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Originally Posted by houkoholic

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The original constitution held in Laplace's Box was a clause that gives Spacenoids a right to vote in representatives to participate in the Federation's political system and represent themselves, not give them the right to independence and exists as separate entities from the Federation, so in essences given the original constitution they could operate more as states. The ending of Unicorn was left obscure as to what exactly happened after disclose of the content of the box, but it's safe to say that instead of a massive radical independence movement as wanted by the Neo-Zeon's/Sleeves, things certainly didn't went that far/revolutionary/bloody, or things could even remained more or less the same. The thing is no matter how good of a governing system you put in, there would always be someone who aren't going to be happy. You can't look at a couple of fringe cases like Hathaway and the Ronah family (FWIW the scale of the conflict in F91 was tiny) and say that they represent the masses of the Spacenoids. For all that Unicorn/Hathway's Flash/F91 told us is that what happened in Unicorn didn't lead to a massive, abrupt independence movement on the part of the colonies even given the truth was revealed. And like someone point out above, it wasn't until Victory that the landscape seems to have changed drastically and that is a good half a century/60 years after Unicorn. So there is no contradiction, the majority of the people really didn't seem to care after what happened in Unicorn, or rather the majority wanted peaceful resolution rather than conflict and/or true independence.

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I'm not disagreeing with you on that score, in fact I rather hope for the best and that a peaceful resolution was indeed found to right what was and has been a legitimate grievance that fueled the confrontations to come in the One Year War and beyond. And I'm not saying Independence was necessarily the best solution either, but a degree of representation and autonomy seems like a fair enough concession to make in order to alleviate some of the motivations on the Zeon/spacenoid side. Even if we aren't able to put a stop to all bloodshed at the very least we can close the book on this tragic chapter in history, going as far back in its roots as the beginnings of the Universal Century and its original promise. Even if some like Syam Vist initially believed correctly that it was a lie, human perseverance could and would turn it into truth in the end.