Triple Alliance
First time out of the vault
Ropekid is Joshua Sawyer. Let's see what he has to say.
"It seems like not many people advocate Caesar's Legion without also openly aligning themselves with fascist / hard right beliefs personally, but a fair number of people who may consider themselves *~ liberal ~* will argue sincerely that the RDC is the best thing to come to the Deadfire Archipelago.
With Caesar's Legion, it's hard to avoid the obvious associations with real, historical dictatorships and later fascism in the 20th century via the adoption of Roman regalia. The Age of Sail and subsequent colonialism is less well-documented and the reasoning for cultural imperalism was always drawn in contrast with the perceived barbarism of the colonized cultures.
It becomes much easier for people to tolerate cultural imperialism and the subsequent erasure of native cultures when they find the practices of native cultures abhorrent."
And yet another failing of the New Vegas writers. Want to make it more morally nuanced? Give the tribes that the Legion conquered cultural practices that modern day audiences would find objectionable. Something like the human sacrifice of Mesoamerica clashing with the Conquistadores comes to mind.
