Another MxO Religion Chat!

[GamiSB]

Well thats good because EPN wasn't supposed to be anything like Zion. The closest EPN gets to that was just being against Machine control, NOT anti Machine.

Everything concerning EPN centered around Neo's warning to the Machines and making it happen

"I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible."

In short they wanted to show everyone the true nature of the Matrix and allow people to choose for themselves how they wanted to live. Opening up the possibility for all humans to have a chance at seeing the real world, apart of the 1% or not. Sadly however the presentation of this central theme got botched. People in LESIG misunderstood EPN's intent when they were first revealed so you had Machine missions and LESIG characters advocating a very extremist attitude setting off code bombs and such that was never intended. You also had players who already knew about the EPN org being planned thinking it was going to be a more "Morpheus" centered organization which only added more confusion.

While this did add a little more character to the org it's easy, once you set aside any "in-character" bias, to see that once this problem was noticed it was corrected and after that EPN never became that "terror" group people viewed them as. Every event centered around them always followed the same trend of anyone that wasn't apart of the main objective over exaggerating what happened and the potential threats of such.