User blog comment:Aptos/Era 2 Peridot-Changing Homeworld as we know it/@comment-26675961-20160730224318/@comment-27304481-20160730230534

Thank you very much, I appreciate that. I did not notice the parallels to modern movement industry, that makes sense. In a way, this sort of shows our own environmental crisis, how we are running low on some resources on this planet and how running out would dehumanize us in our time of necessity. But thank you, I thought that tied in well with the general life gems have.

Regarding your question, I would say it originally was more of an open civilian area, with gems providing goods and services as needed. There would be moderate governmental influence on large-scale trade, but I feel like smaller trade is generally free, with residential areas and cultural aspects as needed.

However, I feel like Era 2 may have tightened up the restrictions on this, with stricter influence from the government in order to keep everything as efficient as possible. Government workers are organized and go through the bureaucracy, and the civilian gems do their jobs to the best of their ability as much as possible. In a sense, I would say that Era 2 sorta of moves HW to a sort of communist ideal in a way, everyone knows what they are doing and does it the best that they can, and they don't intend on doing anything else. They use what they need, and it's fair share. Given the gems general lifestyle, it would flow more smoothly then human attempts, and the civilians would be more willing due to the logical nature of the society (plus fear against rebellion)

As for the rp, I totally agree. Because it's different from the more repetitive themes and plots of current rps (lets face it, there are only a few ideas for times and places with the differences in plot and characters), plus it changes the notion of a gem. It gives conflict between era two and one, and gvies gems mroe utilitarian a purpose, to discourage unnecessary conflict