| From: | Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Who's Humanis of SRII? |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:48:06 -0500 |
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>> Captain Chaos is a decker based out of Denver and is originally from San
>> Francisco. He hates the Humanis Policlub, leading one to believe he's
>> either a metahuman or has close ties with some meta-humans.
>
>Or he's basically a decent person *gasp*. Funny, but I always got the
>impression of CC being a "Nice Guy" - which is unexpected, but he
>certainly seems to have morals!
Ah, so the Humanis Policlub is "bad" in your campaign, and ORC and MOM are
"good"? That's like saying Aztechnology is the Bad Corp, and Ares Macrotech
is the Good Corp. What's Aztechnology doing? Trying to strengthen Aztlan's
magical ties to fight off the tzimin (or however that's spelt) when they
arrive. What's Ares doing? Fighting bugs.
[potential rough waters here] Or it's like saying the NRA is "bad" when the
majority of the NRA members believe that the NRA is an organization devoted
to gun safety and promoting legal sporting (shooting) events. Sure, there
are rabid NRA gun nuts trying to keep the tree hugging liberals from banning
thier guns.
Translate this to the Humanis Policlub, and you've got a majority of humans
either afraid of the metas or wanting to band together to ensure that the
orks, trolls, elves, and dwarves don't get laws passed that favor them over
humans. After all, there are metahuman groups out there trying to get their
race equal treatment, why not have humans who want equal treatment as well?
And with this group of humans, you get the racists flocking to the Policlub,
just like you get radical pro-gun (or anti-gun control) people flocking to
the NRA.
My gamers haven't gone against either the Humanis Policlub or against any of
the Meta-human Policlubs, yet during character generation, three of the six
characters that have any policlub contacts all chose the metahuman oriented.
NOTE FOR THE SANITY OF THE MAILING LIST: I used the NRA as an example. I
don't mean to spark off a debate on the NRA. That's not the purpose of this
mailing list, so please don't start rebuttals to the NRA stuff because
that'll lead to a flame war, and nobody wants that.
Thanks.
-Thomas Deeny
the Cartoonist at large is on the web at www2.cy-net.net/~fauxpas
Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.
