Hello! Thank you for expressing your concerns. We do understand where you're coming from, and we are taking your objections seriously. After lengthy discussion about this issue, we would like to clarify and tweak what we want to say.
To begin with, concerning your suggestion, technology is very limited in general. Our setting can be considered late Industrial Revolution-era with the addition of working radio so we have a means of communication. Due to the chaos and destruction that occurred in the backstory of our game, the vast majority of human innovation was lost. From the standpoint of the people of Union, the human race is still on the precipice of the brink of extinction, and as detailed in our Society & Culture page, there consequently exists a great deal of societal pressure for people to reproduce.
However, what people do, sexually, is considered nobody's business. The standpoint is that while they definitely want lots of children produced, bedroom matters are not up for discussion. While bigots may exist in the setting, and while there may be canonically homophobic characters apped in, Union as a whole will not stigmatize any same-sex couples or same-sex dalliances. If a homophobic character is apped and creates issues, we will always rule in favor of our players' comfort.
OoCly, this will never, ever be an issue. No NPC will ever look askance and no player or character would ever be asked to not have a homosexual relationship or anything along those lines. For all intents and purposes, it may be freely ignored for the sake of your play and your comfort. Simply, we believe what we've described above is what is most consistent with the established era, circa the late 1800s, with some modifications that make sense to make it more open and welcoming of different ways of life.
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To begin with, concerning your suggestion, technology is very limited in general. Our setting can be considered late Industrial Revolution-era with the addition of working radio so we have a means of communication. Due to the chaos and destruction that occurred in the backstory of our game, the vast majority of human innovation was lost. From the standpoint of the people of Union, the human race is still on the precipice of the brink of extinction, and as detailed in our Society & Culture page, there consequently exists a great deal of societal pressure for people to reproduce.
However, what people do, sexually, is considered nobody's business. The standpoint is that while they definitely want lots of children produced, bedroom matters are not up for discussion. While bigots may exist in the setting, and while there may be canonically homophobic characters apped in, Union as a whole will not stigmatize any same-sex couples or same-sex dalliances. If a homophobic character is apped and creates issues, we will always rule in favor of our players' comfort.
OoCly, this will never, ever be an issue. No NPC will ever look askance and no player or character would ever be asked to not have a homosexual relationship or anything along those lines. For all intents and purposes, it may be freely ignored for the sake of your play and your comfort. Simply, we believe what we've described above is what is most consistent with the established era, circa the late 1800s, with some modifications that make sense to make it more open and welcoming of different ways of life.