Nyx

ladies, if she

not only should everyone be allowed to turn into an animal, there should be a little knob behind a panel somewhere on your body that adjusts how anthropomorphic you are between the extremes of 100% human and 100% an animal of your choice.

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the dirty secret about battletech is pretty much every faction is in the upper right quadrant, if not the upper right corner.

i like to joke battletech is way more bleak, depressing and hopeless than 40k- the imperium is absolutely fascist for sure but like, they do have tyranids and orks and literal fucking demons as at least a partial excuse for why they are the way they are.

While I broadly agree with this, iirc can't some planets (specifically those in the Federated Suns, maybe the Free Worlds League?) have governments that are different from their larger polity so long as they keep paying taxes? Most are probably still under a capitalist mode of production but I feel like if that is true at least some could have something resembling a socialist mode of production.

While there might be individual nice places to live in the Inner Sphere, they all feed a belligerent military industrialist god in the end, even if they're the exception that proves the rule.

Wherever you live, across the inner sphere and beyond, you live under the shadow of war. It doesn’t matter how generous the governor is, how pragmatic and compassionate the Star Captain who has total authority over you and your labourer friends is, how secure or insignificant your world is. The game world, Solaris VII, was desolated by the Word of Blake and conquered by Clan Wolf. The entire Periphery, even the parts far from the notice of the Great Houses, is predated by pirates, slavers, and tyrant would-be kings. The heart of the Federated Suns was taken by the Draconis Combine. Even Terra was ravaged by the IlClan trial - fuck, given how many of those movements happened in south ontario, there’s a good chance my apartment would have been destroyed in the fighting.

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the dirty secret about battletech is pretty much every faction is in the upper right quadrant, if not the upper right corner.

i like to joke battletech is way more bleak, depressing and hopeless than 40k- the imperium is absolutely fascist for sure but like, they do have tyranids and orks and literal fucking demons as at least a partial excuse for why they are the way they are.

While I broadly agree with this, iirc can't some planets (specifically those in the Federated Suns, maybe the Free Worlds League?) have governments that are different from their larger polity so long as they keep paying taxes? Most are probably still under a capitalist mode of production but I feel like if that is true at least some could have something resembling a socialist mode of production.