Let's talk Gaians

[Ayem]

It's a matter of simplification, sadly. People will get a very basic overview of a faction and play it as such. This means that every indy Xeno talks like JihadJoe's, or every Molly speaks with a mangled Irish brogue (and now there's even an [IRA] unofficial Molly faction, tasteless as that is) despite the Mollys not being Irish.

While I agree on the [IRA] part- the first time I saw it was shortly after reading about the recent IRA shootings, and it annoyed the hell out of me to see it in the game- leave my Mollies alone! They speak that way because I enjoy roleplaying them that way. The Mollies are miners, like the Molly Maguires who fought exploitative conditions as a secret militant overlap with the unions. They were in America as well as Ireland, but their origins were Irish. Does that make those in America American without any Irish heritage? Whatever the heritage is, that is who you are, as well as what you do. My Mollies speak that way because it's the way their families have spoken through the generations.

Maybe this has something more akin to to what the modern interpretation of what Gaia is?
Maybe it suggests that all planets are their own living organism, or the potential to be so from within.
Possibly something akin to a religon almost rather than pure science, despite it being clearly based in science.

Like Gaia Theory? There is a great deal of scientific evidence that this may be the case, so it would be an attractive argument for an intellectual Gaian (of course there's evidence against, too).
I saw Sir Crispin Tickell's lecture at the University of Leicester about the subject, who is a fine old gent and seemed quite enthused by the whole thing. Now if that isn't a great Bretonian name I don't know what is...

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