Zakharov is the worst faction to live in. They have the most drones of any faction. The majority of their citizens a4e basically uneducated slaves or test subjects with no political power who live by the whims of an elite 0.001% of snooty aspergers university professors who never leave their labs to see what a shithole their society is.
Lal is also dogshit because he is trying to turn back the clock and remake Earth as it was just before society collapsed. It is a recurring theme for Lal that he is unable to let go of the past or correct past mistakes. (EG. Cloning his dead wife to groom the clone to be her replacement, trying to recreate the UN, etc.)
Pravin and Miriam are the only leaders that aren't evil so I'll go with Pravin because Miriam, while a good leader, is too religious for my liking. Ideally they would share planet with each other so the religious may live in Miriams realm while the irreligious can live in Pravins.
Miriam is a warmongering b***h, she's even more warmonger-y than Santiago. No good person demands shit right from the start and go to war if you turn her down.
Every other leader uses some dystopian tech on their people and brags about it, except for Lal, who uses it and then b***hes about it. Miriam is good because she fights against monsters.
she literally has to. between her combat bonus and her shitty tech, her only chance in frick is to zerg rush her nearest neighbor and try to snowball off his corpse.
what could the SMAC developers possibly have meant by this, btw
>You get to live free from atrocities beyond your comprehension >You have to also free other people from them
Gee what a dystopian nightmare. I have to use my god given laser rifle to shoot tyrants.
>Morgan probably has an awesome welfare system to cushion his consumer goods industries. >Deidre has forest nymphos and probably couldn’t order you around if you’re a gigachad. >Lal won’t frick you over personally but his incompetent government will. >Yang for the wagies. The Chinese Dwarf fortress enjoyers. >Zakharov is king of the community college. Great pussy, hit it and quit it. >Miriam makes us go to church. >Santiago is big into mommy-doming.
I could probably go for any of the vanilla(good version) leaders.
The manual description for free market goes something along the lines of "fleece the frick out of your citizens then dump them on the streets when you've turned out every last penny from them, then deploy military units to the streets to crack their heads with batons when they inevitably riot"
All of them are shit and the entire point of the game is that political shift away from nation states towards ideological puritanism will result in insanity. >Spartan Federation
Only great if you thought basic was the best part of your life. >University of Planet
Great if you thought college during Covid was the best part of your life. >Gaia's Stepdaughters
Insane eco-fascist cult. >Human Hive
Not even North Koreas would be happy here. >Peacekeepers
Imagine the DMV not just being part of the government, but being THE government. >Morgan Industries
Imagine Microsoft being the government. >Lord's Believers
While Miriam was often right to be skeptical, the society as a whole is just one giant southern megachurch.
I hated basic, and I hate having to spend 3-4 days on homeguard exercises every year, but I would rather take the Spartan Fed over any one but the Christians, and I am not christian either.
the real problem with Lal is his insane unresolved issues with his dead wife. the incompetent bureaucracy of his government is hardly a problem at all compared to the hardcore dystopias of all the other factions
Peacekeeper for probable QoL reasons. Spartans because shooting guns and martial arts is the national pastime and that sounds more fun than everybody else's options.
Lal would be my first choice, since I love bureaucracy. Deirdre would be the second best choice, since I am sure I would eventually get used to life in the commune. After that the choices get hard. Zakharov has university politics, which might well drive me to suicide. Morgan would turn me into a commodity. Santiago has too tight discipline for me to thrive under her. Miriam would be my last hope to save me from the Hive, although I don't think I could pretend to believe in her stupid shit indefinitely. Yang would really force me to consider if life in the Hive really is preferable to swift death.
