Which is your favorite faction and why?

[流れ星]

For me it's the Initiative. Why? Because they do exactly what I would do if a hive of programmable all-purpose drones showed up on my doorstep. Figure out how to hack them, take control and put them to use for the greater good. My greater good.

All the other factions are deluded fools.

HF and Resistance are giving in to their primal fears, they're wasting a rare opportunity that may well be humanity's one and only chance to grow powerful enough to survive the ultimate evil that's lurking out there in the dark. These two factions don't deserve to be called human. They're animals following their primitive animal instincts. Wasteful and destructive. Fortuna gifts them an entire alien race and they throw it away. There is no excuse.

The Academy are naive bleeding-heart liberals. They call the invaders "sentient life", anthropomorphize them, idealize them. They call the invaders equals. Completely oblivious of what "equal" truly implies: The invaders are like us. Aggressive territorial expansionists who will stab you in the back whenever it appears beneficial to them. An existential threat to all other life in the universe. An existential threat to us. Any eye-level peace with the aliens can only be temporary and will only be used to prepare the next war against us. The Academy approach is arrogant and superstitious, they talk of peace and cooperation without any clue how to enforce it when the aliens don't play along.

Exodus are even more arrogant. They believe they could face the ultimate evil with a single ship and win. All while being pursued by an alien race that knows everything about them and fires warship after warship after warship in their direction. Like a biological machine gun. They're doomed. They don't have the resources to fight a war. They only have one ship and no mines at all.

Servants and protectorate don't even deserve a comment. They're cattle. They have given up the fight for the survival of humanity before it even began. Shame.

What's your take on all that? Which factions do you prefer?

[Damedius]

Suffer not the Xeno.

[ulzgoroth]

Well, if you meant it seriously that's funny at least.

[ExavierMacbeth]

Personally I am Exodus... but that just because it fits with my opinion of "Screw Earth, I want to go live somewhere else"

Granted I would handle things alot differently than the 1 ship policy... Either that or that one ship would be death star class (minus the fatal flaw) and I would dare the aliens to follow me :P

[BrowneHawk]

I also leaned more towards Initiative. Initial reason, the leader Avatar. I don't play as chicks in games, takes away immersion for me. Also hate the voice actresses, Resistance, Servants like stfu Karens. I also like the Illumanti eye symbol and orange color.

Far as overall strategy goes Initiative being in the middle, not showing your hand till ready would be my strategy if it was a real scenario.
I already feel the world is run by corps, so it only logical to me the defense of the planet would be lead by a group like that.
I do wish they gave us multiple endings for factions, I'd rather kill them all instead of mind control as Initiative.

I support HF and Resistance during my campaigns but not sure if I would play as them. Hate the fact they are just auto hated by other factions off the bat, like let me do the actions that cause them to hate me.

The Academy, I don't hate them, the whole show these xeno we are on the same level as them is a noble endeavor, for all we know an even greater threat exist and we need this new xeno relationship to fight the greater evil someday.

The protectorate and servants, any difference? Basically the same faction with different colors, even the alien agents will raise public opinion for protectorate and they both hand over land to the alien invaders. Prior to that they both get handed free CP's by the aliens. I know this from having turned agents for both factions and have seen them both get Cp's from enthral missions.

I think I hate the servants and protectorate even more, because if this was a real scenario, groups like this would 100% exist. They would support the aliens claiming they bring peace, while nationalist right ring racists groups are against the xeno and peace. They would gain control of the media and popular social networks and enforce their will and ideology. Anything said against them will be labeled misinformation and cracked down on. Wait a sec have we been invaded? Eh who cares I have a shadow org to run.

[Damedius]

Originally posted by BrowneHawk:

I support HF and Resistance during my campaigns but not sure if I would play as them. Hate the fact they are just auto hated by other factions off the bat, like let me do the actions that cause them to hate me.

I think the way it works is that 4 factions start of in conflict with two other factions. Only the Initiative, the Academy and Project Exodus start Tolerant of everyone.

On top of that Humanity First starts off in conflict with the Xeno's and the Servants start off supportive of the Xeno's.

[lemurs2]

Resistance and Academy. I dislike authoritarian aliens but am not a fanatic, so resistance and academy because that is my hopeful self.

[SpiderKhan]

The initiative.

I'm not going to pretend there's some noble or intellectual reason, I just like being a power hungry bastard.

[流れ星]

Originally posted by BrowneHawk:

I do wish they gave us multiple endings for factions, I'd rather kill them all instead of mind control as Initiative.

Killing your own slaves for the sake of killing is madness. You are a foolish wastrel, unworthy of being entrusted with the powers of the Initiative. Go join the Resistance. They may have a use for your type.

Originally posted by BrowneHawk:

I support HF and Resistance during my campaigns but not sure if I would play as them. Hate the fact they are just auto hated by other factions off the bat, like let me do the actions that cause them to hate me.

Cooperation can be bought. All that carefully cultivated pretense of not liking money and power will collapse like a house of cards the moment you put money and power on the negotiation table.

[DaBa]

Humanity first, the only right and objectively good faction

[MAD-3R_Marauder]

Kill the Xenos!

[corisai]

Originally posted by 流れ星:

For me it's the Initiative. Why? Because they do exactly what I would do if a hive of programmable all-purpose drones showed up on my doorstep. Figure out how to hack them, take control and put them to use for the greater good. My greater good.

Do you know their ending or just like their initial approach?

Because they're @#$% are worse then Protectorate (and Servants are not that bad in the epilogue).

P.S. Humanity First of course. Because it will be us or them in the end - and that's all that matter.

[One Old Soldier]

Originally posted by 流れ星:

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Resistance for reasons similar to why you like the Initiative. The Resistance isn't wholly invested in exploiting every means of profit, this is true. However they clearly aren't above using the tech they can reverse engineer or design themselves to:

A) Improve quality of life on earth in a direction they see fit within their budget

B) Silently or at least indirectly shape the human political and economic spheres of influence in ways that help them get ready for a threat

C) Expand human influence and thereby new markets after the smoke clears for selling to an ever growing population by establishing colonies/logistics chains that allows humanity to reach beyond our home world (Itsfreerealestate.gif)

D) Develop a military industrial complex on a scale the Initiative can only dream of for future investors to sink their claims in on.

E) Not only look at alien tech and reverse-engineer it, but in many cases refine and improve upon it, showing our attackers we aren't to be screwed around with, they tried to get one over on us and failed, leave our solar system and stop bothering us or keep getting punched in the throat, that's their call.

[Nurgle]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Humanity first, the only right and objectively good faction :csd2smile:

Suffer not the Xeno.

[Hebrux]

Initiative, I love to exploit both the human factions and the alien factions to eventually be the ruler of both. Long story short, everyone is my enemy

[lemurs2]

Do you feel like Initiative is a detailed enough faction to be more than Resistance lite?