There should be more war stories that end with a group of people from both sides waking up to the reality of the situation (that both sides are controlled), disobeying orders, and working together to go after the organizations orchestrating both sides of the war.
The only example I know of Ace Combat 5 and that game doesn't even take place in our world.
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@xianc78 we could have had it at the Christmas truce.... damn.... always makes me sad to think about. guys who were more than willing to have a drink with each other for a night knowing full well they'd have to kill each other the next day if they didn't want to be killed/tortured by their governments. i think i heard that a lot of them simply pretended to be fighting after that, but that might have been a different battle.
@beardalaxy None of them were aware of the round-table meetings that took place 23 years prior by a secret society known as the “The Society of the Elect".
@xianc78 germany really got the short end of the stick.
Outside of these domes live 3 races they bioengineered to live in different regions of Zola. While never explicitly stated yet (I'm on ep39 as of writing) I think the hanawans likely were created first as they can't physically bare exposure to Zola's sun and have to live under the "mud sea". Their beliefs also mirror Tartary and mud flood, which the innocent abuse that to enlist into conflicts for their own ends.
Second are the toran-torans, which I know the least about, initially they just they just come as a tribe with the Civilian race which mirror real life native americans. But the Innocent created them separately from civilians and their differences are more mental than physical. They are extremely homogeneous to the extent it is hard to distinguish an individual toran-toran from another, and in general they act more as a group. They mark the point innocent managed to create a race that could live on Zola's surface but are a step back in mental ability.
Civilians are the final race, and the first to challenge the Innocent, having the both mental ability of the hanawan and physical ability of the toran-toran. Besides the Innocent, they most clearly mirror real humans, having a similar pool of genetic traits found in real humans, besides colored hair.
In a lot of ways the innocent mirror the State. They hold a monopoly on trade and technology, however most civilians whether consciously or not engage in a form of rational ignorance. The innocent can even decide who has a license to trade, and if you work as a merchant or transporter it's safer to affirm your submission to the innocent.
Since the innocent are physically unable to bare Zola's surface, they either use Walker Mechs or enlist other races as "instigators" to handle their conflicts. Which again mirroring real life ends up reaching back to home soil, Jiron who ends up destroying multiple Innocent domes and eventually partially joining forces with "solt" an civilian organization aiming to overthrow the innocent. They are run by Katakam and mirror Natsocs in certain aspects, violating personal rights for group welfare. For example Katakam insists on making the iron gear the collective property of solt, however Jiron refuses as it belongs to Elchi and isn't his to give away.
This has given me an idea for a video game story that will probably get me in trouble with both the CIA AND North Korean hackers.