Option 1: The crew helped the clones do whatever they need to, to have a chance to win without talking them into doing it nonviolently.
A violent clone army, programmed by Guy, would've overthrown the government and completely destabilized Galilean society. Riots in the streets, bloodshed, a mass clone revolt. It would've been tantamount to civil war, because the CLF was good at shaking things up but had no idea how to create a new government. Clones would've murdered their owners in their beds.
They would have really left the people of Galilee pretty screwed over if they helped the CLF unquestioningly and there may never have been a chance for them to stabilize before they were attacked by outside enemies.
(They might have still got the tech, though).
Option 2: Helping the government.
A people would have stayed enslaved, Moses and his crew would've been publicly executed and the diplomatic process breaking down would have made it so the Galileans wouldn't immediately hand over their tech, but they'd still probably have entered the GIA and at least given the crew a few bits of really advanced tech that weren't gamebreaky to go off with.
They may have possibly offered up clone armies to fight the Ohm to the GIA and it's unknown whether the GIA would accept but the risk is there. There's a huge risk that down the line the crew would be fighting side by side with GIA clone armies--maybe even of some of their members.
The Council are gits and they really didn't want to give away their society's secrets so the Trans9 crew wouldn't have seen much personal benefit.
Basically, they would've either destabilized a society or there could have been far-reaching consequences as a result of the GIA's desperation and what the Galileans would've offered to the war effort.
As it stands, they have the tech, they don't have the alliance, and while the clones have been released, they have good memories for context and no kill programming, which means more peaceful means of protest are a viable option. Thanks to the info released about the Council and the absolutely heart-breaking footage with the clone batches getting "decommissioned" that Querl and Tana out together and put into the Feelies, the Galileean populace is now actually a little pissed about their government and there's growing sympathy for the clones.
By taking the third option and talking Guy down out of releasing a killbot clone army, they gave the world the best chance it has to recover from its social ills, without being ENTIRELY destabilized. Whether or not it actually DOES turn into something is up in the air, because it could have just screwed them all over anyway.
You may or may not find out about what happened after they left later, though.
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Option 1: The crew helped the clones do whatever they need to, to have a chance to win without talking them into doing it nonviolently.
A violent clone army, programmed by Guy, would've overthrown the government and completely destabilized Galilean society. Riots in the streets, bloodshed, a mass clone revolt. It would've been tantamount to civil war, because the CLF was good at shaking things up but had no idea how to create a new government. Clones would've murdered their owners in their beds.
They would have really left the people of Galilee pretty screwed over if they helped the CLF unquestioningly and there may never have been a chance for them to stabilize before they were attacked by outside enemies.
(They might have still got the tech, though).
Option 2: Helping the government.
A people would have stayed enslaved, Moses and his crew would've been publicly executed and the diplomatic process breaking down would have made it so the Galileans wouldn't immediately hand over their tech, but they'd still probably have entered the GIA and at least given the crew a few bits of really advanced tech that weren't gamebreaky to go off with.
They may have possibly offered up clone armies to fight the Ohm to the GIA and it's unknown whether the GIA would accept but the risk is there. There's a huge risk that down the line the crew would be fighting side by side with GIA clone armies--maybe even of some of their members.
The Council are gits and they really didn't want to give away their society's secrets so the Trans9 crew wouldn't have seen much personal benefit.
Basically, they would've either destabilized a society or there could have been far-reaching consequences as a result of the GIA's desperation and what the Galileans would've offered to the war effort.
As it stands, they have the tech, they don't have the alliance, and while the clones have been released, they have good memories for context and no kill programming, which means more peaceful means of protest are a viable option. Thanks to the info released about the Council and the absolutely heart-breaking footage with the clone batches getting "decommissioned" that Querl and Tana out together and put into the Feelies, the Galileean populace is now actually a little pissed about their government and there's growing sympathy for the clones.
By taking the third option and talking Guy down out of releasing a killbot clone army, they gave the world the best chance it has to recover from its social ills, without being ENTIRELY destabilized. Whether or not it actually DOES turn into something is up in the air, because it could have just screwed them all over anyway.
You may or may not find out about what happened after they left later, though.