(08-15-2018, 10:18 PM)Shelco Wrote: Are your characters really that credulous to believe everything that the Gallic Royal Navy tells you just because you are the enemies of Liberty? Basically, you witnessed and survived the murderous acts of the GRN eversince it started and now, all of a sudden, you believe they are the ones harmed because their Admiral tells you? That's ridiculous considering you are calling Libertonians that have not become Separatists yet traitors, when you separate yourselves from your former home, kill their law enforcement and then also agree that the Royal Navy's plans are the righteous ones. To me this does not look like a "thinking in character" situation at all, I think you just want to rally up everything that's red to the Navy atm, because in no way would anyone who says their intention is to free and protect the libertonian people state that a megalomaniac-absolutistic-kingdom that killed countless of the people you swore to protect is "truly right" with its intentions in Liberty and believe the obvious propaganda.
Nice comm by Lanakov, though.
The Separatists fairly overtly want to overthrow the government of Liberty and install a military dictatorship to keep the Nomads out, under the philosophy that "Might makes right". They're soldiers, fighting against the civilian government. The Separatists are not pro-democracy, they're pro "Law-and-Order", as it were. They're kinda' unique in the fact they're to the rightwing of the Liberty Navy. The current Bering conflict began because the Unioners withheld war supplies out of concern that the system was being forcibly put under martial law, and the Unioners are an interesting mixture of Post-planetary Syndicalists with authority issues (I.E: the very opposite of that). The Separatists are effectively a Junta. It's fascinating RP, and they make natural allies for the Gauls.
In general, Separatists value fulfilling strategic objectives over anything else. They're not exactly Markus Walker here, they're more like hard-right militarised terror organisations in Latin America during the 80s.
The GRN are fellow soldiers ruled by a pro-military autocrat. They're not dissimilar philosophically.
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