Closed schools, businesses, and churches. Opened borders. Stopped drilling for oil. Bidenomics Required jab or lost jobs. Men competing with women in women’s sports. Turning boys into girls, girls into boys, and taking children from their parents. Raiding the houses of, and then jailing and prosecuting political enemies. Calling Trump voters and Christians more dangerous extremists and terrorists than Hamas. Surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban. Funding Iran which funds Hamas which murders Jews. Teaching college kids to support Hamas raping, killing, and beheading Jews. It matters not who the figurehead atop the Democrat party is. These are Democrat Party policies, and whoever they elect next will drive them and more in the future. Do Not Forget.
I grew up playing the Final Fantasy games, and they were the bars I measured other games by for years. So when the sequel to Final Fantasy III came out as Final Fantasy VII on this new system called a Playstation, I bought a Playstation so I could play the new Final Fantasy. I would later buy a Playstation 2, and discovered many more good RPGs from Japan through that medium. But I bought mostly Nintendo consoles and the Xboxes, because my gaming became more social than single-player. But this weekend I wanted to play the Final Fantasy VII Remake that I have seen so much of lately, and so I bought a Playstation 4. Once again, 25 years later, I bought a console and a single game to play on it. Final Fantasy VII.
The Roderan know the universe is a cold and harsh mistress, but they love to boast about how good it has been to them over a drink or ten. Two or more will often compete with each other over who has had a better life, generally boasting to such levels that the onlookers howl with laughter at the ludicrous claims. And the spectators are expected to join in with well-placed corrections to the record to keep the competitors from getting too big a head. The contests usually end when even the participants can no longer keep straight faces, or when one of them actually starts to believe what is being said. That is a sure sign that they have drunk too much and can no longer see the universe for the cold and heartless mistress she is.
The Roderan are not generally considered a cheerful race. There are also not gifted with an overabundance of trust. Unless they trust that people they deal with will be untrustworthy. The universe is full of people who have betrayed them, and those who have not yet betrayed them. They do not generally make a big deal about that. Such things are a part of life. And death. They are always waiting for the next reversal. And in the good times between reversals, they eat, drink, and boast about how friendly the universe is to everyone. Especially to them. Arguments between Roderan over who the universe has been more friendly to are something of a national sport, and they excel at it.
The Roderan are a famously stoic and dour race. Cold both in appearance and temperament. Native to worlds far colder than Earth, their blood shares many properties with anti-freeze, and its effects saturate throughout their extremities. This translates into tolerances of temperatures far lower than most Earthborn humans can endure. They actually prefer air temperatures well below the freezing point of water, and become increasingly uncomfortable as that point is approached. It is perhaps no surprise that the Earthborn humans they prefer to deal with are those who live in cold climates. Luckily for humanity, there are many people who live where the air hurts our faces in winter. And some of us even claim to enjoy it.
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