>santiago
would probably end up getting shot by a trigger happy gun-nut >zakharov
Would end up in some extremely unethical science experiment that would probably kill me >deirdre
Would get every one of my holes filled by mindworms and required to worship and have sex with plants >Yang
Nerve stapled then recycled >Lal
Might be the best all around but I have a feeling a lot of covert espionage stuff goes on behind the 'free democracy' facade contrary to what Lal preaches. 'UN-Style Bureaucracy' sends alarm bells off in my head. >morgan
If I'm rich then I would have it made, otherwise I would be working in a borehole mine and probably get killed(or wish I would) >Miriam
Forced to go to bible lessons or face the inquisition
>santiago >would probably end up getting shot by a trigger happy gun-nut >HIGHLY DISCIPLINED FOLLOWERS
Anyone who picks anything other than Sparta is a drooling imbecile.
>Yang
+ Comfy underground bunker
+ State-mandated gf
+ High degree of security
- Soul-crushing and alienating collectivism >Santiago
+ Emphasizing survivalism is probably pretty smart in an early colony stage
+ High degree of security
+ She cute
- Everyone being armed tends to escalate conflicts
- But what else? Is there nothing more than sitting in your wagon fort with your guns out until the heat death of the universe? Ideological dead-end. >Zakharov
+ Nerd utopia
+ Best internet
- Ivory tower intellectualism rarely leads to good government
- Likely treated as second-class citizen if not scholastically proficient >Morgan
+ Industry, trade and accumulation of wealth is good, actually
- But we did a capitalism on Earth, didn't turn out so hot, why would it change?
- Planet is literally alive, and will try to kill you for polluting. >Deirdre
+ Free hippy state seems nice
+ Making friends with Planet is a solid idea
- Would get completely rolled in any sort of military conflict against any other faction, and those factions know that. Not likely to last very long. Low degree of security. >Miriam
+ I am honestly struggling to come up with one. High degree of societal trust?
+ High degree of security
- Another case of "it failed on Earth, but we're doing it again anyway"
- Hyperactive state propaganda organ >Lal
+ Genuine concern for the wellbeing of not only own citizens, but humanity overall
+ Only democratic faction
- It failed on Earth, but we're doing it again anyway
- Leader seems like a bit of a schizo, honestly
>>+ I am honestly struggling to come up with one. High degree of societal trust?
I would say they are the most humane faction as you can possibly be in the hostile. theyre not luddite as some would say, theyre just cautious, always wary of new tech and the implications of it towards human.
>- Would get completely rolled in any sort of military conflict against any other faction, and those factions know that. Not likely to last very long. Low degree of security.
5/7, decent bait
>- But what else? Is there nothing more than sitting in your wagon fort with your guns out until the heat death of the universe? Ideological dead-end.
Staying alive against other hypertech sci-fi military threats is really fricking difficult though, I think it's perfectly adequate ideologically to devote yourself to that.
> Childhood
Zakharov, because Dude I Fricking Love Science > Adolescence
Yang, because Dude Communism > Maturity
Santiago, because survival is the first order concern before any others and that's already hard enough
everyone lost to the gaians.
Her forces controlled mindworms before anyone else thought to do it, and it's suggested mind worm attacks against other cities are her covert forces, not wild worms.
Apart from Zhakarov saving humanity by dumping all human knowledge on the planetmind, Deirdre canonically won.
Maybe she would lose in an open war but she would never get caught in one.
"Canon"
While I did enjoy those blogposts. At the end of the day the game doesn't have a canon. Just lore tidbits that CAN be stitched in a certain way, doesn't mean they HAVE to be stitched in a certain way.
And from my experience of the game Myriam and Yang are always the scariest ones.
>Yang
+ Comfy underground bunker
+ State-mandated gf
+ High degree of security
- Soul-crushing and alienating collectivism >Santiago
+ Emphasizing survivalism is probably pretty smart in an early colony stage
+ High degree of security
+ She cute
- Everyone being armed tends to escalate conflicts
- But what else? Is there nothing more than sitting in your wagon fort with your guns out until the heat death of the universe? Ideological dead-end. >Zakharov
+ Nerd utopia
+ Best internet
- Ivory tower intellectualism rarely leads to good government
- Likely treated as second-class citizen if not scholastically proficient >Morgan
+ Industry, trade and accumulation of wealth is good, actually
- But we did a capitalism on Earth, didn't turn out so hot, why would it change?
