If I had to guess, considering how it went for them last time (Visari), not to fond of them.
how do you mean, since the Republic is the overarching government and is democratic. What another member planets government is should hardly matters to a Helghan citizen. A member planets would still follow every law they do, it just has a different way of selecting a planetary administrator to implement Republic laws. The Helghast elect theirs, where as another planet might have a king(if that's their culture) or something else enforce Republic law. What really matters is who the representative is, cause only the representative has a chance to change Republic laws.
K that's BS, just because somebody is for democracy, doesn't at all mean that they are in turn against (morally or even professionally) another type of government. It simply means that's what they like.
Huh, I thought it was pretty clear in the description of the states (though maybe I hid it a little too well). The Khan is an autocrat who has an advisory council she doesn't necessarily have to listen to but often does due to politics, while the Prospero Pact are a collection of city-states with a franchise limited to perhaps 30% of their population at most (landowning, male, citizen). Which one is better depends on your point of view, I suppose, but both have adapted to the harsh conditions of their planet for better or worse.
I mean, I don't live in Queensland, but if the Premier there had supreme power, I'd be rather concerned. Heck, battalions worth of people volunteered to fight against the Directorate.
I was under the impression that it was because of all the human rights violations. Lady Arano herself is...well, she operates like the Khan of Caliban, I think.
Well if it was on the same land mass/planet, or they continually committed numerous types of atrocities when there was very viable alternative and are complete aresholes like the Directerate. Then ya, ya they might be worried.
Well for one, could you at least try to pick a comparison that makes even the tiniest bits of sense. Because what you just described is pure nonsense, I'm unsure what I would have to ignore for that embarrassing excuse for a example to even work. LIke what were you thinking, of course they would dislike each other, from their prior and recent history they have with each other. And the continued threats among many other issues. what a bad example.
Vasari is a complicated person in Helghan society. He isn't hated or considered perfect. Because people understand both his actions good and bad. It also wasn't Vasari that did the Civil War that forced the people to rise up. That was the remaining power players that wanted to take control no matter the cost.
No they aren't because that list is not properly set up. For one no action was ever able to affect any party but the leading one even when the action taken wasn't something that party should be doing. As for being left leaning that just means they are more for leftist policy not that they care about particular government stlye. After all plenty of leftist Regimes in the world are in no way democratic.
Because the Directorate was preforming war crimes and atrocities that we were able to confirm. And considering they join to reinstate a monarch that doesn't really paint a democratic picture. Especially considering that post-war she didn't reinstate the council with the planetary representatives. It is still her as executive leader with more power than before the war and the founding houses representatives. Also since quite a few of the planets in the coalition aren't exactly democratic themselves. Several in fact are run by the local Noble families. Others by oligarchs specifically the heart of their industry which we are directly working with and helping. Others are run by mining conglomerates/companies and one was a straight-up theocracy.
Standards of living and civil rights along with straight-up just normal human rights don't require a democracy to enforce. We as the overarching supreme power has the federal government would be able to enforce those standards on any member world and if they refused well there's a reason we have the largest army. Democracy is great and if we find more worlds that are like that then yeah they will probably be snatched up but pretending it is the only possible way for things to work is foolish. We live in a world that's not perfect that'll take us even less perfect so we have to deal with the cards we are dealt with not what we want to have.
Again, outsider observer: the QM asked a leading question. QMs generally only ask leading questions when the players or a subset thereof are waltzing down the primrose path to Hilarity Junction and is trying to sound out if they really wanna do that.
Couldn't care less. If the QM doesn't say anything definitive, it's up to the players to decide. As like pretty much every other quest has been.
I just want people to be mindful of the internal politics of their state, is all. If y'all start doing anything heinous, I'll let you know, but I doubt I'll have to.
Well, the messaging could use work...
I was thinking of doing something like that for the energy shields, so extending it out to other items makes sense.
and you assume we wouldn't give her a PR person why?
Things come out, then gets forgotten months later after a new scandal about a celebrity. Welcome to the attention span of a typical citizen.
So no different then the same shit the Helghan have done and in fact much less damning and horrible. Like I said that is the nature of the beast the people won't care much of anything and it sure as hell won't cause unrest. Because for one she isn't going to be allowed to keep doing that nor will she have to once she has our support. Those actions are required when there is nothing else that can be done. If a enemy will not submit you do not leave them on your flank you remove them one way or another.
By bigger I am talking about taking up one more space in the critical slots not they are the size of a Naval gun and do the damage of a mech gun like what we got with the lasers.
No, I know what you mean. What I mean is that I've been thinking of ways to have technology change as it matures, and one of them has been to have it get smaller or be more reliable --energy shields are just one of the first items I've needed to think up rules for.
It would be the second or third planet entering into the Republic. It would be pretty important and noteworthy on its own regardless of its political makeup.
Nah sorry Advent I'll stick to my current vote as I don't think we have enough info to make a decision on how to handle the situation on Caliban yet and it isn't a thinly veiled invasion with zero information gathering like Darkandus's write in is.
Cool on the shield thing. And yeah that makes sense for maturing technology. Another option is the heat produced older models tend to produce more heat as well. Certain techs can also be more heavy though that is limited to those that use ammo in some way.
So you want to spend even more time being wasted on this when we have more important things we need to move on to and focus on instead. This planet is a AP sink at this point why would we keep drawing it out? Any Intel we get would be gathered by our units deployed to stop the fighting and force a peace. Waiting gets us nothing that would be worth it. We already got the leaders to confirm that they aren't shining examples of people but that was always going to be the case? What more do you think we will find that will be useful? Any military intelligence would be gathered by our ships, satellites and agents deployed with the ground forces. Any civilian intel will also be gain by agents with the deployed forces and by having the people stand down and join our side. As for the camps they won't work because not only would we not be allowed to set up in the territory of the factions as we are basically telling them to F-off there is nowhere near enough people to make a third side at all. Not to mention that just how are our agents going to get into places that would allow them to get intel without the factions letting us in? Also the amount of forces needed to "protect the camps" would be the same as an invasion force because we would need a powerful number of units to dissuade any attacks. And that would be be nearly if not larger than any one sides forces. So all plans involving camps are an invasion in all but name.
Are you serious? No really are you serious? Because while we have other actions for bread and butter stability and prosperity the main topic is the situation in Caliban. I do not condone both of these governments and I'm pretty sure the government would fall if we immediately jump to one side and you are advocating an autocrat. This planet is small enough that their leaders are not worth it to defend them and it would be easier for them to swallow democratization than having protestors storm government buildings to make a point. Our people have voted left multiple times since the start of this quest with the composition in parliament to show for it. This means a party having a social democratic or democratic socialist values would be a shoe in to become a party of government and our constituents would know that it is a betrayal if we support an autocrat or an oligarch to unify a planet when we can do an intervention instead. Lastly, this is not a presidential system with a unified executive but a government under a Westminster system so a lot of policy has to go through parliament and we have no way of covering this up. News would be blaring at we did and protests would flare up for the decidedly undemocratic principles the government has proposed.
