Golden Girl

To his computers?

Although it doesn't really solve the "problem" of failing to stop the broadcasting of the truth to the public in the TPN Trial, or ending up failing to stop the war, or failing to not end up working with the Resistance - everything the player tries to do when they choose the loyalist side at the end of the 1-20 responsibility path ends in total failure - Tyrant's secrets are still broadcast to the public, the war still starts, and the Resistance are still the only option against Tyrant.

With enough prep time, you can believe that anything Batman does is fine.

Which is the defeat of the Well's champion and his Well-empowered followers.

That's why I was asking Dr. Aeon if Chimera made any reference to you "betraying" him by siding with her after you originally captued her for him.

I think that like the moral choice in Katie's original arc, it's probably better to just assume that everyone just did the right thing and helped Belladonna, rather than chosing the evil capturing option.

Gaining Incarnate power is mentioned a lot by Prometheus in the intros and debriefings for the Trials, as well as the wider overview of the whole dimensional war storyline - and by defeating Tyrant and his loyalist thugs, you're defeating a force that was planning to kill you and everyone else who had superpowers if it won.

Praetoria was still designed to give Villains some motivation - by setting up Tyrant and the loyalists as a "law and order" group, they gave Villains the chance to fight law and order, even if it was an evil kind of law and order.
If they'ds tuck to the original Praetorian set up, where Tyrant and his followers were like a preview of Reclsue and the Rogue Isles, Villains wouldn't have had the same motivation.

You're exploiting the help of Heroes to gain Incarnate power for your own evil purposes - that's the trick up your evil sleeve.

Making Incarnate trials for just 3 people would be silly.

Reread how it was worded

The game thinks otherwise

But the Heroes trying to save Praetoria from the loyalists wouldn't let you do that

Villains want a lot of thing - but for practical reaosn, they don't get them

But any new cosmic content might give evil players a chance to take over another planet - even if it'd cause major motivation and logic trouble further down the line

But we have no motivation to cause chaos in Praetoria - we're targeting the loyalists, not the people they've ensalved.

Your'e saving it to conquer it later

Well, that's the only was for co-op content to function properly - there couldn't be a co-op Trial where the goal was to cause chaos and destruction in Praetoria, as Heroes wouldn't join it.

Does that cover capturing Belladonna for him in his GR arc?
Like does he reference the player's "betrayal", as the player is now fighting alongside Belladonna?

It was in the very earliest beta build of GR - it's not like people couldn't see it coming

Don't froget that loyalists = Villains, so they do get kinda swept aside when it comes to writing major storylines

Well, I think we can survive missing out on the 2 people who might have wanted to play a Villain for free

It might put people off playing Villains?

Serving a dictatorship is never heroic

For flavor - the Praetorian storyline was always going to end up with a dimensional war - this is a combat based game, and peace treaties and truces don't really exist until someone's been beten down to 25% health

What makes Praetoria so special is that for the first time in the game, they actually created a non-permanent villain group - unlike all the other villains we fight, the loyalists and their evil empire are actually destroyed - this isn't like foiling the plans of Relcuse, or Nemesis, or Reichsman, where arresting them doesn't actually affect their followers or their power base or their ability to return in future content as if nothing had ever happened to them - this defeat of the loyalists is totally crushing on all level - there's no way back from the collapse of their dictatorship, and the meta-story has been permanently changed by our actions in the dimensional war to liberate the Praetorian people.

As far as I know, it's not been stated for certain anywhere yet - but Tyrant's personal story mission says that everyone had fled Nova Praetoria once the Seer network was smashed on the MoM Trial, and the lore behind the new Tunnel system says that it was constructed to evacuate Praetoria - so it seems like it's a mater of timing as to if we managed to get people to safety or not before Tyrant threw his temper tantrum.

Kang is alive and well in Belladonna's arc - he even references the discovery of the invasion plans as the reason he had to join the Resistance.
It's similar to the moral choice on Katie's first arc - the loyalist option, which is to re-enslave here and her friends, is ignored in First ward by presenting Katie as having been freed - which is the Warden choice.

Basically, there's only one real path through Praetoria, and that's the Warden path - the heroic path - which, strangely enough, is what I've been saying ever since GR first came out