tenbones
Grand Poobah of the D.O.N.G.
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But the Coalition are an Nazi analog. And like the real political party of our past, it's just the LEADERS that are the real bad guys, the populace are just dupes who believed in them. And they're meant to be used like the Pulp equivalent, as general goons to beat up and blast.
It's too easy to say that, but let's be real, the circumstances of the Coalition and the Nazis are *radically* different.
Prosek *is* a megalomaniac, but he's also terrified of the cosmic terrors that have invaded the world. Anyone in their right mind *should* be scared. I mean... ORCS are literally running around west/north west part of America raping and pillaging and siding with evil forces against humanity. And that's the least of humanity's worries.
The position of the CS that makes it so "Nazi-like" is the wholesale destruction of anything "not human" - obviously. It's shooting all the babies in the bathwater before throwing them out. And it also, obviously, precludes the fact that humans themselves have supernatural proclivities that existed prior to the Rifts that only now are coming online... so yeah it's too drastic a solution.
But in the long run... they're doing something about it. At great terrible cost. For me - it's interesting. While it's fun to say "Let's do a CS campaign!" - half the fun for me is putting PC's into those morally grey zones where they're justified and not-justified to do what they think needs to be done. But I recognize not everyone likes playing like that heheh.