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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.It can be played either way. It's hard to determine how "awful" a government really is just from two UWP stats. -
Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.A calendar, some galactic directions, a page of library data and a couple of paragraphs for each subsector is not what I would call...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Pretty much, yeah. It's big enough to be whatever the Referee wants in a particular corner of it. Also true, though I think the view...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.As I said earlier, that is an argument that can be reasonably made. I think GDW's intent is pretty clear, though. (*Spoiler Alert*)...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Bland synchs alternate copies of himself several times during the novel while active in one or more hosts and it's nothing like his...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Like? Bland learns in the afterlife the name of his grandson (Jonathan), that his vengeance on the funeral monument director Fen...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.It's an alliance of convenience, "enemy of my enemy"-type situation. The Imperium are more obviously expansionist than the Zhodani and...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.We disagree. Supplement 3 is at best a vague sketch. It's also very different in tone from products produced only a year later.
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Yep. The Fifth Frontier War completed the reversal of that initial depiction, showing the Ine Givar were terrorists fully willing to...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Which was before they came up with the basic background of the Third Imperium. "The Imperium" in those early materials was a...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.You are correct, my mistake. To quote Shannon Appelcline in Free Trader Beowulf: "Even when GDW began publishing supplements, they...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Obviously. Note that I'm arguing what GDW's intent was. You may believe they did a poor job of depicting the Imperium as the good...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.A few thoughts on Agent of the Imperium: Is Bland intended to be heroic? Yes, it seems clear he is. Yes, he kills billions during...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.Q: Was the Third Imperium, as presented in Classic Traveller, intended by the game's designers to be the good guys, or the bad guys? A...
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Bense replied to the thread Thoughts on the Dark Imperium.It was, of course, more complicated than that. Margaret could not merely say "I'm the Empress and I'm ordering that world scrubbed." It...