Golden Girl

More Incarnate stuff

Fixed, for in-game reality

They lack the spandex to look like normal heores

Well, I work out regularly - but I'm not a freak about it

Well, not everyone - as that'd make undercover work kinda hard

Well, it isn't - for the stormtrooper types

Yes, you're only obeying orders, aren't you?

See above

Maybe you could try resisting the dictatorship instead of supporting it - I'm sure there must be a few times in your career where you get a chance to do that

Then you have no conscience - which is just the way Tyrant likes his stormtroopers to be

It's not really plausible that any member pof the Powers Division could not know about what happens to the people they arrest

If you're working for the ditatorship, then yes, you are - that's goes with the job.
The Powers Division and the PPD are legally empowered to kill people on the spot - and don't froget that she'd be executed anyway as a member of the Resistance - arresting her means you'd be guilty of her death just as much as if you pul, the trigger yourself - as a loyalist, every person you arrest is going to be imprisoned, tortured, and very lilkely executed - that's the way the system you're working for operates, and if you think that's unjust, then being a loyalist just isn't for you
The Cleo vs Washington mission is just showing you the end part of the process that you don't usually witness, as her connections to a Praetor make arresting her and handing her over to your colleagues to be tortured and executed impossible, so to uphold the law you have to do the executing part of the process yourself, instead of passing it onto someone else as would normally be the case.

I think it might mean they'll be adding some more Vigilante and Rogue ones that cover a wider area of actions, as those two alignments have had some complaints about the things the missions ask them to do.

That depends - will you be 50 before or after I19 comes out this fall?

I think you, like a few others, are getting Praetoria mixed up with the Going Rogue Alignment System - the whole "walk the line" thing in the advertising isn't about Praetoria - it's about shifting between Heroes and Villains, and being a Vigilante or a Rogue.

The problem is that the writers have tried to make Praetoria morally gray, but they haven't changed the basic vision for Praetoria enough to let that happen - Praetoria was planned from the start to be a good vs evil fight, with the heroic Resistance fighting the evil dictatorship - but when they tried to add more gray to it, they didn't change the fundamental parts of the setting enough.
They still kept the dictatorship as a comic book style over-the-top evil place, and tried to add gray by making some of the Resistance evil anarchists - but that doesn't really add enough gray to make the setting morally uncertain.
When they decided to add more gray to the original vision of Praetoria, they should have dialed back the evil being done by the dictatorship, rather than trying to ramp up the evil being done by the Resistance to match it, which it never can, as the state is all-powerful and its evil action can affect the entire world, where the evil the Resistance do are pretty much isolated acts, as they simply don't have the power and reach that the state does.

They kept the dictatorship with it's slavery, disapperances, mass-murder, torture, brainwashing, propaganda and general repression, and then added some hospital-bombing, cop-gassing and Ghoul-feeding antics for the Resistance to try and make the setting seem grayer than the original vision for Praetoria, when to do that they'd have to dial back the evil of the dictatorship, not keep it as the fascist nightmare and crime against humanity that it's still shown to be.
For example, if they dropped the idea of the enslaved Seers, and with it the idea of reading the thoughts of the people, and also ditched the drugged water and Enriche, so that the citizens would be genuinely happy with Tyrant, and also got rid of the BAF with people being dragged away to be torutred there for thinking bad thoughts, then that would have added way more gray to the setting - Tyrant would stil be a bad person, but he'd seem more reasonable - he'd still think freedom was dangerous, but he wouldn't be the monster doing the kinds of things he's doing in the current setting to try and crush freedom.

Well, like I said above, it was never designed to be a morally gray conflict - which is why the mission to exit Praetoria can seem rather weird, going by the setting you've just played through.

Because Washington is following the law and being loyal to Tyrant and his laws - Cleo is an enemy of the state, and anyone truly loyal to the state will see to it that she feels the full force of those laws.
If you turn against Washington, you're turning against Tyrant and his laws too.

Slavery can never be justified

Well, Katie Douglas and Kang's daughter are innocent - along with others

Check the 2nd post in this thread