He has explosives strapped to him. Maybe he has hostages (it says in the game that he's robbing and killing people who enter the bridge). Maybe he knows megid. The real problem is that Rolf hand delivers Teim to her father.
It's a lot more useful for usurpers to brainwash millions and billions of people into submission than to decimate most of the population, their buildings and technology. Otherwise they'd be ruling over a wasteland.
Tyrants think their own rules are the best rules and would rather live by them than submit.
If the Terrans are corrupted by DF, I don't think one can assume that they're "sane enough" to learn from their mistakes.
The goal of the Terrans was to take over Algol, which they did. They only started destroying the planets once there was a strong enough threat to their rule. The script is a bit awkward, but the Terrans basically say at the end, "If we can't have Algol, then NO ONE will have Algol." Seems legit to me.
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You're probably not going to want to hear this, but I think a modern adaption of PSII should downplay the existence of magic, if not scrap it completely. The scenario you describe is complicated. I'm not saying it wouldn't make an interesting story, it could very well be a page-turner of a genre novel. However, as the plot of a video game, I'm not sure it works. Even modern games are best when they have simple, linear narratives, like the kind you learn about in 4th grade: Exposition (setting, characters), problem, action, climax, resolution. Games can still have broader themes (I'm glad Parma Ham brought that up), but I don't think those broader themes work well when they become a bunch of micro-plots during gameplay.
Repression of an extremely traumatic event. Rolf might have been unconscious through the entire event, and Lutz just dropped Rolf off at the orphanage and warped back to Hogwarts.
Shure might have originally been a safe, secure location but was breached by biomonsters who quickly overran the entire building.
I figure the Commander is doing a *lot* of behind the scenes work to keep the military away from Rolf when he's in town. He's probably slipping him some cash under the table. What I don't get is why Rolf gets meseta for busting up government property (the robots). He sells them for scrap?
Also, has Shir ever been caught? Perhaps she doesn't have a record.
Who, besides Lutz, knew Rolf and his team saved Algol? At some point, Rolf stopped communicating with the Commander, so maybe word just didn't get out. The remaining citizens of Algol might have had a complicated view of Rolf's deeds. In the time Rolf was saving Algol, he was branded a terrorist and traitor, Palma went kaboom, Motavia lost most of its climate-controlling systems, and most of Algol's technology was lost. Some years later, a piece of Palma slams into Motavia and kills off even more of the population. Maybe enough people continued to believe they were better off under the Mother Brain network. Maybe people just didn't know about Rolf's final sacrifice.
It was probably deemed obsolete with the creation of the Lutz Ball 2000. Also, there may not have been enough power to keep the machine online.
Wait, what? I don't remember Chaz being descended from the Landale clan.
They were going to continue monitoring Motavia's weather systems until the systems failed or the people no longer needed them. A noble thing to do. Plus, Wren and Demi seemed to have enough humanity that perhaps they didn't want to shut down.
Oooh! Oooh! I can do that too! Story inconsistencies should absolutely be hunted down!
Let's see...
Why is Rolf able to throw fireballs with his hand? Better yet: why does killing over-sized insects enable Rolf to use even bigger fireballs?
Right? Right??
Nah, just kidding. Here are the real questions.
Why are there only about 50 civilians on the entire planet of Mota?
Why is Mota consistently warmer than Palm if it's farther from Algo?
How is it possible for three M class planets to exist in the same star system, all providing near optimum life conditions, gravity and breathable atmospheres?
WHY DON'T ANY OF THE CHARACTERS HAVE BIOLOGICAL NEEDS? ARE THERE NO TOILETS ON ALGO?
It's a video game, people. Play it, enjoy it and stop losing sleep over Rudo's shoe size.
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