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How will Primal and Praetoia Meet Up?

Aett_Thorn

By Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2009-10-27 24:16 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
At Hero Con, it was stated explicitly that Recluse and Tyrant would hate each other, if they ever met. Tyrant would hate Recluse because, well, Recluse is a villain and Tyrant thinks that he is the savior of his world. Recluse would hate Tyrant because, well...

Recluse: "ANOTHER Marcus Cole... sonuva... wait... and that one actually killed 'me'!?!?!!?"

(That's almost exactly how the devs explained it. I lol'd.)
Hrm. I could understand Emperor Cole's perspective on this, but Recluse not playing the two sides against each other, and instead using guttural hatred as a motivation, seems low-brow. There again, Recluse has always erred in the side of "brutal evil," as opposed to "cunning evil." He's a good dictator, but he leaves all the hard thinking to others like Aeon and Ghost Widow. Which is a shame - playing two Coles against each other plays right into his hands.

 

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I would guess that Praetoria's critical failure rate with native supers--90% of them disappear "overseas"--must be leaving them short on meta-power. If so, it's not wonder the DE have been able to run amok, and there's no telling what kind of imbalance that's introducing between them and the other nations on Praet-Earth. Since Tyrant has reason to know of the huge number of supers zipping around Paragon, he may have some notion of trying to "recruit" some of them. He may also have some "Justice Lords"-esque notion of conquering Prime for its own good, since we haven't managed to crush our villains for ourselves.

Regardless of his reasons, his current approach isn't working. Prime and Praetoria have been raiding back and forth for years now, but both sides have been concentrating heavily on the upper-echelon supers. As a result, neither side has been able to hold onto captives--they've been too powerful/clever/plot-armored to keep contained. He's going to expand his Prime operations by having Loyalists infiltrating or invading Prime; that's why they leave Praetoria for either Paragon City or the Rogue Isles at 20. The Resistance, of course, would want to send agents and advisors through to counter the Loyalists.

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I'm betting that it'll be the conflict between the Hellions and Skulls that does it.

What? Nobody would see that one coming.
One of my scrappers is from a dimension where the Hellions unleashed a demonic blight on the world and took over (mostly by accident).

The Way of the Corruptor (Arc ID 49834): Hey villains! Do something for yourself for a change--like twisting the elements to your will. All that's standing in your way are a few secret societies...and Champions of the four elements.