Didn't you guys the history? Serco's government is pretty much propped up by propaganda. The only difference really between Serco and nazi germany is that the Serc's aren't quite as genocidal.

Do you really want to hear history from the nazi's side?

Ooh... I could use that poem.

entropyjones, did YOU read the history? I'm not saying this in my Serco persona now. This is a KNOWN FACT ALL AROUND THE WORLD. There is no such thing as a completely politically unbiased accounting of history. EVERYTHING has a political bias based on whoever wrote the history book. In American history books, only recently have the fact that during World War II, the U.S. Government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans into "Internment Camps" because it was not only suppressed by the government, but because that action was so embarrassing to the American people. Even the term, "Internment Camp" has a political bias - the Japanese American community calls them "Concentration Camps," but most mainstream history books don't because "Concentration Camps" are terms for the Nazi death camps and boy, we don't like the idea that the American Government did anything like those Nazis. And there are thousands of things like that all throughout history. In America and in China, history books talk about the "Rape of Nanking" where the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Manchuria (and raped and killed lots of women and children - I don't know the number). In Japan, that event is minimized because it was so embarrassing to the Japanese Government. Judge how you want, but that's just the way things are.

We have no reason to believe that the Itani accounting of Serco history is anything different. If they're like any historian today, they're going to play themselves as the victims, the underdog in this conflict, and they color events so things are pro-Itani.

This has the effect on gameplay that many new players think that the Itani accounting of the history is 100% true and unbiased, and the Serco are nothing but savage killers, resulting in a far higher number of Itani and Itani-aligned UIT players than Serco. What I intend to do is to present a Serco side to the history of Vendetta, and let players choose between the two histories. I'm sure that Serco did a bunch of bad things, but I'll bet that the good things that they did were not recorded, or were "inaccurately" recorded by the Itani because they didn't match the Itani political view, and vice versa.

Ill write more verses in tune with the Official Canon when I get around to it :)

Actually, I think it would fit our race very well if the Serco version was poetic as opposed to prose.

"Good words shall gain you honor in the market-place, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men."
Lao Tzu

Yeah, Entropy, I have to disagree with you, Good and Evil do not lie on different ends of the universe, each spreads quite efficiently

Not wanting to steal ctishman and spellcast's thunder, people have been asking me in game when I'm going to get around to writing the Serco version of history. I'm nearing the end of my school quarter, so I can't start actually writing for another week. I will write an account along the lines of the Incarnate's Itani account, although it will focus on the Serco and some UIT, and very occasionally the Itani. It will not contradict ctishman and spellcast's parables, but rather I'll try to draw from them as much as I can, and apply a more nationwide view to it, rather than just isolated incidents. I will also attempt to explain certain... loopholes... in the Itani backstory. For instance, why do the Serco have only one system in the backstory when in the game, they obviously have more? Things of that nature. So again, ctishman and spellcast, I applaud your writing efforts and hope to add to what will hopefully be a rich and colorful Serco history.

Hm... I just read what I wrote and I seem to have developed a choppy writing style. I'll have to be careful when I start writing.

thats good, because while my first effort wasnt too bad, I'm not overly fond of the second two, and will probably be re-editing them sooninsh.

I do see the serco perspective on the UIT leaving as being more of a "They left, abandoning their chance at a place in our society and taking from the planet some skills we could have used to make everyones life better, but no hard feelings."
(we have to be a little arrogant after all :) )

I was thinking about the UIT issue. While that would be the most obvious way of explaining their leaving the Serco, it fails to take into account several things. Most importantly, it's the Serco rhetoric that I started spouting oh, around the end of the last beta, and has continued strong with other Serco players after release. The idea that the UIT and Itani and their space is actually part of Serco, just the people of the two "rogue states" need to be reintegrated. I feel my original explanation was too simple and utterly adequate to explain the situation (that the Serco have come believe all space to be theirs). After thinking about it, I came across a solution that not only satisfies the Itani's incomplete account, but also explains the Serco rhetoric, as well as why the UIT are occasionally hostile towards the Serco.

Spellcast, talk to me in the game and I'll share my ideas with you.

crippledpidgeon, i await your story with excitment! i wish you all the luck with overcoming your "choppy" writing style and do hope ideas come to you freely throughout the project!

see you in game.

Sebastian, Soldier of Serco