#kazdel military commission

[alkalische]

WOAG! it's the kazdel military commission!

[markedbadguy]

One of the sickest designs in Arknights ngl and it's just a tall dude.

[shuttershocky]

If you read the Elite Operator profiles, it seems like even if the IS exclusive elites have incredible battle experience (Sharp has 25 years of experience and no mention of being a child soldier, making him 40+), none of them were actually a part of Babel and only joined once it was Rhodes Island, a clear difference from the other elites like Ace and Scout who were part of Babel.

Even Stormeye, a Kazdelian Sarkaz who lived through the civil war, felt that both Theresis and Theresa's factions were indistinguishable, and instead set up his own group focused on protecting people caught in the crossfire. He was so skilled that even if he didn't wield the ultra powerful originium arts that Theresis' and Theresa's groups wielded, Babel had already taken notice of him. He later joins Rhodes Island when he negotiates a deal for a local Kazdel village, acting as their protector.

I think it's neat how their profiles flesh out the Kazdel civil war as well as Babel itself. As Babel, they were essentially royalists, siding with the current monarch and opposing the Kazdel military commission. You get info like Touch initially refusing to join them because Babel was seen as a political entity, only joining later when it was Rhodes Island and after they've declared their mission to be in medicine.

It kind of makes me wonder if Theresa /had/ to die to accomplish her mission of creating Rhodes Island. As long as she was alive and the recognized King of the Sarkaz, her landship would always be a political entity. But passing away AND passing the crown to an adopted child that isn't even a Sarkaz and therefore would not be recognized, that would make her dream come true.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

With long running franchises you sometimes run into an issue I call the "Eternals Problem" after thoroughly boring and disappointing Marvel movie The Eternals. The Eternals are a group of very powerful beings, I think they're some kind of extraterrestrial in the movie, who live for a very long time. This presents a potentially huge problem for the narrative, as your movie has come out after the big final confrontation to prevent someone who doesn't know how population growth works from committing a mass killing, so often times stories with these characters will be set before the big event so as to leave a gap.

The Eternals is not. The snap has already happened by the movie, and there's basically no explanation for why they didn't get involved. It's really a sign of shitass writing but it more gives an example about the importance of temporal relevance when you're discussing power level. The more important and/or powerful a character is, the more pressing it is that they are not just "missing" from the timeline. Magic the Gathering also runs into this issue with Tovolar, a big werewolf pack leader on Innistrad who has been about for quite a long time but is entirely absent during the plane's big climatic sudden Emrakul event. It's shoddy writing.

I've been thinking about this because of the Abyssal Hunters. We aren't given, as far as I can remember, any definitive dates on when the three Seaborn events happen, but given that these three basically do not show up in the story and the Kazdel Military Commission and almost any reference to the Sarkaz in general do not appear in IS3, it's pretty safe to say they come after the entire main story (which also puts some temporal placement on Grani's event and the first Siesta event). This makes sense, the Abyssal Hunters are very powerful and it avoids the potential dumb arguments about whether Gladiia could 1v1 Sanguinarch or something.

I'm glad that the timeline isn't really set in stone. We do have some definite dates for when things happen (hello Vigna module???) but there's enough flexibility that our minds can fill in the gaps and have some temporal elasticity, and the Zelda fandom has kind of soured me on the topic of timelines in general b-

hold on what the fuck do you mean they released an official timeline

fuck. post cancelled i guess

[alkalische]

kazdel military commission doodles... thinking about how theresis was a mentor to ascalon and manfred...

[alkalische]

reminder that the KMC is HOMOPHOBIC 🏳️‍🌈🚫

[alkalische]

can't believe the military commission of kazdel is homophobic

[shuttershocky]

So I've finished episode 8 and I was just wondering what you recommend reading before going on to episode 9? I know Vigilo is probably a good idea, but I'm not sure if there is anything else that's suggested.

You can read Chapter 9 whenever but starting from Chapter 10 Theresis and his Kazdel Military Commission become the main focus, so it's important to have read a Walk in the Dust and Darknights Memoirs by then. Vigilo would be a good idea too, considering how much of that takes place in the Sarkaz Civil War era.