On Worldbuilding: Faunus Warlords and the SDC
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So... At least for the purposes of my little verse for RWBY, Vale is like a mix of the US and Europe, while Atlas is like a mix of the US, Russia and Germany.
Culturally and technologically speaking. A number of Mistalian and Vacuoan powers can rival them, but at least in the last century Vale and Atlas have been the most stable and powerful nation-states on the planet. Vacuo had many past glories but fell apart, and Mistral has several powerful sub-kingdoms but they're only loosely in a confederation of a kingdom. And Menagerie is thriving but still isn't on the level of the Big Four, even with Vacuo's issues. Not yet.
Which raises a few possibilities: One, Jacques makes a lot of his money with the SDC and slave labor in the easiest way possible. Just like modern megacorps, he uses slave labor in the parts of Vacuo, Mistral and Menagerie that are lawless. So that makes more sense why he can get away with his shit. Atlas and Vale are powerful but they can't police the world.
Two, Menagerie is pretty big. While Ghira and Kali's government may have driven out the SDC, there would have been Faunus loyal to the old regimes because they were getting rich off Faunus slave labor. So you can have various rogue Faunus warlords in Menagerie and elsewhere who work with the SDC to get rich, just like Third World Warlords do in our world.
Hell, some of them might be working with the more radical elements of the White Fang. The reveal that the White Fang is not only working with terrorists to destabilize the world and kill millions of people with Grimm, AND are exploiting their own people for money and power from the SDC, would be enough for Blake and Sun to get the political clout needed to dissolve the White Fang and to lead an army to help humanity. There.
Yes it's cliche but that's still a step above how Menagerie was handled in canon and gives you a lot more options.
Culturally and technologically speaking. A number of Mistalian and Vacuoan powers can rival them, but at least in the last century Vale and Atlas have been the most stable and powerful nation-states on the planet. Vacuo had many past glories but fell apart, and Mistral has several powerful sub-kingdoms but they're only loosely in a confederation of a kingdom. And Menagerie is thriving but still isn't on the level of the Big Four, even with Vacuo's issues. Not yet.
Which raises a few possibilities: One, Jacques makes a lot of his money with the SDC and slave labor in the easiest way possible. Just like modern megacorps, he uses slave labor in the parts of Vacuo, Mistral and Menagerie that are lawless. So that makes more sense why he can get away with his shit. Atlas and Vale are powerful but they can't police the world.
Two, Menagerie is pretty big. While Ghira and Kali's government may have driven out the SDC, there would have been Faunus loyal to the old regimes because they were getting rich off Faunus slave labor. So you can have various rogue Faunus warlords in Menagerie and elsewhere who work with the SDC to get rich, just like Third World Warlords do in our world.
Hell, some of them might be working with the more radical elements of the White Fang. The reveal that the White Fang is not only working with terrorists to destabilize the world and kill millions of people with Grimm, AND are exploiting their own people for money and power from the SDC, would be enough for Blake and Sun to get the political clout needed to dissolve the White Fang and to lead an army to help humanity. There.
Yes it's cliche but that's still a step above how Menagerie was handled in canon and gives you a lot more options.
