Historical examples can bring cultural loyalties and familiar assumptions about good and bad sides into a strategy lesson. Fiction allows opposing characters to regard themselves as decent people while pursuing incompatible aims. Avalon's Terrans want to unite humanity under their own rule. Political organization and electoral manipulation are raised as ways they might pursue that aim among democracies, but their approach sends warships, some commanded by people willing to destroy whole planets. Those methods create lasting problems for the unification they claim to seek.
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Science fiction separates strategy from inherited loyalties
Invented conflicts let students test strategic arguments without immediately sorting historical states into familiar heroes and villains.