Re: [Epic] Painting the little guys

From: Alan Brain <aebrain_at_...>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:12:33 -0700

Sauron1 wrote:

> In a story recently posted on this server from the Warmer 40000K mail There
> was a story about some Chaos space marines. ---->8----------
> They hate the Imperium because in loosing the revolt they lost any chance
> of a normal life. I don't believe the majority of SM who followed Horus new
> they were following Chaos until it was to late. And then,just like any
> soldier,once in combat their are few choices.The early SM Vs SM combat
> written in GW books talks about a freer humanity, new direction, a better
> human future following Horus not a far away puritanical beuracracy lead by
> the oppressive Emperor. But most revolutionaries start out thinking this
> way.

Exactly the point the story was trying to make. I must have done
something right
(for a change).

On a related note, IMHO even when they win, the Revolution is always
betrayed. Look at the late-unlamented-USSR. Look at the original US
Constitution ( Income Tax FORBIDDEN as a cornerstone of it ). Read the
correspondence between Adams and Jefferson up until their simultaneous
deaths 50 years after the Revolution to see how the USA was going in
strange directions the original Revolutionaries never intended or
imagined.

Makes me glad we're both living Federated Dominions :) The whackoes of
the Militia movement are right, they're kindred to the firebrands in
1776, not that many USAians would admit it. Fortunately, there were
moderates such as LtCol Washington* who "took charge". But see the
Whisky Rebellions in the 1780s, Aaron Burr etc.

* Who was given the title 'General' by the Traitors. PS The world is a
far better place for them having won, IMHO.
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