- Planet is literally alive, and will try to kill you for polluting. >Deirdre
+ Free hippy state seems nice
+ Making friends with Planet is a solid idea
- Would get completely rolled in any sort of military conflict against any other faction, and those factions know that. Not likely to last very long. Low degree of security. >Miriam
+ I am honestly struggling to come up with one. High degree of societal trust?
+ High degree of security
- Another case of "it failed on Earth, but we're doing it again anyway"
- Hyperactive state propaganda organ >Lal
+ Genuine concern for the wellbeing of not only own citizens, but humanity overall
+ Only democratic faction
- It failed on Earth, but we're doing it again anyway
- Leader seems like a bit of a schizo, honestly
No, that take is legit bad. Let's see: >Yangs gonna give me a gf and not keep them for those better than drones. >Deirdre being weak when she free-ranges mind worms to zerg rush, all fungus is her roads from the start >Lal - only democratic
You know we can change the government. There's a lot more flexibility than you think.
It's pretty clear you've only played superficially, unlikely more than one faction.
Playing this game for my entire life and seeing the real world become more and more of a degenerate spiritually dead shit hole has given me massive respect for Miriam.
I used to hate her guts because she was always the aggressor. Now I see her faction would be the best to live in for most of the game as they would probably reject some of the crazier sci-fi things. I would rather praise god than the recycling tanks.
>Nobody else has sided with Morgan yet
Why? I'm not a lolbertarian but capitalism is the least scary thing on the list here. Morgan's system comes with inequality but his people clearly still generally live in comfort, and a capitalist system keeps the state competitive with its rivals.
Lal on the other hand is the most down to earth one but the utter inefficiency of his state puts you in real danger against the existential threat of the other factions.
>Game offers you as the default, vanilla choice an egalitarian democratic utopia of peace-loving people >Cut-throat, Captain Planet villain-tier capitalism is the least scary thing on the list here >In a game where you are set on a living planet that sends its fauna after you when you start to pollute, and your ultra-capitalist economy does that non-stop
Gee, I wonder why nobody picked Morgan, given he's a paid subscription version of Lal with extra negatives to the standards of living >b-but muh vast bureaucracy
Yeah, I guess an ultra-capitalistic and just as hedonistic society that has all sorts of problems and debuffs is a better choice.
But at least it's not "Miriam is the moral core of the game" shitposting, so here, grab a well-earned (You).
Why do people jerk off Miriam so much?
Her complains about technology are not based on humanitarian reasons (that's Lal's thing) but religious ones.
Let's not forget how she also chose mass suicide for her follewers Jim Jones style.
Morgan industries, obviously to try and get that bread. https://vocaroo.com/1iU95Bcsusxy
https://vocaroo.com/1euTsu9uIZ5b
https://vocaroo.com/11DUCFmjSL6h
https://vocaroo.com/102rQD33p5jK
Yang because he's the mission leader and presumably you choose your faction from the start.
>A security officer who for all her talk of martial loyalty has betrayed the mission leader >The token nonce who rebelled to get free flow of 'information' on the shipnet >An American larping as a Scot who calls herself a stepdaughter of Earth??? >Born without a personality >Moneybags thinks he knows better than the captain >Mad because people are watching 90s Simpsons episodes
But if later then I'd be bought off by Morgan. At least they might have an economy.
>t. commie
Also, he's not the expedition leader, his rank is the chief of security. Lal's office of UN Commissioner actually puts him as the next person in chain of authority after Garland's murder demise. Hence the double votes his faction gets since other leaders nominally acknowledge the UN authority and act in its framework (at least in regards to atrocities).
>Lal is just the ships surgeon.
