On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actually, in the OTU theres another answer. >> >> Remember the Ancients War ? Lots of planet-smashing. > > Ahh,so the Death Star was less a weapon than a really really big mining operation :-) > Long ago, played in SOE's "Star Wars:Galaxies" MMORPG My char was very pro-Imperial - "Yeah, the Empire's got problems, but we can work within the system to fix them rather than becoming terrorists" He had a long argument with a Reb-symp in a cantina on this very topic, explaining the reason we were suffering economic problems was due to the rebel terrorists destroying a major source of raw materials for this sector. Aside, with some ObTrav: Started playing and a party of us weak folks on Tatooine got swarmed by desert lizards... until a group of PC storm troopers arrived, slew them, harvested hide and meat and gave it to us, healed our wounded and then said,"Grow strong, the Empire needs you!" before riding off into the sunset. We were all still un-aligned, and it was rather impressive. A few days later, in Bestine, the Rebels raided, shooting anyone aligned with the Empire down in the streets. Then they fell back, and hit again 10 minutes later, sending a squad into the town hospital to kill all the wounded there. It was the killing of the wounded that was the last straw on deciding on which faction to support. Traveller - in YTU, does the Imperium use the Army/Marines in these kinds of 'hearts and minds' ops?
