chiasaur11 posted:

You know, the Helghast really make Zeon look appealing.

I mean, yes. Technically you're a soldier for an omnicidal dictatorship whose leader takes "You're worse than Hitler!" as a compliment. And okay, you're probably going to get killed by Amuro "THE WHITE DEVIL!" Ray. And if you insist on bringing up awkward details, you might get killed by your own leadership when Gihren fires the solar ray.

But at least with Zeon, there's a few officers like Hardy and Ral who are genuinely decent people trying to play out a poo poo hand as best they can, you don't have to live on a lovely planet where the elites live in opulence while you don't even get air, and after the first Zeon war is over, assuming you survived, you can just move back home to Side 3, tell whoever's recruiting for the latest Neo Zeon to gently caress right off, and get on with your life. And, you know, there's no shame in being killed by Amuro. Happens to a lot of guys.

With the Helghast, you might get killed by Rico.