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Old 08-05-2012, 11:55 PM
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In my last campaign when Major Po's "Target Zero" doctrine was in full swing the PC party was adding bodies to the corpse population generously and regularly. Both burial and cremation tended to be problematic options in T2K New York City so quite often Po would get creative and mix corpse management with psy ops. He'd often have his men string up, pose, and/or mutilate the recently dead with the aim of demoralizing his enemies, spreading terror and letting the people know that someone or something dark and wicked had arrived in the domain.

Unfortunately these behaviors had some fairly negative consequences for the morale of some of his own, less de-humanised personnel but no one spoke up against it. I guess due to varying degrees of fear of Po, Stockholm syndrome and the ingrained tendency of many soldiers to follow orders, even distasteful and immoral ones. Hey, one man's atrocity is another's avant garde street art, right?
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