Lal also holds a functional rank with the UN Space Authority, otherwise he'd be referred to just as "doctor". >Yang is the XO on the ship.
Incorrect. When 'Unity' activates emergency awakening of the hibernating "core" personnel due to an incident, it's Garland, Lal, Deirdre and Zakharov who are woke up. They have discretion to select the course of action in force-majeure, and order the awakening of additional personnel. They are also referred to as "commanders".
Yang wasn't awakened until after Santiago has revealed themselves, and Garland ordered to bring him up to assess the security risks and authorize the use of weapons to deal with the situation.
By definition Yang can't be a XO if he isn't in the loop of the first-response core personnel of the captain and commanders.
Santiago or Zakharov.
Why? I'd go with Miriam because I'm religious.
Because I'm a free man.
This. Santiago because of muh guns and muh liberties.
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Bro, your meds?
Zakharov is the worst faction to live in. They have the most drones of any faction. The majority of their citizens a4e basically uneducated slaves or test subjects with no political power who live by the whims of an elite 0.001% of snooty aspergers university professors who never leave their labs to see what a shithole their society is.
Same
Lal is the only one worried about providing a good life for all inhabitants
Lal is also dogshit because he is trying to turn back the clock and remake Earth as it was just before society collapsed. It is a recurring theme for Lal that he is unable to let go of the past or correct past mistakes. (EG. Cloning his dead wife to groom the clone to be her replacement, trying to recreate the UN, etc.)
Miriam
t. fedoratipper
Deirdre, so I can have sex with smelly hippy girl
>the most op faction
this guy plays on transcend
Pravin and Miriam are the only leaders that aren't evil so I'll go with Pravin because Miriam, while a good leader, is too religious for my liking. Ideally they would share planet with each other so the religious may live in Miriams realm while the irreligious can live in Pravins.
Miriam is a warmongering b***h, she's even more warmonger-y than Santiago. No good person demands shit right from the start and go to war if you turn her down.
Every other leader uses some dystopian tech on their people and brags about it, except for Lal, who uses it and then b***hes about it. Miriam is good because she fights against monsters.
she literally has to. between her combat bonus and her shitty tech, her only chance in frick is to zerg rush her nearest neighbor and try to snowball off his corpse.
what could the SMAC developers possibly have meant by this, btw
>You get to live free from atrocities beyond your comprehension
>You have to also free other people from them
Gee what a dystopian nightmare. I have to use my god given laser rifle to shoot tyrants.
Sounds like a faith issue.
Frick, wrong tipping image
What happened to the other SMAC thread? It was over a year old
All things must die eventually. /vst/ is a slow board but eventually everything gets bumped off.
It's still there?
>started February
HOW?
it started last week Anon...
It started 15 years ago, anon.
a-anon... I don't think we are in the same timeline...
When I was a kid, Zakharov. Nowadays, either Miriam or Pravin.
>Morgan probably has an awesome welfare system to cushion his consumer goods industries.
>Deidre has forest nymphos and probably couldn’t order you around if you’re a gigachad.
>Lal won’t frick you over personally but his incompetent government will.
>Yang for the wagies. The Chinese Dwarf fortress enjoyers.
>Zakharov is king of the community college. Great pussy, hit it and quit it.
>Miriam makes us go to church.
>Santiago is big into mommy-doming.
I could probably go for any of the vanilla(good version) leaders.
>hypercapitalist
>wellfare system
Yeah, sure...
The manual description for free market goes something along the lines of "fleece the frick out of your citizens then dump them on the streets when you've turned out every last penny from them, then deploy military units to the streets to crack their heads with batons when they inevitably riot"
All of them are shit and the entire point of the game is that political shift away from nation states towards ideological puritanism will result in insanity.
>Spartan Federation
Only great if you thought basic was the best part of your life.
>University of Planet
Great if you thought college during Covid was the best part of your life.
>Gaia's Stepdaughters
Insane eco-fascist cult.
