3/2/2024 0 Comments Space 2 trailer![]() WIth their presentation in ES2, it looks more and more like that to me - in some ways subtle, in others not. To me they were always an image of what America could turn into, somewhat farther down the line, if it went wrong. ![]() more despotic.Ī lot of people here look at the UE as a sort of mix-mash of Russia and America, fused in an unholy authoritarian union. Plus the whole 'taxing them harder will make them work harder' faction affinity doesn't seem very utopian to me. They were always a highly stratified aristocracy based on economic control, never really spending much effort trying to give the appearance of benevolence to themselves or outsiders. But I don't think it fits with the representation of the UE from the previous game (for example, in ES1 a UE hero went rogue because the UE was holding onto slavery for ideological purposes, even though she had proven its economic inefficiency). Where you thought the UE was going with the whole 'authoritarian Federation' thing, that's an interesting take that I don't think is very common. And that's probably a clearer view of the political and social realities. The imagery is definitely Orwellian when you're looking at it from the bottom up. In my mind, the difference between them and the recruitment billboard image is that the two glossy, golden locations are where the nobility and the elite hang out, and the gloomy, polluted industrial cityscape is where most of the peons, ahem, *patriots* live. The last two of the five pre-video images look very UE to me, fitting with their style from both this game and ES1. But they've instead made it more of a, "this is the wrong way to make a civilization, and we've given you that civilization." If anyone has any information or thoughts on this you're very welcome to post them down below. I had the impression that they were going to be the human faction of which I've always dreamed it would become. ![]() Could this a new minor or major faction? Either way, I'm still very disappointed with the direction they took with the faction. I originally thought it was going to be United Empire since it must be a human faction, but they seem to be welcoming towards aliens. If anyone knows what the four showed before the United Empire trailer screenshot are from it would be much appreciated. Originally, my thought on the United Empire were to be a more authoritarian version of a utopia, a lot like Star Trek's Federation, as depicted from this piece of artwork.Īfter looking at some more artwork, I've also come across these which I originally thought were to be from the United Empireīut it turns out, the developers have decided to go with an Orwellian style dystopia.
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