Zenos would make a cool Sith Lord

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Remind me what Gaius stood for again? That's not snark. I only remember him being manipulated by Lahabrea before getting wiped out quite handily by the WoL (us). I never once feared him.

He stood for the betterment of human-kind above all else. If you were to take an unethical and purely objective viewpoint, he's not wrong. Garlean totality would propel the world at large forward at a breakneck pace. Their machinery alone would allow for optimization or resources, transportation, medicine, and science. The extermination of the beast tribes and their primals would protect citizens from internal threats(it doesn't get much more threatening than a mind-control wave). Even should the Garlean Empire collapse or fall into civil war, those countries would still be in a much better place due to the infrastructure that would be put into place.

Of course this is also glossing over genocide, purposeful erasure of cultures, general war horrors, and the Garleans just being general evil dudes.

Also it was pretty natural not to fear him. His entire Legion essentially got dumped by the Empire for their failure of Silvertear Falls, and that's not discounting all of them that died during Project Meteor.