: Um yeah I think the galaxy is on the verge of civil war now. This is not
: going to be pretty. And with the factions all divided up strange
: beforehand (ie Insurrectionists unified with Covenan Remnant, Spartans
: defecting to Insurrectionsts, etc), the scale of war ans scope of war
: looks like EVERYONE fighting everyone.

The verge!? It's full-on civil war by the sound of it!

Hunt the Truth has seemed to take on a lot of current issues. The sudden cutoff of the whole of the Outer Colonies reminded me of the cutting of the transatlantic internet cables that happened during the Arab Spring, to similarly quell the insurrection and spread of ideas in the Middle East and India.

Similarly, given the parallels to widespread surveillance and intelligence agencies being portrayed as the villains, Ben Giraud as the equivalent of Edward Snowden (with the whole of the consequences of what spreading all hidden truths would do), all the parallels are intentional right now.

This episode was intense. The galaxy is now in full-blown civil war.