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[Nissui]

What if the gallente equivalent of our pedobear is actually fedobear?

That seems like a very plausible cautionary caveat to any young Amarr or Caldari citizens daydreaming wistfully of an escape to 'freedom'.

[Louella Dougans]

Also, in the normal scheme of things, when the Gallente are doing something bad, the evidence for it, will be in missions given by the opposing factions, primarily Caldari, secondarily Amarr.

e.g. the mission where you have to shoot a Gallente holo-star who had abducted someone's daughter. That mission is given by Amarr agents.


It's not at all common, outside of the epic arc and cosmos missions, for missions for faction A, to show the bad aspects of faction A.

[Ashley]

I'm a bit surprised people are reacting so strongly to this. It's not that uncommon today.

because, without the mention of the girls age, it's just a "those wacky Gallente" story, about celebrity parties and polygamy and infidelity and the other things that make the other cultures go at the Gallente. Subjectively morally wrong, from the other characters point of view.

with the mention of the girls age, it becomes "the Gallente are objectively morally corrupt", from the player's point of view.

that one little snippet, ruins everything.

or just make things more interesting.

My memory is blurry on this one, but there was one mission where you save refugees from pirates or something like that, when you return them to your agent he implies that they need to be put to work asap 'cause making them "free" wasn't cheap and they need to pay back for such services. 

[Veiki]

This might be a parallel to the sort of State's rights vs. Federal law that happens in places in the US.

While there might be laws at a Federal level, each signatory to the Gallente Federation also creates their own laws as their own polity. If a polity within the Fed creates laws saying it's okay to marry a 10 year old girl then that's the law created there.

I don't think it's a tacit endorsement of marrying children across the entirety of the Fed by any means, there's probably a lot of people such a law would offend in the wider Federal mileu due to its contravention of their own concepts of what should be the age of consent.

Then there's the fact that the child marriage might very well be a cultural norm, especially if one considers the caste/feudal system of the Jin-Mei for example where such things might very well happen. There's probably a lot of cases in the Gallente Federation where the government would be sketchy to enforce laws through government agencies on such matters either due to be being hampered by Senate lawmakers or because of the public blowback along the lines of: the Fed government is trampling all over our political rights and culture.

[Vieve]

Then there's the fact that the child marriage might very well be a cultural norm, especially if one considers the caste/feudal system of the Jin-Mei for example where such things might very well happen. There's probably a lot of cases in the Gallente Federation where the government would be sketchy to enforce laws through government agencies on such matters either due to be being hampered by Senate lawmakers or because of the public blowback along the lines of: the Fed government is trampling all over our political rights and culture.

Material Acquisition's based -- and was possibly founded -- in Solitude.  Combine a frontierist mentality and potential heavy cultural influence from the Ni-Kunni (before you laugh, go look at the Border Runner bloodline: you probably remember where Aridia is in relation to Solitude  ) and Syndicate Intaki, and poof!, maybe arranged marriages have become the norm, and the only reason this is making Federation-wide news is because the exec picked the wrong Intaki clan to forge an alliance with.  Or, maybe it was the right clan, but the wrong clan member.