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On Tue, 7/19/16, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Xenophobic Terra?, was Re: Planetary Charters, was Re: [TML] Amount of self-government on member worlds
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2016, 2:26 PM

 On Tue,
 Jul 19, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Abu Dhabi <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 Well, I'm certainly no scholar in the lore
 area, but what I've gleaned from sourcebooks, the wiki
 and general osmosis is that the Rule of Man was plenty
 fascist/totalitarian/xenophobic/insert-bad-thing-here. And
 that was just after contact with the Ziru Sirka! And at
 least the Terran material in Mongoose stuff is that the
 Solomani Party is pretty much the stand-in for Nazis in the
 setting.
 How wrong am
 I?
 Wow,
 that was a jump... No where did I find that the Rule of Man
 was run by Space Nazis/Commies, If anything they got stuck
 propping up civilization as the previous power group
 collapsed ahead of their advance. All the Space
 Authoritarianism seems to start with the beginning of the
 3rd Imperium... 

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I agree...

In addition I believe that someone  else noted that when the solomani influence at court was broken & they were expelled (still not sure *exactly* how that actually transpired), it was only natural that they got 'mean' & when they were granted an autonomous region they got even worse, although, once again I'm not exactly sure how that progressed  either. After the SolRimWar though things got really ugly. Irredentists retreating to NewHome & trying to figure out how they, the "superior ones" lost. Ah-Hah! It must've been a "stab in the back"! Turn loose the SolSec & ferret out the "enemies of the people"! Yeah, that's the ticket!

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