Well to be fair as we were talking about yesterday a large part of Dusts player base is American so we can see why they would sympathise with the Gallentean and Matari ideals.

I go Gallente for the philosophy alone.

Well to be fair as we were talking about yesterday a large part of Dusts player base is American so we can see why they would sympathise with the Gallentean and Matari ideals.

I picked amarr because its religious aspect is completely the opposite of my RL outlook, but also lasers and their ships look awesome, but its hard to go against your true nature and I ended up RPing as a rebel khanid mercenary, I've fought on both sides lol when they were losing, I was there when UK got pushed out of provi and I was on CVAs side when they got pushed out, fun times.

I would say that it is mostly due to the fact that most of my generation's imagery is generated by Hollywood idealism in which "good guys" may make mistakes but deserve another go and "bad guys" never have good intentions. Buzz words like democracy and diversity have positive connotations associated with the idealistic who want to change the world, which the Gallante and Minmatar are practically stamped with.

Also for the fact I stated in regard to ideology, most teens and young adults are more liberally prone and rebellious against hierarchy, so the congruence is if anything expected.

So Gallante are the weed smokers? LOL, do I have that correct?

i chose Gallente because of their ideology, sure there system is flawed, every empire or nation is flawed, the Caldari are flawed due to their ideology of profiteering, the Amarr are flawed because they are basically the religious fanatics of new eden, the Minmatar are flawed because they use emotions 90% of the time regardless of facts and proof, the Gallente are flawed because its easier for you to fall to the bottom than it to climb to the top.

Dude if you bothered to ready up on lore you would know that Blood Raiders, and other Sani Sabik Cultists are fanatics, the Amarr simply have a faith.

Those other guys are the real fanatics.

Dude if you bothered to ready up on lore you would know that Blood Raiders, and other Sani Sabik Cultists are fanatics, the Amarr simply have a faith.

Those other guys are the real fanatics.

The Sani Sabik cults are not mentioned when picking one of the four selectable races. When you start Dust (and I assume EVE), the Amarr are the only ones mentioned to have faith, thus instantly the religious fanatics.

the lore is where I got everything from. in the lore of the amarr when you listen to the audio version says:

"the Amarr Empire is the largest and oldest of the 4 empires, ruled by a mighty empress the Amarr are capable of great acts and great tyranny, all in the name of their god".

So Gallante are the weed smokers? LOL, do I have that correct?

Tyranny has also gotten a severely negative connotation when it simply means a society ruled by a single leader. It doesn't necessarily imply that the ruler is evil or doesn't think in the best interest of his or her people.

I imagine that the definition of tyranny in this case is stemmed towards the amarr's history of killing everyone who thinks differently and mercilessly destroying civilizations weaker than them because their god demands it.

the lore is where I got everything from. in the lore of the amarr when you listen to the audio version says:

"the Amarr Empire is the largest and oldest of the 4 empires, ruled by a mighty empress the Amarr are capable of great acts and great tyranny, all in the name of their god".

The Ammar were slavers and I'm just too much of a good guy at heart to ever condone it, even to digital avatars.

Minmatar/Caldari support. I chose Minmatar initially because I read "The Empyrean age" book. The Minmatar, in that book seemed like righteous crusaders of freedom against oppression and were depicted as (somewhat stupid) victims to fate. They also lived by my usual tactics of "hit hard and get the F*** out!" Truth is, even if the lore is now making them look bad, they are still my favorite race.

The Gallente seemed just too American Idealist for my taste, (I figured they would get a lot of "Mericuh F*** Yeah" and I didn't want in on that.) even if I don't see them that way anymore.

The Ammar were slavers and I'm just too much of a good guy at heart to ever condone it, even to digital avatars.

For the Caldari, the only reason I didn't like them was because of what I had read about Heth, but now that Heth has disapeared I support them. Their lore is my second favorite even if it depicts them as cold and calculating.

Minnies are okay in my books...don't take the the wrong way PIE, I just have no hate for them....however it do want to see them reclaimed by God.

Where did you gather that bunch of lies? The Amarr only engage in war with those who threaten their way of life, as do the other empires. They don't destroy civilizations, they assimilate them. They are not the only race to partake in assimilation, look at your own Gellente with the Intaki and Jin-Mei. All the empires have expanded and taken over other civilizations to become as expansive as they are now.

The thing about Ammarian slavery is it is different than the slavery that existed on Earth. Here we enslaved people because we needed the labor and viewed the slaves as inferior. There was never an intention to one day free them. With the Amarr, their slavery is more of a right of passage. Their ancestors dealt with hardships which formed the core beliefs their culture runs on, and in order to understand it they believe the other societies must too experience that. They do not look down upon the slaves though, in fact one of their past emperors made it law to treat the slaves with the utmost respect. They truly believe what they are doing is a good service to them, and they fully intend to free them after their passage is complete and welcome them as equals among their society.

Kind of sounds like an abusive relationship
"I only hit you because I love you"

Expect we don't hit slaves..... as he said.

Fair call but the only thing you can say that is kind of negative about the amarr is the slavery and even that is idealistically explain by their progressive system of amalgamation into a single collective race.

Kind of sounds like an abusive relationship
"I only hit you because I love you"