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[frontlinetitties]

Yo, it's ya girl, Gideon.

So I kinda wanted to just bounce this off a bunch of people, you know? To get an impartial perspective. It's something I've been thinking about for a while, but I wanna hear other takes on this please and thanks.

Say there's this Empire of necromancers, right? The Empire stretches over a whole bunch of planets, nine home planets and then lots of others that act as necromancy fuel or some shit.

The Empire is ruled by this one guy, who is God. He was also just some dude at some point before the resurrection but now he's God. For reasons. Don't ask me about the reasons, I don't know the answer.

Like 10, 000 or so years ago there was some catastrophe that wiped out all life on all these planets, and then God came along - he's also a necromancer, by the way - and resurrected everyone.

So now he has this Empire where a bunch of people are necromancers and some are just regular folk with no aptitude for necromancy. And he's got like, this huge military force made up of necros and soldiers and battle ships and weapons and stuff. And this military force fights to protect God and the Empire from his enemies who wanna destroy him and all his people for like, no good reason at all. Jealousy, maybe.

This is a very condensed version, but yeah. What I wanna know is, what does this sound like to you? Totally reasonable behaviour or like...something else?

Anyway, come at me.

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[earthborn]

You said not to ask, but...

[It feels relevant to ask. It feels like "Why is he god?" is, in fact, the most relevant question a person could ask, in response to this.]

...But uh. No. Not a lot of that sounds reasonable, to me. I mean, I was with you right up until the god part. Everything starting with the part where your emperor insists he's a god is a little fucked up.

But then, I also tend to feel like most dead things ought to stay dead, and I know enough by now to recognize that that isn't really a popular opinion where you're from, Gideon.

[northerndragon]

It would help if I knew why people followed him.

But a man is not a god, not even if he has stepped out of the grave or his funeral fires. He is only a man with more power than most. What he does then matters.

Is he only fighting to protect his people? Does he put them above himself?

[Thank the gods Jon isn't taking this personally.]

[cryptsleeper]

(There will be a real response in a moment. To start with, there is only one question and the dhampir trusts his tone will be conveyed by the length of their friendship alone.)

Why is your home sphere Like This?

[thedevilwhorose]

You wouldn't happen to know if this so-called God is a small mousy looking fella?

But sorry, wait, are you trying to figure out if this 'God' is the reasonable one or those fighting him?

Also did anyone ever stop to consider if he was the one that caused the initial catastrophe?

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[ushiri]

If he's your god, I don't think it matters whether it sounds like reasonable behavior or not to any of us. Your faith in him should give you the answer.

Or your lack of it, if that's the case.

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[wiedzminka]

What's got you worried about empires and armies on your sphere all of a sudden?