If curious why it's wrong, just read it out loud.
Uh? I honestly don't know what you're talking about.
Edit... was going to toss an image of Nia up for reference... but would that get me in trouble? Her outfit doesn't leave that much to the imagination 😅
I don't think it's that bad, nothing that breaks the rules as far as I'm aware. And, hey, it was in a nintendo game!
I feel that this chapter was just trying to justify working with the Empire. There is no such thing a part time NAZI. Even arguing that Max
Anders does not really believe in them is no justification. Don't even bring the "For the Greater Good" argument
I'm not presenting this as the 'good' option by any stretch of the imagination. The characters were not happy with the decision they made but see it as what would led to the better outcome for everyone. When someone is balancing so many different problems as they are, answer don't become as clean or nice. With limited time and resources, they had to asked themselves if punishing the attacker was more important than helping the victims and this was their answer.
Where is Nia from?
Also how do they know he faked his death?
Nia is from Xenoblade 2.
And they know that he faked his death because Kaiser died but Max Anders is still very much alive.
Honestly, the biggest concern here is Max didn't get rid of the rest of his gang and people amongst them knew he was Kaiser.
True, but that's a double-edge sword for him. If it becomes public that Kaiser is alive and that he's a traitor to the glorious Nazi movement, his death will be an extremely ugly one.
The best possible idea, in this case, is for Max to die of seeming natural causes.
Just killing him is still an easy option so long as they don't just shoot him in broad daylight
That is what they were considering, just with extra steps. Taylor put an end to the idea, and not because 'oh, no, we shouldn't kill'. She said that. She has become okay with villains dying in the middle of battle, but to order the death of someone who become an annoyance, under the shadows and without anyone knowing that it was them? That's an absurdely slippery slope. She doesn't want to become the kind of person who can just point at other person and coldly order their deaths. At least not yet.
If she's to kill him, at least she'd like to be public about it.
Also, REALLY looking forward to Nia spending time with Panacea.
Uff, those two would get along like fire and oil. Between Nia's snark and Panacea's self-deprecation? It would be definitely fun to see.
Peter is overlooking the obvious solution of replacing Max Anders with a Doppleganger.
That would be incredibly hard to do, they'd need someone who can behaves exactly like him to trick everyone. And that goes back to the above problem of Taylor not liking that aspect of all the cloak and dagger business that they are doing.
I hoped that he wont take the easy road and stick to punishing evil even if it is hard and leads to millions people dead.
You do realize that, when you put it like that, that's exactly what Cauldron does, right? They sacrifice uncountable lives for an objective that they see as, ultimately, good.
It's also incredibly easy to say that from this side of the screen, where all those people are nothing more than a line or two in a piece of paper. For Peter, who has seen them and realized that, yes, they are human being with their own desires and dreams, it's not that easy to sacrifice them as if they were nothing more than trash to be burnt.
Hmm i don't get their whining they can just work with him now then kill him later
Yes, that's exactly what they decided at the end. They will bid their time and use the knowledge of Kaiser's identity to prepare a better counterattack.
He has the power to make a difference and improve the city's situation by killing the gangs or at least putting the fear of god in them, but keeps pussyfooting around.
Instead of that he'll try to improve the city by revitalizing the economy and generating jobs. Something that, many people would argue, could achieve things that just punching villains will never be able to.
Yeah, the biggest issue I have with this chapter is that nobody talked about the risk of dealing with Max and then Max getting exposed by someone other than them. There are a lot of people who know who Max is, and some of those people could react badly when Max obviously betrayed them.
They did. Well, they framed it as them unmasking him, but they did discuss what would happen if he was unmasked. Yes, their image would get damaged, but as long as they keep their stories straight and claim that they didn't know they will survive.
Like, honestly the correct action here, from a Heavy Gear standpoint, may be to walk away entirely. Going after Max is too risky, but embracing him is also too risky. They should go elsewhere for money and connections. Get their new healer up and running. Sell her services as a universal cure for enough money to start up the portal business. Don't make the mistake of thinking just because they are caught in a moral dilemma that they must choose one or the other.
Yes, that was a perfectly valid option. In hindsight, I should have added a couple lines of them discussing them. The problem with that option is that it leaves them with nothing outside that fuzzy feeling of doing the right thing without achieving anything of lasting impact. Yes, they could have waited. Maybe with Nia they could have made enough money to do everything on their own, but that would have taken time and they weren't sure if that would have worked. Anders offered them that had a high chance of working as predicted.
Some chapter ago OP said that it was near, so... is the Ultralisk action next chapter?
Mmmm, definitely not. But if I manage to put all the scenes I want in the next chapter, then there will probably be Ultralisk action in the chapter after that one. Whitin the next 4 chapters surely.
