Golden Girl

It doesn't seem to be working

It looks like the rocks outside Mother Mayhem's lair in First Ward.

That's because the devs use all types of content to tell their stories - the Praetorian storyline is the most obvious example, as it's the largest storyline in the game so far - but the Coming Storm storyline already uses several types of content, and will spread it over a wider selection as it progesses.

Quite easily

If you read the plaques around his city, you'll learn that Tyrant is a brilliant strategist and thinker, so it's quite possible that he simply assembled an army to conquer the multiverse just in case he might actually need to do it one day.

Fascists like Reichsman and Tyrant are all about conquest - eventually, crushing thier own worlds isn't enough - they need to move onto others.

So the mass-murder, torture, brain-washing, drugged water supply, thought police, lack of democracy, personality cult, forced membership of the Powers Division, faked history taught in schools and general fascist police state vibe of the loyalists dictatorship doesn't stink?

Primal Earth also investigated Axis Earth before Reichsman was aware of Primal Earth - Nazi Coles are always going to be a security risk, so it's the sensible thing to do to keep an eye on what they're up to.

They need to be free to choose freedom

The Trials are the logical conclusion of the storyline started in GR - a crazed fascist and his stiff armed thugs will always get a massive beatdown in a comicbook setting

He tells you more after you complete each Trial - there's new text for each one.

The Armiral Sutter, Apex and Tin Mage TFs suggest that we're not really being pre-emptive in the Trials

The Keyes Trial gives us control of the sonic fences before the loyalists can use them as a weapon against the people, just like they did in First Ward - it's one of the main reasons for the Trial, along with the need to stop another crazed loyalist sending the reactors into meltdown.

All the problems loyalists face come from their own actions, and the Trials are karma on an epic scale as we sweep through their evil empire, smashing the dictatorship at every turn, and giving the Praetorians their freedom again.
The total rout and humilaition of the loyalists is one of the heroic highlights of the whole game - instead of the necessary game mechanic of the stalemate with the Rogue Isles, we actually get to permanently defeat a cosmic scale villain along with his henchpeople and his armies, and liberate an entire world - it's kinda hard to top that.

While the womenfolk are out protecting the city.

If it was less than a 24 hour gap, you should probably be ok.

That's still weeping

Using a staff?

They found a compromise - any 4-legged rigs will hold the staff in their mouth.

The Praetorian storyline appears to support the good vs evil battle

Don't

There's only one right side, and anyone who wants to do the right thing has to be on it

There's a spoiler warning in the thread title

They should have just waited for Tyrant to do it for them:

He should be drawing with the crayon in his mouth - it's more creative and it looks cooler.