Primal

While true by and large, I feel the need to justify being occasionally dead with a full tray. Sometimes, not only does everything go sideways, it goes there in the space of a blink. Happened to me last night, the Brute went in, my Dominator self followed, and every enemy in the spawn decided I was by far the more dangerous target. In the red in one hit, dead 1/8th of a second later.

Naturally, assuming the above will happen, and therefore popping things pre-emptively, ensures nothing ever happens to you at all. Then the game picks that time to give you nothing for your trouble, so now you're out.

Maybe I'm behind on my sacrifices to RNG. Or it's sheep kind of god and I've been providing goats.

This could be my post too. I have two alien characters, friendly rivals with a nice backstory and everything, who I rolled as Kheldians because it just seemed to fit so well. Too bad I just cannot stand playing Kheldians, they feel so middle-ground at everything and good at nothing. I hear tell at high levels they really bloom, but the very idea of climbing that mountain just makes me want to play something else. And the names are totally alien, heh, so it's not like I'm squatting on anything somebody else would want. So they sit.

Before GR hit, a Tanker character would also fit well, but I can reroll her as a good-aligned Brute with no issue now. I utterly suck at tanking.

Nothing strengthens your case quite like slinging insults, amirite?

The current naming system is fine. Every workaround ever posited in topics like this has only succeeded in being spectacularly clunky and ugly.

I still say the Brute anthem would be Superbeast by Rob Zombie.

I'll answer in general better after work, gotta think on it.

Both sides are extremists. They both have the attitude of "You're either with us or against us." Known sympathizers on both sides are mistrusted, and certainly wouldn't be given any important missions, or really associated with at all. It's Facism. I agree that this hard-line approach doesn't work well in all situations, even the ones presented by the game, nor is it accomodating to a lot of character concepts, but that is the path they've chosen.

It doesn't bother me, I either make characters with moralities that fit or that have no strong morality at all. You can also take the "I did what I had to do, but I'm troubled by it" path. Or ignore it all of course and just do whatever because it's xp, heh. Personally I made several characters specifically with Praetoria in mind, and for the ones with a morality that doesn't fit in Praetoria, I roll them on the other sides.

More to the point regarding this particular mission, I'm glad it's done like it is. A compromising solution would weaken the impact. Ye gods I hate how many missions posit knocking someone out or scaring them as a permanent solution to whatever problem they've caused. It's too easy a handwave.