When Subbo was chatting with the guy who brought in Marauders - how long ago was this ... Subbo had the intention that marauders real enemy would be kitin - not all "other" homins, so marauders were disgruntled homins who rejected both karavan and kami and had their own community - in theory this would have been best built in Prime Roots. They were never supposed to be a set of nasty villains, rejects from society, or criminals, just an alternative in game for those who did not want to be the other 2 factions but who wanted to be a good alternative. Homins who lived by their wits and who had their own code of honour - but the role play was taken in a completely different direction on other servers.
Basically they did not want to take over by force (rape and pillage) but expected others to give up their false beliefs and join them
As they stand now I, personally, see them as against karavan and kami - but will support who they fancy in any war (possibly for dappers) and not as a bunch of evil homins - well, not too evil anyway. The concept of "the other" that Lacuna spoke about is a good one - concocted ideology by karavan and kami to make the marauders seem like nasty evil people, not to be trusted or liked and who should be killed on sight by all. Think this happens in real life - thus "they eat babies"
And just a point about ideology - all social systems concoct their own - to try to create cohesion - some of it based on lies (masses of it in some cases), so ethnic and cultural ideals are also ideological - but then I always did love Althusser and Lacan.
PS in theory, under our guild's Trytonist beliefs, no homin can die - being as we are alive because of nanotechnology - thus we are created and put on Silan so we can become the slaves of the Karavan - thus we do not have children and thus we are rezzed everytime we die - but Lore has many deaths - presume nanotechnology can be withdrawn ...
Basically they did not want to take over by force (rape and pillage) but expected others to give up their false beliefs and join them
As they stand now I, personally, see them as against karavan and kami - but will support who they fancy in any war (possibly for dappers) and not as a bunch of evil homins - well, not too evil anyway. The concept of "the other" that Lacuna spoke about is a good one - concocted ideology by karavan and kami to make the marauders seem like nasty evil people, not to be trusted or liked and who should be killed on sight by all. Think this happens in real life - thus "they eat babies"
And just a point about ideology - all social systems concoct their own - to try to create cohesion - some of it based on lies (masses of it in some cases), so ethnic and cultural ideals are also ideological - but then I always did love Althusser and Lacan.
PS in theory, under our guild's Trytonist beliefs, no homin can die - being as we are alive because of nanotechnology - thus we are created and put on Silan so we can become the slaves of the Karavan - thus we do not have children and thus we are rezzed everytime we die - but Lore has many deaths - presume nanotechnology can be withdrawn ...
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BinarabiThis idea of "I'm offended". Well I've got news for you. I'm offended by a lot of things too. Where do I send my list? Life is offensive. You know what I mean? Just get in touch with your outer adult. (Bill Hicks)