A little late... but Tyrant was RIGHT!

We were keeping an "eye" on them the entire time, now if another dimension was doing that to us we would see that as an act of war
We've invaded other dimensions and destroyed their civilians/populace simply to fix our scanners.

All those missions we go into other dimensions to fix the dimensional rifts, instead of seeking out a peaceful solution what do we do? Yes we charge in and destroy all who get in our way to fix the rifts or simply to repair the scanners so we can continue to spy on other dimensions.

Sometimes you have to stand back and wonder just what makes us think we are so important that we can judge what is right or wrong in another dimension? We started the war with Praetoria, a dimension in which while their methods were questionable, they were a place of peace [in relative to our own] that had at least delayed a monster so strong that it could wipe our own dimension out.
With us invading Praetoria, we have awakened the beast to possibly destroy the dimension. A lot of the heroes/villains havent even gone there to save the people of Praetoria, but rather to seek more power along the paths of their incarnate lines.

So ask yourself this. Who are the real bad guys here?

• The person who was able to stop/delay a monster so strong that nothing was able to defeat it? A person who [despite his methods] is trying to create a peaceful place for his people?
• The people who have looked over to this other dimension and decided they are in the wrong and should be using our ideals as their laws. The people who have initiated a war with another dimension to reach their own goals?

Don't forget, Portal Corp isn't the only group that does cross-dimensional research. Arachnos has their equivalent, as does Crey, and the Traditionalists, and any number of the independent mad scientists that the Rogue Isles are infested with.

And Nemesis. A million times over. Don't forget the time he slipped into another dimension and killed billions of people because they were too black for him.

I'm sure all the heroes in Paragon are fantastic people, and Portal Corp is a responsible corporate citizen, but Primal Earth really sucks at cleaning up its own messes. If my entire population's lives were entirely dependant on not making some science horror feel threatened, learning that Primal Earth knows where I live would freak me out.

Eh, this is the "Longbow is evil" argument all over again. People with an axe to grind will paint Primal Earth as the aggressor in everything it's involved in, despite the fact that Tyrant is revealed to be very much a card-carrying villain and horrible, oppressive ruler. I'm not a fan of what iTrials have us do - essentially go to an alternate dimension and make life miserable for everyone - but that's just me not liking the methods. If we want to be objective, there's really no excuse for not trying diplomacy before you start building an army of death robots. I thought General Bu'Dekka established this as early as Issue 10.

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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.

I think that they should have put some Praetors who arent pure evil into that world, just to try and create a sense of true balance within the world.

One thing that does confuse me about Praetoria is that Cole is the leader but you barely hear anything about him. Each attack is of course approved by him, but it seems [to me at least] that it is the Praetors who are all trying to gain his attention/approval that are calling the shots really.

It almost feels like Cole is reluctant to engage in any sort of fight.

As already established earlier, Tyrant's truce also forced his hand in regard to the discovery of Primal Earth. He couldn't be seen as trying to form an alliance with Primal Earth, for fear of Praetorian Hamidon reigniting the war and wiping out the rest of humanity. And, considering that most of our growth in power occurred as part of the war, it's quite likely that we couldn't actually have been of much help, just a danger.

Maelstorm probably also informed Tyrant how a huge portion of the Primal Earth population was a bunch of power hungry, violent villains, that already had a record of igniting inter-dimensional wars. That won't exactly make you confident the other side will stick their kneck out for you. And, lets just for a moment say Tyrant had secretly reached out and formed an alliance with Primal Earth to fight Hamidon... and somehow the alliance won... Would Praetorian Earth be in any position to keep Primal Earth from deciding that would be a convenient time to end the little alliance and gain ourselves a second earth?

Tyrant had no "good" options available to himself.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.