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Which still doesn't require a unified planetary government. Lore-wise there could have been some alternate to the UN or whatever still on Earth with its own ships and everything which wasn't necessarily friendly to the UN. Or, alternatively, this could have taken place some time in the past...

It all just strikes me as a certain amount of lacking imagination. So much sci-fi just assumes Earth to be united in the future, and that any and all Earth colonies would all be ruled by that united government, rather than say groups fucking off specifically to self-rule.

Okay, and that's the point of this thread. Yeah, the Brits called it treasonous, too. This sure is a stupid backstory for the game, then. Then why would they want to break off and why would they use such extreme measures to accomplish this goal? I never claimed it wasn't morally questionable...

And my answer to that question is that this represents a great evil. You apparently ignored it because I wrote it right after the sentence you quoted. They groomed children into being experimented on for their already evil plan. So go in and slaughter people who basically just wanted...

Except, no, they don't know what happened to their child. Their child was taken from them and they were given sickly clones. Yeah, it was so they wouldn't ask questions, but that's exactly what I'm getting at when I say that their children were taken from them and they'll never know what...

Yeah, the whole kidnapping children and replacing them with sickly clones so their parents won't know what really happened to them is pretty evil, as is the experimentation to turn them into super-soldiers. The fact they did it because apparently Earth can't stand the idea of the colonies...