This is mostly just to help kill time.

Using this http://www.flickr.com/photos/47857688@N08/5693413713/sizes/l/in/photostream/ and the Security cutscene for the Aquarium mission, which side do you think is right?

Is Chen telling the truth, the "hostage" was really just a founder defector, or is the Captain right about the Resistance taking hostages?

Well I'm voting Resistance because that's who I'm siding with. I guess we really won't know who's right or wrong until we play the game. :shrug:

I think the Resistance might have taken a possible founder defector hostage. Or perhaps it's even more complicated.

I think neither side is the bad guy here, I think it is a misunderstanding.

Maybe the Resistance think it is a founder defector, and the Security think it is a hostage. What it really is, we'll have to see for ourselves.

Question is why the heck would they take a hostage in the first place? :l

Of course there is gonna be some big [censored] going down when they do things like that

''First demonstrations, then riots, and now kidnapping, what's next?!'' as the guy says in the cutscene, through that perspective it feels like the Resistance started all this

There both right. :spotted owl:

To get more water rations?

Sounds.. Perfectly sensible, but I believe there is more to that, Revo :l

I think they wanted to beat information out of him according to some page in the Strategy Guide, and they have to hold out til the Resistance boat gets there so THEY can get him out

.. then the Security comes, and if they succeed they get him back with their boat

OR MAYBE IT'S THE MUMMY.

[censored] [censored] YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT

OMG Nazi zombies!!!!! :shocking:

Why cant everyone just get along happily on the Ark? But Nooooooo, the rich continue to suppress we the Resistance, they ration our food and medical supplies.
Viva La Resistance!! :flamethrower:

I think it has something to do with OBL being dropped in the sea, that and conspiracy and turtles.

No but in all seriousness, I think the security is right, why would someone defect to the Resistance?

You should of gotten yourself an education. Maybe you wouldn't be so poor if you did.

Both are right and wrong in their own way. That's the way SD planned it to be.

Bear's post makes NO sense whatsoever in any context. Sorry. But even in-charactor isn't that the whole point of the resistance? He can't get an education, because he's doing slave labor to keep the ark running, for a few water rations.

However, I'm a security fan, and I believe they have it right. The fact that they took hostages, as opposed to you know... DIPLOMATIC solutions speaks volumes.

Unless they have and they where beaten down by the regime....

Oh Brink, how I love your grey and grey approach to morality. :hugs:

But yeah, we don't have enough information to really form a viable opinion. Except for those who already chose sides.

I'll just leave this quote here.

"I don't understand the general human tendency to prefer extremes to the truth that is usually somewhere in the middle."
- Dr. Douglas Gentile

One thing: If the guy was really a defector, why would he willingly follow the Security guys as they escort him to "safety?" And why would the Security squad then be told that they have to go rescue a hostage? Wouldn't it make more sense, if the guy really was a defector, for the Security to just kill him before he can talk?

I look forward to discovering the truth myself.

My signature argues against this point. There's events where parties are past diplomacy, and fighting is the only right thing to do.

I was going to make some smart, and witty comment involving not letting it reach that point. Then I remembered a certain revolution taking place in 1776...

:)

I'm right and your wrong, now shoot the hostages :gun: and let's get the hell out of here. :bolt:

Im gonna have to agree with that :bolt:

It seems like both sides have a different interpretation based on the lack of critical information being released by both Resistance and Security Leaders.

Ah, but you'd be surprised how compliant someone can be when looking down the wrong end of a rifle... now ideally, counter-intelligence would want him alive to find out what he's already told the terrorists, oops, I mean the resistance, hehehe.

I love the whole fog of war - each side is choosing to believe what is most convenient for their consciences, not to mention that the footsoldiers simply obey orders and are forced to trust their superiors.