So we all know our factions right? let's do some quick review. FWC has seen potential timelines that may or may not harbor our future, with that in mind they say they have to get as many guns and people as possible before the coming war. New Monarchy wants to rebuild the city and bring back full authority with a single ruler (I forget if they said they wanted the speaker to be the ruler or not) and so they get into politics a lot and bash on the other factions for being lawless beasts (sometimes). Dead orbit thinks that everyone that's still hanging out on earth is crazy because they are trying to rebuild while surrounded by the darkness. So they want to build up a giant fleet and bail on our system before the darkness feels like poking in again. Now then, who is the best? the card: enemies>darkness>Ghost fragment: darkness 3 (I put in the full card for those of you who need context.) [spoiler] From the Journals of Toland, the Shattered I drive myself to the edge of madness trying to explain the truth. It's so simple. Elegant like a knife point. It explains - this is not hyperbole, this is the farthest thing from exaggeration - EVERYTHING. But you lay it out and they stare at you like you've just been exhaling dust. Maybe they're missing some underlying scaffold of truth. Maybe they are all propped on a bed of lies that must be burned away. Why does anything exist? No no no no no don't reach for that word. There's no 'reason'. That's teleology and teleology will stitch your eyelids shut. Why do we have atoms? Because atomic matter is more stable than the primordial broth. Atoms defeated the broth. That was the first war. There were two ways to be and one of them won. And everything that came next was made of atoms. Atoms made stars. Stars made galaxies. Worlds simmered down to rock and acid and in those smoking primal seas the first living molecule learned to copy itself. All of this happened by the one law, the blind law, which exists without mind or meaning. It's the simplest law but it has no worshippers here (out there, though, out there - !) HOW DO I EXPLAIN IT it's so simple WHY DON'T YOU SEE Imagine three great nations under three great queens. The first queen writes a great book of law and her rule is just. The second queen builds a high tower and her people climb it to see the stars. The third queen raises an army and conquers everything. The future belongs to one of these queens. Her rule is harshest and her people are unhappy. But she rules. This explains everything, understand? This is why the universe is the way it is, and not some other way. Existence is a game that everything plays, and some strategies are winners: the ability to exist, to shape existence, to remake it so that your descendants - molecules or stars or people or ideas - will flourish, and others will find no ground to grow. And as the universe ticks on towards the close, the great players will face each other. In the next round there will be three queens and all of them will have armies, and now it will be a battle of swords - until one discovers the cannon, or the plague, or the killing word. Everything is becoming more ruthless and in the end only the most ruthless will remain (LOOK UP AT THE SKY) and they will hunt the territories of the night and extinguish the first glint of competition before it can even understand what it faces or why it has transgressed. This is the shape of victory: to rule the universe so absolutely that nothing will ever exist except by your consent. This is the queen at the end of time, whose sovereignty is eternal because no other sovereign can defeat it. And there is no reason for it, no more than there was reason for the victory of the atom. It is simply the winning play. Of course, it might be that there was another country, with other queens, and in this country they sat down together and made one law and one tower and one army to guard their borders. This is the dream of small minds: a gentle place ringed in spears. But I do not think those spears will hold against the queen of the country of armies. And that is all that will matter in the end. [/spoiler] Will give us our answer. A quick segment: [quote]It's so simple. Elegant like a knife point. It explains - this is not hyperbole, this is the farthest thing from exaggeration - EVERYTHING..... ...Imagine three great nations under three great queens. The first queen writes a great book of law and her rule is just. The second queen builds a high tower and her people climb it to see the stars. The third queen raises an army and conquers everything.[/quote] Let's match some lines real quick. These queens happen to match our three factions. The first queen who writes laws and such is new monarchy. the second queen who would build a tower is dead orbit and the third queen who would build an army is the future war cult. So which one is the winner? [quote]Of course, it might be that there was another country, with other queens, and in this country they sat down together and made one law and one tower and one army to guard their borders. This is the dream of small minds: a gentle place ringed in spears. But I do not think those spears will hold against the queen of the country of armies. And that is all that will matter in the end. [/quote] The answer, FWC. The FWC is the queen of armies, and as Toland states, the queen who would build one of everything would lose against the queen of armies. The country of laws would lose because it has no way to escape, the country of the tower would lose because it is without and army. the queen of armies wins because though her people may be unhappy and her rule may be the harshest, they will survive, and in the end, that's all that matters. The more you read into the card you will see the whole card points towards the queen of armies being the eternal ruler. Seeing as how FWC is building nothing but an army for a coming war, they will survive. so laugh it up now new monarchy, your laws won't shield you from bullets. and reach for the stars all you want dead orbit but you can only run for so long. For all you people who are #FWC FTW, take this post with you to prove FWC is in fact FTW. Edit: Some people don't quite fully understand FWC, yes all the factions have small armies but FWC is [b]only[/b] weapons and people. Their sole purpose is build an army that's bigger than everyone else's. 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