Doc_Reverend

That's my speculation as well. They've got more in common with the Talons, perhaps being their opposite number. Where the Talons are about Vengeance, the Angels are about Justice. Rightousness instead of Revenge.

Or who knows?

I am wary of them bringing angelic imagery into the game, especially since that tends to mean we have to fight them. And while I am well aware that angelic imagery is extremely old, and has similarities to imagery in other ancient Middle Eastern mythologies... in the back of my head there's a little voice going "We're going to have to fight these guys some day, aren't we?"

I find it rather distasteful, not to mention bad storytelling, if we're forced to list the Celestial Host and God as just another AV. I don't think we should go anywhere near stuff like Heaven, the angels, God, or saying "Oh well, here's the reality behind MAJOR REAL WORLD RELIGION WITH BILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS."

It's bad storytelling because you can't go up from there. Kind of hard to top beating up the infinite armies of Heaven and the souls of everyone there as you storm the Pearly Gates for farming iXP.

It's also just a very bad idea. People get worked up over religion. Taking a stance one way or another on a religious thing in the game? Like, oh, the existence of God, the nature of God or His messengers, etc? That's going to be ugly.

Now these angels being the wardens of the Eternal Prison, or something like that, who use angelic imagery? Fine. "Are you angels?" "We've been called a lot of things. We'll let you make up your own mind."

That or just say that they use the angelic form because that was the closest cultural analog appearance they could find. Like the Vorlons in Babylon 5.

Technically, they've been dead for nearly two thousand years. Their revelation as "dead" should come as no surprise at all. Cimerora is a lost civilization. Presumably, even before the details of their death were revealed, it is a natural assumption that Imperious and Romulus died at some point in the far distant past. After all, so has everyone else (yes, shocker, everyone and everything that ever existed will die eventually).

Their deaths occur in the future, relative to the position of time that players are active in Cimerora. The Sister Solaris arc takes place after the ITF, and Imperious and Romulus die somewhere after the Sister Solaris. I felt it was implied that Cimerora was already falling even as they died, with their deaths being an attempt - perhaps a misguided one - by Sister Airilia to stave off destruction.

In other words... they die in the future. Just their future is our past.

Time travel can be confusing, can't it?

The technology is already being explored for that. For example, it's been used to develop a lightweight powered exoskeleton for a crippled little girl.

Actually, it's mentioned several times in the Praetorian arcs that Praetoria City is not the only bastion of humanity. There are other enclaves and areas free of the Hamidon's power. Praetoria is simply the most advanced, powerful, and most populus.

Cole himself does not hold absolute dominion, and must still deal with other leaders. This is mentioned in the Praetorian arcs and badges as well.

Yin Corporation itself is repeatedly referred to as a multi-national corporation. For it to be multi, there must be other powers on Praetorian Earth.

Resistance with bits of what looks like Carnival of Light, Celestial, and a cape I don't recognize with blue tights underlayer. It's just very... busy, and isn't really a coherent look so much as a bunch of things slapped on. They don't really mesh well.

Actually, he's pretty evil. He wiped out a good chunk of the survivors in the American Midwest and Rocky Mountains, including several surviving Army units when he was able to get his hands on heavy weapons, and was running more or less a ****** Horde style operation. Guy's a mass murderer who's responsible for thousands of deaths and a lot of people not surviving the war.

This comes up I think in the Responsibility arcs where you're up against the Destroyers. The guy's an animal.

But I could see him ending up redside and working for Recluse or in the Rogue Isles. That'd fit him. Him working blueside... can't buy that so much.

Really not a fan of Praetorian Aurora Borealis's costume. It's kind of all over the place.

Wasn't discussing SSA1 in this case though. I was talking about Dark Astoria, Night Ward, SSA2, Dean MacArthur, and some others that some here seem to also hate. Which I find... rather peculiar.

SSA1 has... issues, I'll agree to that, and I'm a fairly positive person. I thought SSAs 1, 2 and 7 were decent enough. Kinda liked 4. 5 was okay. 6 was... yeah, that one was weak.

So far, didn't see that. The praise or lack there of seemed in-character for the contact. A former Freedom Phalanxer who sees her former group on black days and still struggling to figure out how to handle itself after some heavy blows. People bicker. They have trouble with things. Positron is not, and has not, ever been portrayed as much of a natural leader. He's a scientist, and by nature prefers to stay behind and play with the tech.

Acting "retarded"? They got blindsided. And being able to hurt Numina. Ever go and think "Wait, no, that's not lampshading. That's a good question."

But people see what they want to see here.

So far, haven't felt that. Asking for help when times are tough doesn't make you a chump. Not winning every single fight doesn't make you a chump. Being less powerful than someone doesn't make you a chump. Sometimes superheroes need help.

So it turns Bonfire into Earthquake.

Huh. I'm finding it doesn't work with Lightning Field at the moment though. Seriously, it's firing according to my combat logs, but nothing falls down.

Hey, it's the 21st Century.

Already done so. Hoping it's just something easily fixed.