Get a whiff that this is a multi-ethnic and to an extent multi-cultural (due to the references to various religions practiced by the soldiers) society that makes those things secondary to the higher loyalty to the Terran Federation. Is this the fabled high-functioning globo-homo society we've been promised but hasn't been delivered?
If so it's interesting to see this come out about the same time as Star Trek explores that same theme and right around the time the West starts to go down the globo-homo path.
Figure I'd play a bit of Devil's Advocate here:
Get a whiff that this is a multi-ethnic and to an extent multi-cultural (due to the references to various religions practiced by the soldiers) society that makes those things secondary to the higher loyalty to the Terran Federation. Is this the fabled high-functioning globo-homo society we've been promised but hasn't been delivered?
If so it's interesting to see this come out about the same time as Star Trek explores that same theme and right around the time the West starts to go down the globo-homo path.