shipping will do that to you), but PanO and Yu Jing have started to feel like Infinity's Dick Dastardly to me- such a big threat on paper, never win anything, twirl mustache.
For what it's worth, Ariadna's a bit easier to write in the context of the setting because they're presently completely irrelevant to it. It's easy to not rock the boat when nothing you do matters.
You are thinking locally, CA species and CA are not constrained on the human sphere and each and every action they take affects not only whatever local forces they have, but also their entire species, its not something anybody would take lightly and to be frank any secessionist movement would be brutally suppressed and eliminated first and foremost by their own before EI needs to even start thinking about taking some action. You can actually see it in betrayal were you have in effect a Shasvastii versus Shasvastii action. As for the latter, while Yu Jing are a massive superpower, PanO is unimaginably vast, if it is not written as a complacent giant that is slowly and lethargically reacting there is a high chance that "human Sphere" is just PanO.
On the French forum, someone pointed out this information from Bostria in the interview regarding composition: "...the presence of Ikadrons AND Imetron in the Next Wave sector, which are currently the two best troops in regular service and provide a solid base of regular orders to feed the VIPs of the CA."
