Interestingly, I feel quite the other way around, I really like the direction the FedSuns are going (I had read Damocles Sanction before so there weren't many surprises, obviously), I honestly think the Julian-Erik conflict is something we've never had in BT before, an inter-faction power struggle were neither faction is "wrong" or "right", "good" or "evil", it feels very organic and believable to me and I really want to know where this is going.
That's not really what I have a problem with - although Erik's relentlessly trying to edit history gets annoying
really fast; yeah, Erik, Julian wasn't there. Maybe you ought to remember just who it was that convinced Caleb to send the First Guards to aid the Lyrans in the first place, mate. Because, Erik, the thing about sending someone to a place far enough away they can't influence things? If it turns out you need them,
they aren't there.
What I do have a problem with is that there seems to be no FS victory in any recent material that isn't borderline pyrrhic; and the attempts to ignore or downplay the massive accounts that the FS in general, and Julian,
specifically, have to settle with the Capellans. It's a fundamental flaw in the narrative at the moment that, for all the harm they have done to the Suns, the Combine simply isn't Julian's enemy in any real sense; he's fighting them because it's necessary, but they're not his narratively-primary enemy.
The Capellans
are. They're the ones who've had all the narrative emphasis placed on them, they're the ones Julian's mainly been fighting, they're the ones who laid waste to Julian's home and murdered his mother [in every sense except genetics]. Trying to ignore or downplay this is really injurious to the setting, and to Julian as a character.
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