"It will not be easy. New battles await us among the stars, but we would rather fight on our terms than stay crouched in this coffin as the Darkness closes in. We possess the hope the Traveler gave us with its dying breath. We will not allow this hope to wither on a dead Earth. We will seed it amongst the stars."
—Allegiance recruitment speech

The quick reference point. I suppose interpretations could vary. The implication of Dead Orbit to me has always been that we were nearly wiped from existence because we were in one place, so if we are in many it is harder for use to all die out. Perhaps I will track more information if I remember to this evening.

While true, is it really surviving if the leftovers of humanity are raised by emo-goths with their dark clothes and nihilist poetry?

give us the glimmer lebowski

While true, is it really surviving if the leftovers of humanity are raised by emo-goths with their dark clothes and nihilist poetry?

Do you have any other valid definition of survival?

Dead Orbit wants to run.

Dead Orbit wants to decentralize to avoid a single point of failure for the species. Totally different from running away.

While true, is it really surviving if the leftovers of humanity are raised by emo-goths with their dark clothes and nihilist poetry?

Dead Orbit wants to run.

Dead Orbit wants to decentralize to avoid a single point of failure for the species. Totally different from running away.

According to the lore they want to abandon The City, The Traveler, and The Earth. There's even a possible future in a grimoire card that shows a giant Dead Orbit fleet fleeing, even leaving ships that break down behind. I've never seen anything that suggests they want to decentralize. If you have anything I'd legitimately be interested to see it :)

Dead Orbit wants to run.

Dead Orbit wants to decentralize to avoid a single point of failure for the species. Totally different from running away.

The Seven Tenets of the New Monarchy

1. To secure our walls against the enemy without.

and to keep the peons (you) within

2. To secure the rights and liberties of every upstanding citizen.

and to oppress those deemed to be not upstanding by the sovereign leader (see #7)

3. To sponsor the sciences of the City, and to salvage the ruins beyond, so that our Golden Age might be reborn.

to who's benefit?

4. To support the Guardian Orders by leading the City in technological innovation.

to who's benefit?

5. To support the natural harmony of the City, and to actively dissuade any group or individual that might disrupt that harmony.

harmony defined by sovereign leader (see #7)

6. To hold all individuals, compacts, and alliances to the highest standards of productivity and right behavior.

standards defined by sovereign leader (#7)

7. To, by vote of the Consensus, abolish the Consensus, and transfer ultimate power, in order that the rights and liberties of all citizens be secured, to a single sovereign of unimpeachable character.

vote to give away your vote, awesome.

1. To secure our walls against the enemy without.
2. To secure the rights and liberties of every upstanding citizen.
3. To sponsor the sciences of the City, and to salvage the ruins beyond, so that our Golden Age might be reborn.
4. To support the Guardian Orders by leading the City in technological innovation.
5. To support the natural harmony of the City, and to actively dissuade any group or individual that might disrupt that harmony.
6. To hold all individuals, compacts, and alliances to the highest standards of productivity and right behavior.
7. To, by vote of the Consensus, abolish the Consensus, and transfer ultimate power, in order that the rights and liberties of all citizens be secured, to a single sovereign of unimpeachable character.

The longer the list goes the more worrying it becomes. It sounds more and more like the manifesto of a facist party.

And we know of how you began in the Golden Age. With your RECORD CHASM logs detailing dangerous, life threatening experiments meant to forewarn us of some approaching evil. Anyone who has studied the FWC's history will know they cannot not, MUST NOT, be rallied to.

Those experiments were entirely staffed by volunteers, and suspended once we realized how dangerous they are! But they still gave us details necessary to prepare for the conflict the City will face!

1. To secure our walls against the enemy without.
2. To secure the rights and liberties of every upstanding citizen.
3. To sponsor the sciences of the City, and to salvage the ruins beyond, so that our Golden Age might be reborn.
4. To support the Guardian Orders by leading the City in technological innovation.
5. To support the natural harmony of the City, and to actively dissuade any group or individual that might disrupt that harmony.
6. To hold all individuals, compacts, and alliances to the highest standards of productivity and right behavior.
7. To, by vote of the Consensus, abolish the Consensus, and transfer ultimate power, in order that the rights and liberties of all citizens be secured, to a single sovereign of unimpeachable character.

And we know of how you began in the Golden Age. With your RECORD CHASM logs detailing dangerous, life threatening experiments meant to forewarn us of some approaching evil. Anyone who has studied the FWC's history will know they cannot not, MUST NOT, be rallied to.

Dead Orbit wants to run.
New Monarchy wants to appoint a dictator.
Only FWC stands for the ideals of Guardians: stand and fight united, in the conflict we know will come.

Do you want to back a faction that illegally builds a fleet in secret yet lets the Cabal kill tens of thousands in their attack on The Last City, that believes the Traveler is dead and that we have to escape our own solar system before its too late, whose representative routinely calls on female members to "...strip it, before anyone notices" in public no less?! No. Because we all know you are better than that!

Or would you like to pledge your support behind the only faction that really believes in The Last City. One that wants to see a strong, competent leader placed in charge. One that uses a good mix of red and white to proclaim a bold yet reasonable sense of style? Yep. New Monarchy is for you.

New Monarchy.

The Only Real Choice

Or just pledge to Dead Orbit since they're going to win.

Yeah, no question. My Warlock is going to be FWC, but my other two classes are going DE. I don't know why anyone would expect another faction to take it.

~m