CraterLabs Posted December 14 Posted December 14 So, the Praetorians enemy group is one that makes sense in very, very broad terms, but starts falling apart when you look at the specifics. On the surface it usually looks like it's intended to mean one of two things, narratively: The critter in question is allied with, or associated with, the Praetorian Empire's government or Loyalists or leaders The critter in question comes from the dimension of Praetoria And these are handy, but they get applied inconsistently. Case in point, the solo mission at the end of Praetor Sinclair's story arc in Imperial City gives us a good look at some Phoenixes who are members of Project Phoenix and working for Belladonna Vitrano (herself a former member.) While Belladonna is given her current faction (Resistance) as she is in other missions, the Phoenixes show up as Praetorians. Other Project Phoenix members in Praetor Sinclair's missions (such as Gorgon) are treated similarly. This further confuses things with the Chimera Ninjas group (who don't really show up much outside of AE missions, of course, but the connection between them is pretty clear). The oddity is not that Phoenixes don't belong to the Praetorians group so much as it is that there are other groups that they might easily slot into, and other groups who might easily fit into the Praetorians group (such as, say, the IDF, which is made up of several other groups of Praetorians working together) don't get put in the Praetorians group, instead they get their own group. (And, interestingly, the Project Phoenix members don't get listed with the Praetorians or with the Chimera Ninjas in the homecoming wiki, they get grouped with the Resistance.) This isn't a high priority issue, of course, but it feels like there's room for some more clarity. They definitely *do* have some ties to the Praetorians in the same way that the IDF does, though it feels like they could also get slotted into the Resistance, or Chimera Ninjas, or even their own Project Phoenix group without a lot of difficulty. Dunno if this would be more trouble than it's worth to code in something, but it felt worth mentioning, heh.
Rudra Posted December 14 Posted December 14 (edited) The Praetorians enemy group is a broad catch all for anyone and anything that is from Praetoria. Other groups are more specific, such as Resistance, IDF, and Seers. (Edit: So the Phoenix in your example, like the demons in that one mission that are flagged as Praetorians, aren't really part of any specific group. They aren't yet Resistance, they are trying to gain their freedom from Chimera. They aren't Chimera's faction, because they broke away trying to find their freedom. They don't really fall into any of the more defined groups, so they are assigned as Praetorians.) Edited December 14 by Rudra
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