Iwwish I could say it was just because of how bad guy coded they were but even post dark age they've kept them kinda terrible to their people (still better than the earlier stuff but damn daoshen is shitty).

Edit, and apparently some of the new novels have actually included stuff outside of what used to be Steiner territories to finally go into daoshens daughter (idk why they made her parents the way they did 🤮)

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wish I could say it was just because of how bad guy coded they were

Every BT faction is written as a hat. Liao is yellow peril space china, Kurita is yellow peril space feudal japan, davion is space british empire, Steiner is space prussians, Marik fights themselves more often than anyone else, Comstar is the space catholic church that is also a telephone company, the Word of Blake is post 9/11 depictions of space Islam, the Clans are varying degrees of horseshoe theory, and the fallen (first) Star League is the roman empire that everyone has a circle jerk over, and the Magistracy of Canopus is where the cat girls are.