Praetorian Groups Other Than Loyalists & Resistance

Since everyone seems to be going Group Happy with all the Going Rogue possibilities I thought I’d throw in a few other Organizations from which you can choose.

The Praetorian Boy Scouts: Merit Badges are just as important in this group as they are in our world’s version. However the Merit Badges themselves are a weeeee bit different. Bomb Construction merit badge, the Hand to Hand Combat Specialist merit badge and Torture and Interrogation Techniques merit badges are just a few examples. The Boy Scouts in Praetoria are definitely Loyalist based. So be a good little drone and sign your kids up today!

Praetorian Masons: The fez hats are the same but the little cars are a little on the different side… as in side-mounted machine guns and ignitable oil slicks in case of pursuit. Those suckers do about 100 mph on the open highway too. In our world the appearance of a motorcycle gang is cause for alarm in most communities. In Praetoria you see two dozen old men driving miniature cars in figure eight patterns and you run for the hills.

Praetorian 4H Club: You’d think farmers in any world would be too danged busy to be able to stir up too much trouble. Not so! The Praetorian farmers are firmly on the side of the resistance, mostly because of Tyrant’s lack of subsidies and socialization of the food system. Apparently everyone in Utopia is never supposed to go hungry! Can you believe it? FREE food?! How is an honest farmer supposed to make a living when he has to GIVE his food away?! So, the Praetorian 4H Club is a wide-spread terrorism organization. They plan the bombings of food distribution centers, kidnap and extortion of high level key-positioned bureaucracy cabinet members as well as livestock and produce county fair competitions.

Praetorian Brownies: The arch-enemies of the Boy Scouts these little munchkins of mayhem are feared throughout the realm. They all look like sweet, innocent little girls but the hand grenades and bayonets (which they call their “boyonets”) hanging from their merit badge sashes aren’t for show. Despite being so fiercely against the Boy Scouts the Brownies are NOT, in fact, in league with the Resistance… they just think boys are icky. An interesting bit of slang terminology: when Praetorian Boy Scouts launch an assault against the girls they refer to it as “Baking Brownies.”

Praetorian Rotary Club: Actually, the resemblance of this organization to the one in Primal Earth is in name only. In Praetoria the Rotary Club isn’t really a cohesive collective so much as a group of individuals with a common bond. This is the name given to all Resistance members captured and currently receiving “treatment” in Tyrant’s torture chambers. They are named the Rotary Club in honor of a particularly gruesome apparatus called The Rotor-Rooter. Trust me, you don’t want to know.

Praetorian Lions’ Club: In response to the Rotary Club, the Resistance came up with their own version to assign to the Loyalist captives. As a happy little side-effect the creation of the Lion’s Club also gave the Resistance a means by which to feed their pets.

Praetorian Democratic and Republican Parties: Actually, Tyrant wiped these organizations off the face of the planet in his rise to power so no such parties exist in the Praetorian world. Hmmm…. Maybe it IS Utopia after all…

Praetorian Book Club: There are actually two versions of the Praetorian Book Club. In the Resistance Book Club people will read the assigned book and gather to discuss the ideas, plot, characters and possible symbolism in a quiet and supportive environment. In the Loyalist Book Club the members will raid homes, libraries and warehouses and hold the inhabitants at gun point while they search for banned materials. At the end of a successful hunt they will cast the books into a huge bonfire, toast marshmallows and sing heart-felt choruses of Kumbaya.

Praetorian Chess Club: On the surface this club is identical to ones you may find here in Primal Earth. The only real difference is that the winner of high-level tournaments inevitably disappears as the Loyalists “recruit” them into their Advanced Strategy and Combat Tactics Division.

I kinda of want to join the Praetorian 4H Club now