Going Rogue story speculation: Loyalists 20-49?

Aren't we about due for another Going Rogue teaser?

I was thinking this afternoon about the Going Rogue storyline, and part of what we know about it (from Herocon) is that the native Praetorian storyline dead-ends at level 20. Both Loyalists and Resistance level from 1-19 in Praetoria, and then come to Primal Earth. (I hate that name, since there's no in-game reason to believe that Statesman's Earth is the one that all the others branched off from. I'll be deeply disappointed if it's what Tyrant and Antimatter call Statesman's dimension. But that's neither here nor there.)

The Resistance go to Paragon City at level 20, and become heroes, or at least vigilantes. We don't know yet if this happens as an opportunity arises for them, or if it's a panicky escape from an all-out assault on the Resistance by the Praetorian PD and the Praetorian Clockwork, but either way it makes sense: level from 20 to 50 in a safer environment, try to make friends and recruit heroes from this new dimension to take home to try to overthrow Tyrant. All well and good.

The Loyalists go to the Rogue Isles at level 20, and ... wait, what?

As I've long complained, basically all of the villain content dictates that you are in Project Destiny, the swarm of low-level villains who were rescued from the Zig by Arachnos based on a prophesy of Kalinda's; the details of the prophesy are classified, but everybody in the Isles knows about this "new" faction called The Destined Ones, nominally aligned with Arachnos and protected (to some extent) by the Arachnos Arbiter corps. So at level 20, Praetorian Loyalists do what, again, when they get to the Rogue Isles? Infiltrate Project Destiny? How? That doesn't make any sense!

It makes some tiny, tiny amount of sense for Tyrant to support Lord Recluse. The enemy of my enemy is, if not a friend, at the very least a useful tool. We know that Recluse is willing to negotiate with the Rikti Restructurists, you can see the Restructurist ambassador hanging out in the main entry hall of Recluse's Watchtower, the government headquarters in Grandville. If he's willing to negotiate technology transfer, if not mutual assistance, with the enemies of the entire human race against their common enemy, Freedom Phalanx, then it's not inconceivable that Recluse would welcome technological or economic or even just manpower assistance from Tyrant, especially if he perceives that his brother-in-law is getting reinforcements from the same dimension. The logic works the same way in reverse for Tyrant accepting help from Lord Recluse.

But what I can't begin to imagine how they're going to write their way around is how this gets palmed off on the level 20 to 39 contacts. The reason why people from Vince Dubrowski and Lorenz Ansaldo up through Magus Mu'Drakhan and Johnny Sonata seek you out to hire you is that by level 20, you've got a reputation. By level 20, everybody in the Isles knows how you clawed your way up out of Darwin's Landing and made a name for yourself as a villain not to be trifled with, as a serious candidate to become The Destined One, whatever the heck they think that means. How's that going to be explained when you're a brand new immigrant at level 20 who's never been in the Zig, and who doesn't know Mercy Island from Coney Island?

And just imagine heroes and villains exploring myriad grey areas of morality or switching sides completely. I think I just burst your head with your doom questioning.

I'm sure everything's being considered.

That is an interesting question.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that some of the final missions that take you from being a Praetorian/Vigilante into a Villain will involve your induction to the program. Or something like that.

Maybe Recluse decides to try and find Destined Ones from other dimensions?

Ok, what if the Loyalists cheat their way in like the VEATs?

Well, here we're venturing into spoiler territory. If you really want to know why that might not work, you can either hit the wiki up, or send me a PM and I'll give you the Cliff Notes version. I will say that it's not that easy to do, though.

Did I miss something? Was it confirmed that Going Rogue will feature no 20+ content somewhere that I missed?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Please, no Resistance=Hero, Loyalist=Villain.
Please, no Resistance=Hero, Loyalist=Villain.
Please, no Resistance=Hero, Loyalist=Villain.
Please, no Resistance=Hero, Loyalist=Villain.
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To be honest, I was/still am Hoping for 1-50 Content in Praetorian World.
So we can lvl there entire time if we want, but we'll see.

I don't mind if I want the option to say jump to Paragon/Rogue Isles to do specific Arc(Like Midnighter one, etc..)

But they really should make Going Rogue full stand alone away from CoH & V. So you can have more options to lvl. We shall see, I guess.


JJ

Actually, frrom what I can remember of the announcement, I believe the player actually makes a 'final choice' where they want to go when they leave Praetoria. So you can have a Resistance character leave to join the Rogue Isles.