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Would a GTI or NTF victory have been worse?
Colonol Dekker:
14 year war with zods. Plenty ot time for hate to grow. People who'd lost relatives. Constant combat with them, losing squadmates you've known since the academy.
Bitter veterans passing the resentment onto their kids etc.
BengalTiger:
--- Quote from: Colonol Dekker on January 15, 2023, 01:58:43 pm ---14 year war with zods. Plenty ot time for hate to grow. People who'd lost relatives. Constant combat with them, losing squadmates you've known since the academy.
Bitter veterans passing the resentment onto their kids etc.
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One would think that humans would be beyond such things by then...
Colonol Dekker:
You'd think, but combat vets have higher suicide rates than most for a reason.
Emotional damaaaaage.
14 years of war on a civilised society will hit no small percentage hard. Frontliners hardest, but they're only people. What happens to them will affect their family.
Nightmare:
--- Quote from: BengalTiger on January 18, 2023, 09:05:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: Colonol Dekker on January 15, 2023, 01:58:43 pm ---14 year war with zods. Plenty ot time for hate to grow. People who'd lost relatives. Constant combat with them, losing squadmates you've known since the academy.
Bitter veterans passing the resentment onto their kids etc.
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One would think that humans would be beyond such things by then...
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Biologically they should be pretty much the same beings that invented agriculture millenia ago though.
--- Quote from: 0rph3u5 on January 14, 2023, 02:48:16 pm ---The NTF might have been inevitable, even without Bosch.
Considering the force he was able to amass and the devotion of the ideas of Neo-Terra inspired, the social currents Bosch gribed hold of might have coalesed anyway. In the monologues that point is also alluded to (something something being unable to stop what I created something something).
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While the politicial stage wasnt prepared by him, :v-old: emphasized that Bosch put quite a lot of his own agenda into it. Also, w/o his support (ie military backing the governemnt and -possibly- allowing to take over in the first place) the course of events would've been much different, although *how exactly* seems almost impossible to me.
--- Quote from: Colonol Dekker on January 19, 2023, 04:52:37 am ---14 years of war on a civilised society will hit no small percentage hard. Frontliners hardest, but they're only people. What happens to them will affect their family.
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One should consider that the colonies (ie. the systems that make up the Terran part of GTVA) were both the battleground of the TV-War and the Great War while GTA command was sitting relatively safe in Sol.
Colonol Dekker:
Nobody's saying its exclusively an earth born staff.
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