I was honestly only kidding around when I brought up the #SecondSerpentsCrusade in relation to #NASAPUNK2330
Leave it to #Bethesda to deliver in spades for the #ShatteredSpace main quest end-run. I’m STILL trying to emotionally process the (quite frankly excessive) degree of wanton and wholly unnecessary bloodshed.
Headcanon Aside:
You would think, canonically speaking, that choosing to go along with Anasko Va’ruun in restarting the Serpent’s Crusade would implicitly vindicate the Zealots and have them rally under your banner with their old noble house restored. Instead, Anasko decides to sacrifice you like so much groat, while the Zealots simply covet the power of the Vortex Gate and rabidly seek to claim it for themselves.
None of that is consistent with the psychology or sociology of an isolationist theocratic society. And yet, up until the end-run the narrative was so on-point that it made me sick to my stomach to play along as a dutiful convert to the Va’ruun faith. I’m not kidding. Not exaggerating for dramatic effect. I’m being absolutely literal. Every single “Serpent’s Embrace” dialogue option is physically, viscerally repulsive.
Let’s face it, the similarities between early Mormonism and House Va’ruun are very unlikely to be coincidental. The surface colouring of Iranian Shia Islam is more incidental, once you scratch beneath the surface and look at the pattern of the narrative as a whole. There are allusions to the real, historical crusades, but the story progresses play-by-play with Brigham Young’s “Deseret Empire”, the Mormon Doctrine of the United Order, and their own crusades against the United States spanning the whole Manifest Destiny period (colonization, pioneer days, conquest of the wild west, the Mexican War, the Civil War, subjugation and genocide of the Native American peoples, so on and so forth)
#Starfield #StarfieldGame #StarfieldCreations #SteamGaming #HouseVaruunFaction #Varuunkai #Gaming #SciFi #Spoilers #SpoilerAlert
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Lupton
