Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-26339133-20150427183819/@comment-25063942-20150727210100

AJP27 wrote: Continuing on about what I mentioned about Raiden forging an alliance with Seido, these are some details about Seido's history and associated characters that I hope will be incorporated in future games.

Awesome ideas!!
 * Making it a High-tech, Science Fiction realm as a contrast to many others that are more mystical in order add some more variety (because if any known realm is going to have any sort of Scientific Knowledge well advanced that of Earthrealm, it would have to Seido being that they have a strict adherence to order and logic).
 * Also, I think it would be unique to retcon the technology used for the Lin Kuei's Cyber initiative as being reverse engineered Seidan technology (while Mks 1-3, set roughly during 1992-1995 when they were made, had some room for artistic license, MK9, which is set during that same time, doesn't have that luxury when it is known in hindsight of 2011 that such tech. was impossible. Thus this retcon would be a clever way of writing around this historical inconsistency). This would also provide an opportunity for Cyrax to be included.
 * As for the realm of Seido's collective backstory, I would have it as being thus: Millennia ago, Chaosrealm and Seido were one and the same until a civil war broke out resulting in Seido seceding from Chaosrealm. However, even after having their own realm, Seido as well as its exploration expeditions were the frequent target of Outworld and other realms' attacks until eventually Seido managed to create high weapons and Mech armor to fend off attacks and take a more aggressive foreign policy of preemptive invasion. In addition, I would model Seido's basic society and culture as something along the lines of how the Fire Nation from Avatar: The Last Airbender is portrayed as.
 * Hotaru's backstory would be expanded to include that while as a child he accompanied his parents on one of Seido's exploration expeditions in Outworld. While an attack by Outworld nomads, as a proxy for Shao Kahn to avoid violating the letter of his word, is successfully repelled, Hotaru's parents are brutally murdered. Thus Hotaru would share Raiden's animosity towards Outworld and be willing to aid Raiden in his military endeavor against that realm.
 * As a compliment to Hotaru, I would introduce for him a lieutenant (who I will call "Goriate") who is a battle harden and ruthlessly brutal "Genius bruiser" (to use TV tropes terms) soldier of the Seidan military. Play style wise, Goriate would have one similar to that of Lex Luthor's in Injustice: Gods Among Us.