Why is nerve gas used so often?

[Yitzi]

Another reason for the use of nerve gas: Some people just like committing atrocities. Yes, there is some people who like to roleplay ruthless monsters.

I presume they usually play as Yang?

[JarlWolf]

Another reason for the use of nerve gas: Some people just like committing atrocities. Yes, there is some people who like to roleplay ruthless monsters.

I presume they usually play as Yang?

Typically, when I roleplay I typically play as Domai and im more of a pragmatic industrialist, (or whichever faction im playing I try to keep true to their personalities) but for me personally I find Yang, while he does disregard such things he isn't a sadist. He commits atrocities on his path for the perfect society during his social experimentation.

I suppose one could use Yang for such a purpose though, if he wanted to rid of a faction.Two other factions, besides the Aliens, would be the Spartans and the University. The University faction is one full of brilliant minds. Brilliant minds led by a doctrine of unrestrained science which completely disregards ethics, seeing them as an annoying obstacle to proper research. This could also apply to the survival of their research, a faction is trying to harm or steal their knowledge, I can see the University easily committing atrocities literally in the name of science.

The Spartans are more on the question of whats more tactically, and in the long run (unless they are playing as a more paranoid and what I find, stupid, Santiago) strategy wise. If killing a population with nerve gas will avoid a bloody battle with lots of Spartan casualties, or if it will invoke fear into the hearts and (literally) minds of the people they are fighting, then it just seems pragmatic to use it doesn't it? Sure, it may be condemned by other factions but this is the Spartans we are talking of. The Spartans only care for two things. War and survival, and they don't care how its achieved.

A few other factions could easily be justified for atrocity users, but those are probably the most prominent I can think of.