Talk:Chimera Prologue/@comment-69.204.57.98-20181219225913

I just wanna make sure that when people scroll down they see something that reminds them that Ballas is insane and evil, so take everything he says with large amounts of salt.

The idea that we've been destroying potential allies is only valid if you have no regard for the well-being of the people in the solar system. The corpus are the worst kind of capitalist vampires, and rampage through worlds and over people in pursuit of returns on investments. They're wicked and horrible, and should be opposed and destroyed. The grineer are consumed by hatred of all things that are not grineer, and are slaves to a horrid orokin queen. If we left them alone, they'd kill everything that isn't them, and that includes the environment(which hey, is gonna lead to their collapse too). The infestation's whole thing is to consume and assimilate all life, we can't be ignoring them.

None of the 3 big factions we fight are potential allies. They're enemies. To someone like Ballas, they are, because he doesn't care about long term consequences or anything other than having meat to throw at the sentients, who seem to be the sins of the Orokin coming back to roost.

You could still say they're something, though, and we've been doing nothing but weakening the solar system by chipping away at the factions with power. But we haven't. Hell, the Lotus herself hasn't. We've been empowering local people by creating and defending massive relays that are hubs of independent commerce and security. We've stepped in to protect indigenous people and to grant them ways of defending themselves. We've aided the syndicates, which while clearly not as powerful as the big three, still have a great deal of influence and power; as well as being examples of how the big factions could change to become allies. Right now we're fighting alongside labor to not only bring justice, but to keep the area safe and sustainable. Capital would drain the life right out of that place and cause disasters by cutting as many corners as they could, we literally prevented total destruction of that area because of a boss getting impatient.

The system has been getting fairer and more stable as we've influenced it, not less, and Space Mom's plans aren't just about destruction; The Lotus was a core part of almost all of the construction of these networks. All told, I'd be disappointed if Edgemaster Arms was right about things; because the solar system The Lotus has been trying to make is a much better place for everyone. The idea that horrible people need to stay in control to stop worse things from happening is old news. There's a better way, and a better story to be told.