Golden Girl

You've not actually explored Praetoira yet, have you?

That explains it then

I find insane mass-murdering god-emperors with messiah compexes a very dark shade of gray - the kind of gray that's so dark it's black

So why are you worshipping Tyrant?

Well, something like a nemesis/rogues gallery system - or the zone events that are the main bit of the Incarnate system content.

When the water supply is drugged, it's very hard to tell who's really happy

Well spotted

When you're trying to change the mind of an insane god-emperor who believes his nightmare fascist dictatorship is heaven on earth, and can survive a one-on-one duel with the Hamidon and a direct hit from a nuke, the resolving of the problem will involve violence

Not to the people being oppressed by them

Soviet, Communist, Nazi, Loyalist - it doesn't really matter what the political framework of the dictatorship is - they're all evil, and for the people being oppressed and murdered because they don't fit into whatever insane system the dictatorship they're trapped in happens to be trying to impose on them, it doens't really make any difference.

Or people like Cleo, who help you stop hospital bombings

You might be surprised

If you were loyal to the people of Praetoria, you wouldn't be working for the system that is oppressing them

Yeah - although there are a lot of Nazi aspects to the loyalists, the propaganda posters and personality cult stuff seems more Communist in their art style - which is a good move, so that they don't make the dictatorship seem too much like any single RL one, and make it a blend of RL ones instead, with some sc-fi evil like thought police thown in too.

Well, I think loyalists only watch TPN for all their information needs

You can meet them in the retconned MJ and Tina arcs.

25 years is a very long time for a state of emergency to last

And the normal people in Paretoria who are fighting the fascist dictatorship - if everyone accpeted the evil of the government, there wouldn't be any resistance to that evil

So if Rome, Italy was under attack on Primal Earth, Statesman would just stand by and watch?

The text of the "Knows the Turth" badge is quite interesting

Well, that fits with who the good side are

Just shout "All Hail Emperor Cole" - it'll make everything easier

If he was a good person, he wouldn't be serving a fascist dictatorship - and with the title of "Interrogator", and the loyalists frequent use of torture on people, I'm not so sure he's "done no wrong whatsoever"

That's correct - anyone working for Tyrant's evil system is evil as well - no one with normal morality can support someone like Tyrant and be a good person.

I think some of that's the work of Dr. Aeon - before he became a dev, he wrote some great MA arcs that were very linked up - "The Legacy of Joe, the Longbow Eagle" is the first one, if you want to try them.

Tyrant had an agenda from quite early on in his career as a "hero"

It isn't gray, because they've made the government way too evil to allow for any grayness - like Tyrant and his fascist dictatorship is a checklist of government evil - mass murder, "disappearances", torture, thought police, slavery, drugged citizens, "behavioral adjustment" for anyone who opposes the governemnt, repression of the media and education, police brutality and general oppression - there's just nothing gray there, it's all evil, from the lowest PPD thug to the insane god-emperor in his tower.

And although it's one of the lesser crimes when compared to the other crimes against humanity being carried out by Tyrant and his thugs on a daily basis, the drugging of the water is actually one of the biggest problems in trying to make Praetoria seem gray - it takes away the idea that large sections of the population might actually like Tyrant and his dictatorship of their own accord, and not because they were being pacified by a drugged water supply.