The Janastian Warhawks: The Third Pole and "If You Wish for Peace, Prepare for War" (Full Text)

Type: Narrative — Faction Confirmation, Full Detail (Full Text) Status: Canon (confirmed by creator) — full text preserved per archival standard

See "You Believe You Have Defanged a Lion" for the preceding material — this establishes the Janastian Warhawks as a distinct third position in the Viachon integration debate, agreeing more with Jonas than with official MACOFS optimism.

Confirmed Founding and Status

The Janastian Warhawks were founded by Jonas in 1968 as an underground (and illegal, at the time) military organization tasked with defending Janast from its militarily inclined neighbor. They are members of both the MACOFS Treaty (joined first) and the Trade Alliance (joined second). They were full participants in World War 3, and spent the entire 1990s crossing the planet — alongside the Empire of Xanydeo and Xanthus's Second Brigade — dealing with, defeating, and dismantling bandits, warlords, gangs, private military companies, and slavers.

Their Position on Viachon Integration

✅ Confirmed: on the question of Viachon's admission to the Trade Alliance and Treaty, the Warhawks take a "wait and see" position — more inclined to lean toward Jonas's skeptical assessment than MACOFS's official optimism, but genuinely hoping both he and they are wrong.

Official Languages and the Roman Motto

✅ Confirmed: the Warhawks' official state languages are English 2 (shared with Kila Vas and Jonesboro) and Latin. The Warhawks believe in the ancient Roman saying — "If you wish for peace, prepare for war" (Si vis pacem, para bellum) — notably, very few others on Maf have ever heard of Rome or the Roman Empire at all, making this a genuinely rare cultural inheritance unique to the Warhawks.

Practical application: the Warhawks will not let their guard slip for any state or any member of the Trade Alliance or the MACOFS Treaty — including, implicitly, the Viachon Empire itself, despite its formal membership in both organizations.

Significance: The Third Pole

This establishes the Warhawks as occupying a position no other actor in the setting can honestly claim — historically tested, militarily proven across both a world war and a decade of continent-spanning counter-insurgency work, institutionally distinct from MACOFS's central optimism, and directly aligned with (though independent of) Jonas's own dissenting judgment on Viachon. Where MACOFS's official position believes trade and institutional density will pacify the Viachon over generations, the Warhawks' doctrine assumes the opposite default: peace is preserved through visible, maintained readiness, not through economic entanglement or cultural exchange.

Appearances

• Creator-provided detail (ChatGPT export, "Game inquiry" — see RAW SOURCE, conversations-001.json #91)