>Human Hive
Not even North Koreas would be happy here.
>Peacekeepers
Imagine the DMV not just being part of the government, but being THE government.
>Morgan Industries
Imagine Microsoft being the government.
>Lord's Believers
While Miriam was often right to be skeptical, the society as a whole is just one giant southern megachurch.
>happy
Drone pls
I hated basic, and I hate having to spend 3-4 days on homeguard exercises every year, but I would rather take the Spartan Fed over any one but the Christians, and I am not christian either.
the real problem with Lal is his insane unresolved issues with his dead wife. the incompetent bureaucracy of his government is hardly a problem at all compared to the hardcore dystopias of all the other factions
What about the expansion's factions?
Peacekeeper for probable QoL reasons. Spartans because shooting guns and martial arts is the national pastime and that sounds more fun than everybody else's options.
Lal would be my first choice, since I love bureaucracy. Deirdre would be the second best choice, since I am sure I would eventually get used to life in the commune. After that the choices get hard. Zakharov has university politics, which might well drive me to suicide. Morgan would turn me into a commodity. Santiago has too tight discipline for me to thrive under her. Miriam would be my last hope to save me from the Hive, although I don't think I could pretend to believe in her stupid shit indefinitely. Yang would really force me to consider if life in the Hive really is preferable to swift death.
>santiago
would probably end up getting shot by a trigger happy gun-nut
>zakharov
Would end up in some extremely unethical science experiment that would probably kill me
>deirdre
Would get every one of my holes filled by mindworms and required to worship and have sex with plants
>Yang
Nerve stapled then recycled
>Lal
Might be the best all around but I have a feeling a lot of covert espionage stuff goes on behind the 'free democracy' facade contrary to what Lal preaches. 'UN-Style Bureaucracy' sends alarm bells off in my head.
>morgan
If I'm rich then I would have it made, otherwise I would be working in a borehole mine and probably get killed(or wish I would)
>Miriam
Forced to go to bible lessons or face the inquisition
So either Lal or Miriam, or Morgan if I was rich
>would probably end up getting shot by a trigger happy gun-nut
That's exactly what wouldn't happen living under Santiago.
>santiago
>would probably end up getting shot by a trigger happy gun-nut
>HIGHLY DISCIPLINED FOLLOWERS
Anyone who picks anything other than Sparta is a drooling imbecile.
Remember that they fricked up the original colony mission. They’re treacherous fricks.
Why are the only white people women
>SANTIAGO
>bronze skin
>white woman
are you implying non-israeli russians are capable of scientific achievement?
Chinsect Hive is the only one that can truly create a safe society in a foreign world
Reminder that Yang lobotomizes the populace so they're easier to control. What do you think will happen once he dies?
Yang wouldn't just let himself die. His great work is much too important for that.
>Yang
+ Comfy underground bunker
+ State-mandated gf
+ High degree of security
- Soul-crushing and alienating collectivism
>Santiago
+ Emphasizing survivalism is probably pretty smart in an early colony stage
+ High degree of security
+ She cute
- Everyone being armed tends to escalate conflicts
- But what else? Is there nothing more than sitting in your wagon fort with your guns out until the heat death of the universe? Ideological dead-end.
>Zakharov
+ Nerd utopia
+ Best internet
- Ivory tower intellectualism rarely leads to good government
- Likely treated as second-class citizen if not scholastically proficient
>Morgan
+ Industry, trade and accumulation of wealth is good, actually
- But we did a capitalism on Earth, didn't turn out so hot, why would it change?
- Planet is literally alive, and will try to kill you for polluting.
>Deirdre
+ Free hippy state seems nice
+ Making friends with Planet is a solid idea
- Would get completely rolled in any sort of military conflict against any other faction, and those factions know that. Not likely to last very long. Low degree of security.
>Miriam
+ I am honestly struggling to come up with one. High degree of societal trust?
