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Now I want to make a butterfly-vampire character... With the sparkly fairy wings.

Yeah, his removal from the Maria Jenkins arc, and all the hype about how powerful he is really smells like a future Raid Boss. Him and Praetorian Hamidon. I bet we're going to fight both during the Incarnate arcs.

Would make for an awesome twist on future Praetorian missions, though. Imagine if the Praetorian arcs in PI recognised your character as an undercover Loyalist? That'd be a pretty nice detail.

Like how the Dark Watcher comments on meeting you again if you do either the Responsibility or Warden arc followed by the other. I got a "Weren't you with the Loyalists last we spoke? Interesting..." from him.

But yeah, in the interest of making it simpler, it probably is better that all characters come out of Praetoria opposing Cole. Paragon City and the Rogue Isles just aren't set up to run the whole Praetorian thing.

I agree, while Cole most certainly isn't a good guy, the Resistance is just playing into his hands acting the way they do. They're such easy propaganda bait. I mean, look at that billboard with the monstrous looking Resistance member in Imperial City. That's how the people are introduced to the Resistance, and while exaggerated, it's not completely wrong. There ARE monsters in the Resistance. So Cole does what every talented propagandist does and enhances the negatives of the opposition. You may have seen similar things happen in real life.

And frankly, when the opposition is bombing hospitals and poisoning police officers, you don't need to dig that far to find some awesome propaganda bait. It practically writes itself at this point. Add a mild mind altering drug to make people go "Eh, I suppose so..." at the propaganda, and the Resistance is already at a severe disadvantage in the PR war. And they need to win the PR war much, much more than the guns and bombs war.

A part of me wonders if Cole is keeping the Resistance around on purpose, they make such wonderful scapegoats, too. That and the "You don't want to be like THOSE guys, do you?" aspect of it. The Sonic Barriers are argued for with the Hamidon, the PPD and Seer Network are argued for with the "terrorist activity" from the Resistance.

An enemy without and an enemy within. A Tyrant ruling through fear and control couldn't ask for better.

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It is comforting to know that whatever doom mankind reaches, it is most likely to one of our own design. Mad Science. Gotta love it.

Seriously, though, I can't think of why you want a deceptive robot, except for use in combat drones. Am I missing a possible use here? Well, it'd make a mean AI for video games, too, I suppose.

It shouldn't have.

Seriously, if you're driving and a small animal suddenly rushes into the road in front of you at a distance where stopping in time is impossible, you HIT the animal rather than making an uncontrollable dodge. The guy in that PSA should have run over the dog and none of that would have happened.

Oh, and he shouldn't have gone too fast, but seriously, the dog should have died and the people survived if he'd done the "Animal on the road!" reaction right.

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While this most certainly is impressive to have robots that can decide whether lying will benefit them more than not, I can't help but think that giving robots this ability is an inherently bad idea. At least they didn't name it "Decepticon". It is pretty cool, though.

Sounds more like Base Raids to me. What happened to those, anyway?

This, for the exact same reason. Too bad my Praetorian won't train 50 at Praetor Duncan, though.

That's not entirely true now that Going Rogue is live. In some missions you kill people, explicitly stated as so, too.

There's also the "I support the Rebels, but man did the Empire get the coolest toys." faction. Seriously, they get the coolest looking spaceships, the moon sized battle station and they even have those neat walkers.

The Empire was cool. Evil, but cool.