Advice about starting a gaian faction

[jammi]

Edit: Okay, the way I had put here looked like I wanted to picture Corsairs and Gaians into the political affairs more than they actually are. That is not very correct. What I wanted to say is that the Corsair empire is looking for expansion and territory, and the Gaians are more engaged into discussions along with the Green Front(1), along with the disruption of the Terraforming stuff(2)(3). Sorry for the incorrect info.

]_<". One, the discussions play less of a role in the Gaians. They're the by-product of the discussions, which was an extremeist eco-terrorist faction that was blinkered to more liberal arguments. You have to be if you're going to justify your actions. That's how they were founded anyway... Much alike the Hessians, who started with good intentions.

Two. The extremeist enviromentalist are a dying/dead breed. The Gaian newer generation is a full blooded piracy outfit. No morals, just piracy. Generally speaking these new Gaians don't give a damn about terraforming, Planetform or OSC. It saddens me that Gaian factions always try to take the good-guy option, rather than what the faction actually is...

Three. Any potential for the Gaians to return to an extremeist anti-terraforming organisation was more or less bulldozed by the war. To successfully acheive their goals, they need popular support. They sided with Kusari and lost every single vestige of popular support they may have had. You can't claim to have the population on your side when you're killing their soldiers, and helping the people that are trying to conquer them. Equally, the Gaians will have destroyed any influence they had in Parliment, because their actions would have marginalised the Green Front and polarised opinion against them. Honestly, the Green Front needs the Gaians like a hole in the head at the moment.

EDIT: Four. If you're going to play hardline enviromentalist, you should hate Kusari just as much as Bretonia. There are more terraforming projects in Kusari than in Bretonia*. Samura is a terraforming organisation.

[/End Gaian rant]

*To be confirmed. Probably wrong.

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