Is your planet far from the Federation's base camp? We had similar problems with the outlying provinces away from Edo, the capital of my country. It was difficult to get them to understand and accept Edo's rule.

That's part of what I was fighting against - ronin from the outlying provinces like Satsuma and Tosa were causing problems after the Westerners came.

[He laughed a bit, reaching up to smooth a fallen piece of hair behind his ear. He dropped his head as he did so, setting his cup down in the wooden bucket still floating atop the water.]

I guess we would have been on opposite sides of the war, had we been in the same one.