Thread:AngryLance/@comment-39280634-20200815164358/@comment-27666783-20200816025948

It all depends on the context...

Making a happy-go-lucky optimistic adventure is not undoable, Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek is about a utopian humanity that has solved all manner of moral and civil crises, the characters of the show did not even have internal conflicts. The kicker is that each episode revolves around them being put in a nightmare scenario and them clawing their way out.

In my Avalon thing I always am wary I might be inoculating things too far, making the superhumans too 'super', but than I am reminded of the fact that parity is the most terrible form of war... As long as I keep things on the equal playing field on an individual level, conflict is bound to occur.

If now I could just put my thoughts into something coherent... I'll get RP posts out i swear...

“The real issues are whether the power of this new evolution of mankind, as may the Grails have permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands, shall defy and defeat tyranny; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens, and deride the dignity of man and mamono, shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his individual rights are sacred; whether we are to survive with a moral hand to guide and lead us, or to perish in the dead existence of a immoral world.”

''“In the wet reaches of Commonwealth-Dominion War, one Ratatoskr commentator rather plaintively remarked that warfare had not changed so much, after all. For some reason, ground troops still seemed to be necessary, in spite of this 'atom bomb'. And oddly and unfortunately, to this Ratatoskr, man still seemed to be an important ingredient in battle. Troops were still getting killed, in pain and fury and dust and filth. What happened to the widely-heralded pushbutton warfare where skilled, immaculate technicians who never suffered the misery and ignominy of basic training blew each other to kingdom come like gentlemen?''

In this unconsciously plaintive cry lies the buried a great deal of the truth why the Commonwealth of Avalon was almost defeated by its authoritarian brother nation.

''Nothing had happened to pushbutton warfare; its emergence was at hand. Horrible weapons that could destroy every city on all the realms were at hand, at too many hands. But, pushbutton warfare meant Armageddon, and Armageddon, hopefully, will never be an end of national policy. Avalonians rediscovered something that since the chief god purged them in fire they had forgotten. You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life, but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the ancient legions did: ''

By putting your young men in the mud.”