Addai67 wrote...
Master Warder Z wrote...
In the Legion you rise upon how far you elevate yourself, in the lands of the bear you rise based upon how much coin you have or how much sway with the Senate you have.
... if you're a man.
All that civilization building is BS. Eddie's not a Roman. He's just a raider.
The NCR is not the only alternative. False dichotomy. But hell yes, I'd take a median level of corruption with some basic freedom and decency over that pack of rapist torturing nutjobs.
truely? Considering he built a society that is capable of waging war on the same level as the NCR and even managing to fight them to a standstill and even in some cases win against them, I would state that his model is at least effective at producing a military and supplying them.
That said we have no idea of the state of Arizonia, Colorado, Utah or New Mexico i have my own idea's and speculation but that aside we have no insight into things beyond the Mojave apart from the scant people from there telling us about what Caesar has built.
But just from those brief glimmers i can believe at least, a society was built.
But moving on to the meat of your point.
If your a man yes.
That generally is the point people stand behind when they oppose the Legion, Gender Equality is non existant for them.
But i must address these other points first.
Freedom? Decency? Freedom to pay their taxes, be conscripted to anex as much territory as the Senate can stomach, have your money stolen from you by Bandits when the Military is commited further into the Heartland, Leaving it undefended.
Yes you have plenty of freedom in the NCR.
The Freedom to be broken, starve and get shived by a Bandit and have your head decorate a gas station fort.
Decency though? Really? You view their society as decent? It does whatever it needs to do to aquire wealth, land and resources, it like any state is far from decent.
Now to the final point.
You do realize that in the Legion's capacity for Warriors, Slaves and Workers you will need a constant influx of women to maintain needed breeding equibrillium.
Not the nicest of practices but understandable when you are bringing order, stability and peace to that much territory.
The Legion is a society meant to survive and thrive in the post war element; It isn't meant for polite and civil notions of a dead world, Pre War notions of equality, Fairness and what have you weren't even applied heavily back before the bombs droppped, they have no place in the world afterwards.