El Gecko Lives! So, Hc Svnt Dracones had its first expansion officially launched today. Is everyone tired of it or does anyone want to hear what pages and 14 dollars gets you? It's got more options! More lore! Apparently also robot dogs and squidcats!
So, let's see what we've got waiting for us! But, if this setting were only about being a fox person in a space suit, this book would be dramatically shorter. Are such biases gone forever? Of course not. Just that. Devoid of the centuries of cultural momentum that currently governs our thinking and thrust into a brand new world with its own unique challenges.
Acts and laws would come and go attempting to govern, censor or control internet based association. Most would be blocked or voted down by citizens more attached to their internet relationships than to their geographical ones, which only furthered the divide.
When conflicts between nations arose, the situation grew dramatically worse. As the world became more and more integrated, the chasm between the old regime and the people still trapped within it became more than many could stand. Civil unrest was on its way toward civil war when a new opportunity released the steam, if only to throw fuel on the fire later. In the free market, businesses could turn and twist and adapt, market themselves for different audiences, sympathize with different needs, and operate without the same tethers that bound so many private citizens.
Theirs was the power of money, without which government could not sustain itself. Money bought leniency within the rule, and the simple greed of capitalism portrayed a sort of bizarre purity next to the holier-thanthou declarations of principles made by most governing bodies before they charged into some act of violence, conquest or general dishonesty toward their own citizens or others.
