Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20160524151005/@comment-5496489-20161210172316

@Charles Okay first off I'm not trying to justify anything with these reasons and most of this was unintentional on my part. Its merely a consequence of my writing style which gives me very little control over what my characters and factions do. I have a point A, a point B, and few points in-between I want to get to, but ultimately I let the characters and events take me to those points. Sometimes I don't even reach those points and that's okay because it's all pat of the adventure of writing for me.

The tech thing for instance is just an unforeseen consequence of my constantly advancing Persan technology. Eventually it just out paced anything the French would have given them.

I do plan on having relationships improve between the French and Persan, its coming but I've had to push it back from when I originally intended. There is an Invisible Hand manipulating things and it's gonna die (sort off). However I can't just kill off one my biggest villains without and equally big climax, that would just be cheep.

The Persan are also supposed to be flawed, very flawed. Their a broken people who have a hard time letting go of the past because they live in a crapsack world with history that has been unkind to them and future that isn't gonna let up. They will learn to let things go as I always intended. It just wound up taking longer then I expected (also I sometimes get caught up and forget about that's what I'm trying to do myself).

Things have actually improved to a slight degree by the way and may be as you imagined. While hateful they were never genocidal and their hatred has largely cooled off to apathy. It's a small step, but it's a step none the less.