Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
I said Klaus was a monarch and an authoritarian by heart because "his way" is to beat everybody into submission. Order through force, that's authorianism 101. He thinks the only way for people to work together is the presence of a supreme leader whose decisions cannot be vetoed. Still authorianism 101. He is also a monarch(ist) because he fully intends to pass his empire on to his son, for his son to do the same and so on and so on and so forth. He may have a low opinion of the other monarchs of the world but he clearly believes that system is sound and right. Wether that's true in the context of this universe is debatable but at least one of the many real-world flaws with this kind of thinking is apparent in-comic: as soon as the strongman was out of the picture all the issues he had put a lid on resurfaced as if he had never been there, namely all the madboys started rebelling even without the influence of the Other.
Gil was in charge of the empire, and we know he's not incompetent, and we know Tarvek told him that he'd probably done as well as he could. It wasn't Klaus leaving that brought down the Empire.

It was
  1. The Jagers defecting to the Heterodyne once the Doom Bell rang. What percentage of his military might did they represent?
  2. Having a large portion of his armed forces near Mechanicsburg when Agatha managed to restore power to the Castle, and it did that thing it does when Mechanicsburg is threated


He was ruling by force, which I fully stipulate is bad, and then a lot of his forces were taken away from him. That was what led the mad boys off the leash.
How do you suppose a Europaean Union would have fared with most of the "nations" ruled either by autocrats or mad boys?

Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
To be fair, nobody knew wasping produced anything other than shamblers. It was research Klaus sponsored that worked that out and started on the process of cleaning up that particular mess. And led to a wasp vaccine.
Klaus was driven by three things: his research, his desire for order in Europa, and his hatred of The Other. These drives did not always produce evil results. It's good that humans can't be perfectly evil any more than we can be perfectly good.