I didn't say conquering the world is moral, I specifically said taking over the Restoration is not good. And over time we can change. Eggman will always want control, but we're trying to see if we can at least control without being a total evil asshole like some of our versions. We have good versions too, like Kintober and Tinker.
You said "convince them that what they've lost can't be salvaged without causing a lot of undue pain, at which point they will be the bad guys." I heavily object to that framing. I apologize if you didn't mean that though and were more talking about the propaganda that would be used to get people to lie their arms down.
Against us sure that's a certainty. We're never going to be able to make a lasting peace with them.
But what you have to keep in mind here is that this plan is after we've established our industry, and we actually have an army with us and we're prepared for that fight.
If we make this a defensive war that starts when we are liberating VC people and force the restorations heroes into fighting people that are just trying to get their freedom? That is a terrible thing for them to have to deal with.
Blowing up robots, they have no issues with that blowing iup innocent people fighting for a noble cause? Oh, you best believe that the good guys are going to have issues with that kind of fight.
I want you to try to figure out the situation where Tangle would be okay with killing people fighting for their freedom and the one that saved them while she did nothing.
The conflict is inevitable, so we need to make it one where we have an advantage. And the biggest I can think of Is a human shield army. At least against the restoration.
With Gun they'll kill the VC guys. But if we complicate the war and gun has to balence a fight against us with a fight against the black arms and the Empire's public image making the war unpopular.
And how are we supposed to make significant progress against Max, one of the hardest kings to remove, with only two second actions?
We've been recommended before to not fight the other kings before dealing with GUN and the Restoration. Yes, they will be perfectly willing to attack Eggman while he attacking someone else because they aren't stupid. This is basic pattern recognition. How are we even supposed to get that many "VC" units anyways? We have to spend a martial action to get one unit of darcsen. That's going to do basically nothing to affect the Restoration's decision making.
I'd like to remind you of what Towers mentioned. He mentioned they had people who had come from realities where Eggman had established his reign. Among those include
Archie. There's going to be people from Underground spreading word of the roboticizer. So the idea of Eggman sending innocents to fight them isn't going to be revolutionary. The Restoration is going to have people from there too. The horrors that Eggman has unleashed in victory is going to far outweigh the weight assigned to Eggman going on a freedom campaign.
Eggman also only has 7 Heart. How are we supposed to achieve this massively successful propaganda campaign? With again, only two second actions? We have an action to do that, Launch a PR campaign. It has a DC of 100 and only works on people not familiar with him, including the young. The citizens of GUN and the Restoration are not unfamiliar with Eggman.
This is entirely impractical and unintuitive.
You have heard the reports of several people coming from a similar reality to this one, but where Eggman had established his reign for a significant amount of time already.
If he was that kind of monster they were dealing with now…There would not be much to do but brace themselves for trying times.
I mean, what's the point of being a king if there's nobody to boss around?
As I said, right now. And we have people to boss around right now. We'll get more when we defeat GUN and the Restoration.
