Read the Movement Before Trying to End It
To respond to protests in Geoplanetical, open Overview → Movements, select the movement, and inspect its demands, participants, and violence level. Then choose an intervention doctrine and apply it. There is no documented guarantee that the strongest response will end a protest safely or immediately.
The official protest-response guide pairs the intervention controls with the need to follow consequences and revisit the underlying demand.
Compare the Intervention Doctrines
Under Intervention doctrine, compare the available approaches:
- Facilitate and protect
- Contain
- Disperse
- Armed crackdown
- Deploy armed forces
Read the estimates for control, escalation, and casualties before selecting a response. Choose Apply for the doctrine you want. An armed crackdown or military deployment first opens the order's commitments; Confirm the order issues that decision.
These options are not interchangeable levels of a guaranteed solution. Stronger coercion can cause casualties and increase political pressure.
Check the Demand as Well as the Streets
After intervening, monitor the movement's violence, casualties, and political pressure. Return to its stated demand instead of judging success only by the security action you selected.
For wider context, open Society and inspect the affected social groups. Compare income, taxes, disposable income, wealth, satisfaction, and militancy. Groups can react differently to living costs, unemployment, housing, and public services.
When your response involves a budget or legal change, follow that decision's own application or legislative procedure. A planned reform is not the same as an implemented one.
Understand the Risk of Using the Army
Low army loyalty can cause some troops to refuse repression, reducing the force available. Soldiers killing unarmed civilians can damage loyalty further, with conscript armies more affected.
Check Army loyalty alongside the movement's casualties. Deploying more force does not by itself guarantee control of the streets or continued military support. The documented estimates and resulting movement report are more useful than assuming one doctrine always works.
FAQ
Where are the protest controls?
Open Overview → Movements, choose the movement, and find Intervention doctrine.
Does deploying the army always stop protests?
No such guarantee is documented. Low loyalty can reduce participation, while repression can create casualties and additional political pressure.
Should I ignore demands after applying a doctrine?
No. Follow the movement's consequences and revisit its underlying demand as well as the security response.