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Originally Posted by martinl
My bad. My personal gut reaction is that leaving folks under the thumb of autocrats at TL 4 when TL 10 is available costs lots of lost potential lifespan and involves constant small scale atrocity to keep the aristos in power, but of course the Empire doesn't work like that.
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One day the Empire will get strong enough to actually suppress the D5+ atrocities, famines, and epidemics that keep it busy now, and then it will have time for systematic attention to D4s. A little later and it will turn to D3s, which is about the scale of the worse battles and repressive massacres on Navabharata. Eventually it will be reduced to dealing with D1s, and then our free-range days will be over. And finally it will start worrying about the fact that not everyone is getting eugerione.
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Not to be pessimistic about human nature, but why not? 10,000 autocratic states and none are as bad as the Nazis?
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You can't murder six million people in death camps when you only rule fifty thousand. Navabharata is not afflicted with psychotic race-hatred. Murdering Jews, Gypsies, liberals, communists etc. to steal their stuff makes a certain sort of sense, or even killing them because you were raised to hate them. Massacring your own workforce, whom you were raised to think of as a sort of ****able livestock, is less conceptually obvious. The gods aren't likely to massacre peasants unless the peasants attempt a jacquerie and lose, or even worse, succeed. Attempts at radical social reform are likely to make jacqueries more common.
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You might want to emphasize this attitude in your continuing drive to make the Mink creepy.
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It's always there, but players, especially who play mink, tend to forget what monsters the mink are. Always their minds on the glossy fur and the playful pouncing, never on the teeth and blood and the dead bunnies.