I hate every Praetorian

A) It's fiction.
B) My only Praetorian's in the Power line.
C) Play the damn game.

I disagree I done the Warden Arc on the Resistance Side and some of these people have some valor to them. There are two types of Arc on each side, Warden for Resistance which does things the good way and Crusaders who does whatever it take to bring down Cole and that means hurting other. On the Loyalist side you got the the same Deal, either be a force of justice or create Chaos, also to remind you guys preatoria was suppose to be a the bad guys in the past, Do to GR coming out we found out not all of them are evil, but a large number of them are.

Interrogator Kang is a nice guy. I would share a pint with him.

I've had an absolute field day playing through the Resistance>Warden arc with the Praetorian version of Andrea Blake. I can't say she's LIKED every Praetorian she's met, but she respects most of them. (Not all. The ones who want to blow up hospitals, she'd happily beat into the ground.)

And everything she does is motivated by giving people a CHOICE. I've not had the chance yet to go through the others, but I'm curious if all the arc paths start 'small' and end up affecting things on a larger scale. That's why principles are such slippery things to hold on to...

*spoilers follow*

Force Paolo to leave or allow him to stay? I let him stay - forcing him to leave "for his own good and the good of others" smacked too much of what Cole and his regime are about.

Free the Seers or not? This one was harder for me, but I did it anyway and freed them - because the burden of adhering to and enforcing moral and humane behaviour should be borne by each individual, not forced onto the shoulders of a select few, some of whom didn't want that burden to begin with.

Blow up the Enriche plant? At that one, I balked - I couldn't do it... I sat at my computer and argued with myself for a good 10 minutes about whether I'd do it or not, and was almost set to blow it up... but six months of suffering and disease and death just so Vanguard could come in and 'save' them? No. Deliberately bringing the populace to the brink of disaster and then rescuing them sounded too much like what Cole had done, and look where that ended up.

*end spoilers*

It's this distinct lack of "black and white" that I'm really liking about GR... if heroism were easy, everyone would do it. And how many villains are just true anarchists? It's those subtle shades of grey that I think are making these some of the best arcs in the game. Now if we could get more like these in PC and the RI, this game really would take on a whole new dimension.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

a. Roll a Scrapper.
b. Kill everyone.
c. Problem solved!

=)

I find it significant that for the most part the Resistance is all "Revenge, revenge, revenge," (or even, "lets just cause mayhem because we can!") but the Loyalists are all "We must make sacrifices for the greater good." Even the Loyalist contact whose only daughter is a Seer.

The back story makes it fairly clear that humanity was on the verge of being wiped out by Hamidon until Cole took charge. The area is an exploration of the extremes needed to keep the people protected from a much larger and overwhelming threat.

On one hand, those of us from this dimension could easily see Cole's government as overly oppressive. But on the other hand with the looming DE threat it might really be necessary to keep the remaining humans safe at all costs.

I'm thinking that if the Resistance won, they would not be able to hold back the DE threat that has engulfed the world. Sure the oppression would be gone, but then there would be the running and screaming...

In a sense, the oppressive Cole regime may seem cruel, but it looks like it might be necessary.

That said, I still end up helping the Resistance, usually as a double agent.