As to the actual title question, "Any fight to Pacifist Rebel?", recall that the actual pacifist empire modifier is:
- +1 Maximum embassies
- -25% Rivalry influence gain
- -10% Army damage
i.e. the
fleet is no less effective whatsoever. Pacifism is
only less effective at planet conquest, and even then it's only a 10% malus. All this wailing and gnashing of teeth about how all pacifist ethos empires are inherantly massively underpowered and doomed to be crushed in the early game is, I think, rather overblown.
As for pacifist armed revolt being counterintuitive, I echo the sentiments expressed above that pacifists aren't necessarily of the Jain / Gandhi / Quaker variety of total nonviolence. To wit: I could argue that the American Revolution was a pacifist revolt, because it was sparked by the taxes levied under the Stamp Act of 1765, and the Stamp Act of 1765 was instituted to raise funds to pay for the armies necessary to defend the American colonies. So these were essentially people rebelling against having (to pay for) an army, which sounds a lot like a pacifist revolt to me. And yet it fielded the Continental Army, so it's a situation rife with irony.
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