In Sim City Societies, what is the Sentinel and Sentinental Seminary in Authoritarian cities supposed to be inspired by?
In Sim City Societies there are three different types of sims created by the Authoritarian city style buildings. Secret Police, Men in Black, and Sentinels. The first two are self-explanatory, the Sentinels are more intriguing. They also have their own building, the Sentinel Seminary. Other than possibly the Inquisition, what figures in fiction or movies are they possibly based off of?
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The last time I heard Sentinel was in Halo, and I don’t think that’s the answer.
The first “sentinel” I thought of were the machine-killer-floaty-octopus things in the matrix…
but like @Fred931, I don’t think it’s the right answer either.
I did wiki sentinel, and there seems to be a long list of sci-fi (in the way that 1984 is a sci-fi) books. Maybe in one of those books is the answer.
Oh Gosh, it was just on the Syfy channel a few month’s back. The movie was about a society in the future where people had to take a drug to suppress their emotions because love, books, art, music and sensory aesthetic experiences were all crimes punishable by death.
Needless to say, there is an underground society of people hoarding art and committing other ‘sense crimes.’ I don’t think the Sentinels were called that. But they were a member of a kind of martial arts priesthood who had carte blanche to exterminate lovers and the things they loved. Their favorite trick was to get in a room with the lights out and shoot everyone dead without getting a scratch.
It may not be what inspired the Sim City folks, but it may be the other way around.
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