Democracy In Action

Democracy in Action is one of the Wolphax quests in The Long Journey Home.

Description
On a Wolphax planet the player can talk about the Wolphax topic. The Wolphax will tell his perspective on how the Wolphax knights treat their serfs and declare his wish for independence. He asks the player submit a Petition For Independence to a Wolphax starport, gate, or Knight Marshall. Accepting the offer starts the quest.

There are three types of reactions from the Wolphax to judge the petition:


 * N.W.S supporters will always let it succeed if it wasn't tempered with or wasn't altered with a dishonorable tone and hostilities. This mostly concerns Malcolm, Benoit and Zoe and their 'attempt' at gun boat diplomacy.
 * N.W.S sympathizers will let the petition succeed if a diplomatic attempt was made, for example by Siobhan or Miri.
 * Anti-N.W.S hardliners will only be moved by Miri's story of the serfs' struggle.

The Petition For Independence can be rewritten by each crew member except of Professor Lebedev to influence the outcome of the quest. Neither the choice of the crew member, nor the seed determines the reaction of the Wolphax knights, so there's always a bit of luck involved. Here is a list of typical reactions once the player shows the Petition For Independence to a Wolphax starport, gate, or Knight Marshall: Since certain crews might have a bad chance of success, it can be a more promising choice to simply hand in the original Petition For Independence.

If the petition is successful, the New Wolphax Sovereignty will declare independence and is added as a new alien race. It also unlocks the N.W.S quest The Flame Of Rebellion.

Miri will appeal to the Wolphax by being understanding towards both sides and detail the hardships in honest feelings. The arthurian Wolphax will be moved by this story and accept the full independance of the N.W.S in all three potential cases.

While Siobhan doesn't appeal to empathy when she rewrites the petition to be always successful like Miri does, her attempt to propose an autonomous but non-independant government under the N.W.S works on sympathetic Wolphax that see no chance for a full independance as well as general N.W.S supporters. This increases the chance to work in 2 of 3 runs.