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Hyperion Corporation, An Empire

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http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Borderlands_2?file=Borderlands2boxart3.jpg Through the initial introduction of the humanities class, students were lectured on the theory of empires and how it is understood in literature. Rather than finding another connection to the theory of empires within more literature, I considered my list of games that could be used to base my understanding of the theory. While there were choices like Valkyria Chronicles , which contained an country overtaking territory from others for resources, or Planetside 2 , in which three different alliances combat for facilities on different continents, from my small collection of games, Borderlands 2 seemed to have a correlation with the concepts of empires. http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Handsome_Jack?file=Handsome_Jack.png Borderlands 2 is set on a planet named Pandora, where the main antagonist, Handsome Jack, claims dictatorship over. The main importance of the Pandora is that it contains a Vaul...