Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25936766-20170820043030/@comment-26397825-20170820082554

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

As for the "2/3 Desert" part.....let's compare it with Vacuo for a moment. Vacuo was founded in an Oasis with "lush jungles", not too different from Ao Kuana. If anything, it was probably smaller.

By current times, it's a vast, harsh, barren wasteland of a desert, thanks to the Kingdoms's exploitation of the land (made easier by how Vacuans were lazy bums who didn't know what struggle was), bringing warfare, mining, and maybe-sorta ecological disasters. And said Oasis and Jungle, are no more. Are you saying it was Vacuo's exploitation of the land which ruined it? Because if you are, that's not what the WoR said at all. They had everything quite in hand and moving along nicely, actually, and weren't exploiting the land at all.

It was "Years of human conflict, unrestricted mining, and ecological disasters" that ruined Vacuo's natural resources after the war came knocking, and the symbol on the mining rigs that tore the land apart is the SDC's which implies it was Atlas who ruined their wonderful place. And then when the Vacuan's finally had enough, they overthrew the Atlas and Mistral people occupying their home and tossed them out, reclaiming it for themselves but much too late to save the lush jungle and oasis.

But I do agree that while there is cause for Faunus to be bitter over the way Menagerie was handed to them, and especially after they fought a revolution to be able to live where they wanted, Menagerie is nowhere near as harsh as Vacuo. I would like for Sun and Blake to maybe go out into Menagerie's deserts at some stage and for Sun to show that it really isn't as hard to live in the desert as they think - and then a few years down the track she goes to Vacuo and sees it for herself. Her comment about the deserts of Menagerie being much harsher than the deserts of Vacuo, when Vacuo can't even create a proper capital city and the entire nation is nomadic, to be more of a "woe is us, our plight is much worse than yours" moment than actual truth.