Star Wars, specifically the universe created by the EU from 1991 to 1999. It was a wide open wild west of ideas. The details of the clone wars hadn't been established, Anakin Skywalker as the chosen one didn't exist, and there was just such a massive variety of content.
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He seems like he follows whatever gives him the best position. Projecting moderation to the west is a no-brainer, but he also has to contend with projecting the correct stance to the groups inside Syria and that is likely going to be a much less moderate one.
There is also the outside factors of Russia, Iran, and the US. There are a lot of considerations for all of them and I won't even pretend to predict how they will all act and react, but I do want acknowledge they can and likely will all drastically affect Syria.
I see your meaning, and this kind of confusion is exactly why Section 31 is so tricky to put in a story. It's a secret handshake club, which may well go to the highest levels, but it doesn't have official paperwork. There are likely varying levels of being in the know. Certainly many high ranking members of Starfleet know of S31, but opinions may vary in a sliding scale from "actively partaking in it" to "knowing it exists but choosing to look the other way" to "hearing it exists but assuming it's mostly overblown rumors".
Nobody is going to FOIA request the Section 31 files from Starfleet some day. That's the difference between it and "CIA but in Space" that modern writing treats it as.
Backing by high individuals is a still a conspiratorial entity.
What I don't like about the trailer is the implication Section 31 has official Starfleet oversight to reel it in from being too crazy. The whole idea is that it is a rogue entity with no oversight.
Likely the HTS, which is the main rebel group that lead the new offensive and which has already absorbed or eliminated many other groups in Syria.
They are a Sunni Islamist group, but they also are against Al-Queda. But only opposed to them since 2020. But HTS is still considered a terrorist organization by the US, UK, and Canada. But Timber Sycamore shows historically that the US may publicly designate a group as terrorists in Syria while style still supporting them privately. HTS is strongly opposed to Russia and has spilled a lot of blood to prove it.
So, in short, is this a good or bad event: I dunno.
For what it's worth, 'In The Pale Moonlight' ("I can live with it.") wasn't Section 31. That was pure Sisko. At that moment his methods and attitude aligned with what Section 31 would have done, but he was independent.
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Yeah Warhammer is pretty neat.
"31 is a Black Ops division."
Jeez, I really can't stand how the modern writers have made Section 31 an official arm of Starfleet. The entire point of the original idea was that it was a parasitic conspiracy hiding within the ranks, but not actually part of the ranks. Starfleet already has an intelligence agency for running covert operations, which is seemingly totally forgotten by modern writers.
The only time Section 31 has worked on screen after DS9 is when it appeared in Enterprise, because those writers understood how to handle an organization that existed as an under the table, in-the-know-only network.
Beyond that, I really, really, really can't stand how Section 31 looks like it is getting the glorifying treatment. It is not supposed to be a cool, awesome entity. Section 31 was a dark, broken, and ultimately misguided element. It was something to be overcome and dismantled, not celebrated.
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One of the very early sketches of my worldbuilding project, including some early iterations of main characters. On the left is a woman who was experimented on by a megacorp that resulted in her having some uncontrollable side effects (along with her small flying robot pal in the top right); in the middle in the former pilot turned amputee veteran turned independent adventurer; on the right is her partner who was a human soldier that became riddled with disease from exposure to chemicals and had his brain transplanted to a robotic shell.
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French 1717 Rampart Musket from the American Revolution - Forgotten Weapons
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Kill Team is an official skirmish game that serves as a gateway. There are also third parties like Onepagerules that provide free rules for both full size and skirmish combat.
Third party miniature companies like Wargames Atlantic, Spellcrow, and Kromlech provide both full models and bits for cheap. 3D printing opens up an entire new world of possibilities.
I'm incredibly curious if the pulled A-Life 2.0 code is still in the game somewhere. If modders implement it and get it populating in a sufficiently large radius it will really cement this game as a mainstay for a long time.