+ High degree of security
- Another case of "it failed on Earth, but we're doing it again anyway"
- Hyperactive state propaganda organ
>Lal
+ Genuine concern for the wellbeing of not only own citizens, but humanity overall
+ Only democratic faction
- It failed on Earth, but we're doing it again anyway
- Leader seems like a bit of a schizo, honestly
>>+ I am honestly struggling to come up with one. High degree of societal trust?
I would say they are the most humane faction as you can possibly be in the hostile. theyre not luddite as some would say, theyre just cautious, always wary of new tech and the implications of it towards human.
>-4 Research
>They aren't luddite, just cautious
>-1 Efficiency
>HOLY SHIT WHAT SORT OF BUREAUCRATIC HELLHOLE UN IS!
Like a fricking clock.
In fact, it's -4 vs PLUS 1, not -
>- Would get completely rolled in any sort of military conflict against any other faction, and those factions know that. Not likely to last very long. Low degree of security.
5/7, decent bait
This. I've seen enough hentai to know Dierdre is the best. When I want to war I go police state and mofos get a taste of flower power.
>- But what else? Is there nothing more than sitting in your wagon fort with your guns out until the heat death of the universe? Ideological dead-end.
Staying alive against other hypertech sci-fi military threats is really fricking difficult though, I think it's perfectly adequate ideologically to devote yourself to that.
> Childhood
Zakharov, because Dude I Fricking Love Science
> Adolescence
Yang, because Dude Communism
> Maturity
Santiago, because survival is the first order concern before any others and that's already hard enough
Communists are morons through and through.
>Ivory tower intellectualism rarely leads to good government
Elaborate. IRL examples?
EU
M8 its a nice opinion, but you dont know the lore. I will reddit you for it
Warmongers, nerds, treehuggers, chinks, internationalists, lolberterians, fanatics.
everyone lost to the gaians.
Her forces controlled mindworms before anyone else thought to do it, and it's suggested mind worm attacks against other cities are her covert forces, not wild worms.
Apart from Zhakarov saving humanity by dumping all human knowledge on the planetmind, Deirdre canonically won.
Maybe she would lose in an open war but she would never get caught in one.
"Canon"
While I did enjoy those blogposts. At the end of the day the game doesn't have a canon. Just lore tidbits that CAN be stitched in a certain way, doesn't mean they HAVE to be stitched in a certain way.
And from my experience of the game Myriam and Yang are always the scariest ones.
you dont agree with it =/= bad takes
No, that take is legit bad. Let's see:
>Yangs gonna give me a gf and not keep them for those better than drones.
>Deirdre being weak when she free-ranges mind worms to zerg rush, all fungus is her roads from the start
>Lal - only democratic
You know we can change the government. There's a lot more flexibility than you think.
It's pretty clear you've only played superficially, unlikely more than one faction.
>Which faction would you join and why?
>Which of the political satire cartoon from the mid-90s would you join
None. Better dead than moronic
they're the good guys because they say they are, ok!?
>Psychotic Warlord
>Sociopathic Vivisector
>Eco-Terrorist Literal Race Traitor
>Ultra Commie
>Responsible Bureaucrat
>Randian Plutocrat
>Mega Karen
Gee I wonder
Yes, it’s finally time to make communism work by starting from empty table.
Gaians or Believers
why? big fan of pits and bush
I like robutts. Mankind will unite with metal and cybernetics for the conquest of spess
Playing this game for my entire life and seeing the real world become more and more of a degenerate spiritually dead shit hole has given me massive respect for Miriam.
I used to hate her guts because she was always the aggressor. Now I see her faction would be the best to live in for most of the game as they would probably reject some of the crazier sci-fi things. I would rather praise god than the recycling tanks.
You will be tipping fedora in 4-6 months. Then you will blame it on immigrants by next summer
Free Drones. All the perks of Lal, without all the bullshit
>b-but aussie commies
Don't care. It's the only faction that goes for Eudaimonia.
