Zidious
Caldari
Demon Theory
Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.07.28 01:01:00 -
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 Originally by: Jesmine Kyriel
What bothers me about this cronicle is two-fold;
First, we have the notion that once a system is lost in FW, changes on planets and (perhaps) stations are enacted. This contradicts all other PF input that fails to explain in any way what different factions do once they take/lose systems. All Federation space is lost; are all those planets and colonies now in the Caldari's hands, are they on the planets? Most RP'ers seem to agree that the war is only in space and nothing is done planetside. I'd believe we would hear what has happened in Intaki (one of the Federations main bloodlines even!) to the planets there, if the Caldari State landed troops on one of the main ethnic group's homeworlds...
I would like to know, what to expect if I join FW for any faction and fail in defending any system - what can I, from an IC viewpoint, claim to have failed to prevent? If the Amarr take Minmatar worlds, are the population dragged off in chains? Do the Minmatar liberate slaves and/or kill their 'oppressors'? What do the Caldari/Gallente do with the different planets they take/lose?
Secondly, it seems to me a trend is made here, that involves a couple of things.
Glorifying the State and Republic as the 'good guys' that allways do things right and properly, and the Empire and Federation as the 'evil ones' that simply don't know how to behave, or so it seems. I mean, the example here was that caldari forces landed and took control, they even 'handled' the few that resisted, if they were carrying weapons or not. I don't know why you would go to such a lenght to be gentle with people trying to kill you, that the worst that happends to loud rebels is being thrown into a lake to cool off. That just smells of 'the Caldari are so nice' meant to paint them in their 'good guys' picture. Later the protagonist even claims that if 'they' (the Gallente Federation) had taken land they would come in guns blazing. Yeah, of course they would, I mean, the Federation is the OBVIOUS bad guys here, right? Far more likely is that either woyld, in taking planets, land to assume control, neutralize (kill) any major opposition, depose of the local government and instate their own.
I started playing this game after quite some time reading PF material etc, and I liked the supposed 'grey' universe where everyone has their good and bad sides, no-one is perfect, and the universe can be cold and cruel. This pampering of spesific nations over others to announce good-guys and bad-guys is just weak.
BTW, as noted before there is a typo in the cronicle, a rather obvious one too. Also, there is no link to this forum from the cronicle either. Not that i care to much, I did not like tihs one much.
Correct me if im wrong, but arent the caldari ment to be cold and efficient while the galente are more liberal and relaxed ?
I think the point of the story was to show us how the caldari manipulate the gallente into doubting themselves by giving them bribes in terms of hope they did not have when the gallente ruled the planet and not a story about who's the good guys or bad guys.
It probably would have caused more problems just to kill a bunch of people and then kill the rest later on than the caldari could bother with, hence their approach of defusing the situation the way they did.
This was just one poorly run colony and not an example of gallente world wide, just an excllent example of the caldari beeing cold and methodical and beeing able to manipulate a situation to their benifit.
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