I'd say FTL counts as this. You're a captain for the Federation. While you're allowed to be an absolute saint, it's not going to get you far; you're expected to be quite ruthless (at the very least by denying terms of surrender, at the most by stealing from civilians, buying slaves, and being the aggressor in conflicts) so you can gain the scrap necessary to survive. It's implied this is due to the desperation from the Federation's crumbling status.
You come off as the better part because the Rebels are explicitly human supremacists. They share the same aesthetic as your ships, but with separate paint jobs.
Overall, you're the protagonist by virtue of being the lesser overall evil.
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u/jbeast33 5h ago
I'd say FTL counts as this. You're a captain for the Federation. While you're allowed to be an absolute saint, it's not going to get you far; you're expected to be quite ruthless (at the very least by denying terms of surrender, at the most by stealing from civilians, buying slaves, and being the aggressor in conflicts) so you can gain the scrap necessary to survive. It's implied this is due to the desperation from the Federation's crumbling status.
You come off as the better part because the Rebels are explicitly human supremacists. They share the same aesthetic as your ships, but with separate paint jobs.
Overall, you're the protagonist by virtue of being the lesser overall evil.