Faction membership rules, role play rules

[Craines]

The definition of organic is as follows:

viewing or explaining something as having a growth and development analogous to that of living organisms: an organic theory of history.

Or

of or pertaining to the basic constitution or structure of a thing; constitutional; structural: The flaws in your writing are too organic to be easily remedied.

Thanks, dictionary.com!

What is the point of this, you ask? I'm simply building my point up. We must make sure that we are understanding everything correctly, for the slightest variance could lead to disaster, and of course, flames. So!

I find it interesting that one can be confined and organic. My argument is that the idea of a structured plan or outline trumps that of an organic idea. Knowing where something is gonna go means that it isn't organic, but structured. Because we play a role-playing game, in which we must follow a set of rules that are pregoverned and essentially supply us with a limited number of choices, it cannot be fully organic. But then again, it cannot be fully structured because of the 'free-will' phenomenon that humans have.

Ergo, Discovery is a...

CYBORG! (Dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!)

So perhaps the only way we could follow the IDs directly is if we deleted all the NPCs, and therefore, our actions are implicitly those of the ID.

Or! More sanely,

We could choose to be either structured, in which we must follow the ID explicitly without wiggle room at all, or we could choose to be completely organic, in which we would be able to define our own path and not be governed by our factions, but instead govern our faction.

The ambiguity that can arise makes this decision necessary. We might not like it, but as Discovery grows, we'll need to make things clear-cut to avoid confusion.

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