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OF COURSE it IS different. It\'s the Earth as portrayed in the \'\'Tom Clancy\'\' novels. Tom. Clancy. Thriller novels with ham-fisted political maneuverings as an excuse for technology porn. With all assorted narrative traps that implies. Also, Antallos is pretty much a shithole even in canon. The problem is that it\'s the first link in the Jump chain leading to the ISOT region with Earth at the center, and thus it needs to be secure. Unfortunately, as far as the story is concerned, GDI controls ONE city. One. Port Krin. The other city-states try not to rock the boat, since Port Krin is also the main planetary starport, but inside their domains slavery and assorted badness still exist. For all that CEarth says it wants to do better, it hides how much they\'re scared near out of their wits by the incoming and inevitable wars, and until they actually do something about all those other city-states and finally bring the whole planet under control, it\'s nothing but hypocrisy. However, it is also an aggressive move, the first true \'holier-than-thou\' line that they\'ve yet to cross. The counter-invasion of Antallos and Port Krin has the excuse that it\'s for revenge. Change has yet to happen.

One world against thousands. They have to deal with trying to do too much would gut their economy, while at the same time, not doing enough would risk being swallowed by the Inner Sphere powers or steamrolled by the Clans.

Furthermore, despite that CEarth does still have its trouble spots (Africa and South-East Asia for example), in Clancy canon post-Bear and the Dragon Russia is now part of NATO and China is openly trying to embrace capitalism. Yes, seriously. Debt of Honor, Japan \'\'declares war on the USA and tries to sabotage the global stock market\'\'. Things like that. It\'s all but a fairy-tale world. Part of the \'charm\' and the challenge as it were, is in breaking down illusions on both sides of the fence.

OF COURSE it IS different. It\'s the Earth as portrayed in the \'\'Tom Clancy\'\' novels. Tom. Clancy. Thriller novels with ham-fisted political maneuverings as an excuse for technology porn. With all assorted narrative traps that implies. Also, Antallos is pretty much a shithole even in canon. The problem is that it\'s the first link in the Jump chain leading to the ISOT region with Earth at the center, and thus it needs to be secure. Unfortunately, as far as the story is concerned, GDI controls ONE city. One. Port Krin. The other city-states try not to rock the boat, since Port Krin is also the main planetary starport, but inside their domains slavery and assorted badness still exist. For all that CEarth says it wants to do better, it hides how much they\'re scared near out of their wits by the incoming and inevitable wars, and until they actually do something about all those other city-states and finally bring the whole planet under control, it\'s nothing but hypocrisy. However, it is also an aggressive move, the first true \'holier-than-thou\' line that they\'ve yet to cross. The counter-invasion of Antallos and Port Krin has the excuse that it\'s for revenge. Change has yet to happen.

One world against thousands. They have to deal with trying to do too much would gut their economy, while at the same time, not doing enough would risk being swallowed by the Inner Sphere powers or steamrolled by the Clans.

Furthermore, despite that CEarth does still have its trouble spots (Africa and South-East Asia for example), in Clancy canon post-Bear and the Dragon Russia is now part of NATO and China is openly trying to embrace capitalism. Yes, seriously. Debt of Honor, Japan \'\'declares war on the USA and tries to sabotage the global stock market\'\'. Things like that. It\'s all but a fairy-tale world. Part of the \'charm\' and the challenge as it were, is in breaking down illusions on both sides of the fence.

OF COURSE it IS different. It\'s the Earth as portrayed in the \'\'Tom Clancy\'\' novels. Tom. Clancy. Thriller novels with ham-fisted political maneuverings as an excuse for technology porn. With all assorted narrative traps that implies. Also, Antallos is pretty much a shithole even in canon. The problem is that it\'s the first link in the Jump chain leading to the ISOT region with Earth at the center, and thus it needs to be secure. Unfortunately, as far as the story is concerned, GDI controls ONE city. One. Port Krin. The other city-states try not to rock the boat, since Port Krin is also the main planetary starport, but inside their domains slavery and assorted badness still exist. For all that CEarth says it wants to do better, it hides how much they\'re scared near out of their wits by the incoming and inevitable wars, and until they actually do something about all those other city-states and finally bring the whole planet under control, it\'s nothing but hypocrisy. However, it is also an aggressive move, the first true \'holier-than-thou\' line that they\'ve yet to cross. The counter-invasion of Antallos and Port Krin has the excuse that it\'s for revenge. Change has yet to happen.

One world against thousands. They have to deal with trying to do too much would gut their economy, while at the same time, not doing enough would risk being swallowed by the Inner Sphere powers or steamrolled by the Clans.

Furthermore, despite that CEarth does still have its trouble spots (Africa and South-East Asia for example), in Clancy canon post-Bear and the Dragon Russia is now part of NATO and China is openly trying to embrace capitalism. Yes, seriously. Debt of Honor, Japan \'\'declares war on the USA and tries to sabotage the global stock market\'\'. Things like that. It\'s all but a fairy-tale world. Part of the \'charm\' and the challenge as it were, is in breaking down illusions on both sides of the fence.