Morgan
>Nobody else has sided with Morgan yet
Why? I'm not a lolbertarian but capitalism is the least scary thing on the list here. Morgan's system comes with inequality but his people clearly still generally live in comfort, and a capitalist system keeps the state competitive with its rivals.
Lal on the other hand is the most down to earth one but the utter inefficiency of his state puts you in real danger against the existential threat of the other factions.
>Game offers you as the default, vanilla choice an egalitarian democratic utopia of peace-loving people
>Cut-throat, Captain Planet villain-tier capitalism is the least scary thing on the list here
>In a game where you are set on a living planet that sends its fauna after you when you start to pollute, and your ultra-capitalist economy does that non-stop
Gee, I wonder why nobody picked Morgan, given he's a paid subscription version of Lal with extra negatives to the standards of living
>b-but muh vast bureaucracy
Yeah, I guess an ultra-capitalistic and just as hedonistic society that has all sorts of problems and debuffs is a better choice.
But at least it's not "Miriam is the moral core of the game" shitposting, so here, grab a well-earned (You).
>he thinks the russian commie funded captain planet cartoon that villificaties of capitalism is a primal way to view good and evil
gaia
I want to be a hot wormtroony
Wait, so you're telling me that the terra invicta factions are just straight ripoffs of these? lol
I can also tell you that you must be at the very fricking least 18 to use this site.
>anon didn't play some 24 year old civ 2-era game
>"must be underage"
>underage digs himself deeper by acting like a child
Why do people jerk off Miriam so much?
Her complains about technology are not based on humanitarian reasons (that's Lal's thing) but religious ones.
Let's not forget how she also chose mass suicide for her follewers Jim Jones style.
>Let's not forget how she also chose mass suicide for her follewers Jim Jones style.
Is that in the novelization?
No, it comes from the psi gate building.
No, it comes from paeantosmac's bizarre fanfiction.
>Her complains about technology are not based on humanitarian reasons [...] but religious ones
what's the difference?
Morgan industries, obviously to try and get that bread.
https://vocaroo.com/1iU95Bcsusxy
https://vocaroo.com/1euTsu9uIZ5b
https://vocaroo.com/11DUCFmjSL6h
https://vocaroo.com/102rQD33p5jK
Yang because he's the mission leader and presumably you choose your faction from the start.
>A security officer who for all her talk of martial loyalty has betrayed the mission leader
>The token nonce who rebelled to get free flow of 'information' on the shipnet
>An American larping as a Scot who calls herself a stepdaughter of Earth???
>Born without a personality
>Moneybags thinks he knows better than the captain
>Mad because people are watching 90s Simpsons episodes
But if later then I'd be bought off by Morgan. At least they might have an economy.
>t. commie
Also, he's not the expedition leader, his rank is the chief of security. Lal's office of UN Commissioner actually puts him as the next person in chain of authority after Garland's murder demise. Hence the double votes his faction gets since other leaders nominally acknowledge the UN authority and act in its framework (at least in regards to atrocities).
Yang is the XO on the ship. Lal is just the ships surgeon.
The killer was either someone influenced by the stepdaughters or Santiago seeing her time to strike.
>Lal is just the ships surgeon.
Lal also holds a functional rank with the UN Space Authority, otherwise he'd be referred to just as "doctor".
>Yang is the XO on the ship.
Incorrect. When 'Unity' activates emergency awakening of the hibernating "core" personnel due to an incident, it's Garland, Lal, Deirdre and Zakharov who are woke up. They have discretion to select the course of action in force-majeure, and order the awakening of additional personnel. They are also referred to as "commanders".
Yang wasn't awakened until after Santiago has revealed themselves, and Garland ordered to bring him up to assess the security risks and authorize the use of weapons to deal with the situation.
By definition Yang can't be a XO if he isn't in the loop of the first-response core personnel of the captain and commanders.