Wow! Really?!
I didn't see THAT part. Bummer.
Will it ever show up again?

I'm guessing it depends. You could go with either the Soldier or the Rebel, so you probably wouldn't have to kill the Imperial Soldiers had you went with him.

When they figured out you aren't with the stormcloaks, they sent you to your execution anyway. Nice job breaking it lady imperial captain, you have just earned the ire of a soon-to-be Demigod and condemned every last member of your organization to death.

PS: Totally going to do a player.additem 192 1
PSS: Unless they have acted differently if you aren't a Nord in which case the end reward determines my allegiance. $_$

To better illustrate (just replace Roman with Empire):

http://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ

Think we'll have a mini-conflict between the Stormcloaks, Cloakstorms, and People's Front of Skyrim?

"Are you the Stormcloaks?"
"**** off!"
"What?"
"Stormcloaks(derisively), we're the Cloakstorms!"

Your given a choice to follow the imperial or the stormcloak!

I'm going to be joining the Imperial Legion as soon as possible. I'm almost certain that the Rebels will be portrayed as the "good guys", but I'm seriously bored of being a rebel against the authority who always so often looks and operates in a much better way. I don't like hit-and-run tactics, I have been a rebel in Fallout 3 and RAGE, and in both of those games (I know they are very different from Skyrim) I would have much preferred joining the authorities. (Enclave and The Authority)

This time, I'm finally getting a chance to side with the authorities to fight the rebels instead of being forced to be a rebel, so I say it's time to stop fighting guerrilla warfare and start fighting like a soldier!

In the end you made the right choice

Although I think I posted it in the wrong thread...it was supposed to be posted in the "Will you join..." thread. Oh well, since it's still about Imperials vs Stormcloaks I guess it isn't off topic.

Seeing as my Oblivion character was a decent Imperial noble who helped everyone, I'm going to reserve judgement until I see otherwise.

Dragonborn Dragonborn
by his honour is sworn
to keep evil forever at bay
and the fiercest foes rout
when they hear triumph's shout

Dragonborn for your blessing we pray
and the scrolls have foretold
of black wings in the cold
that when brothers wage war come unfurled
Alduin bane of kings
ancient shadow unbound
with a hunger to swallow the world

Very well, I'll push you.

If you want to know which "team" is the "Good Team", you'll have to look deep inside yourself and figure out what you think governments should be all about.

For example, if you think peace and prosperity is what life is all about, and if you think that the government's role should be to provide this, then you will probably tend to be a person who sees vast empires as a great solution to life's ills. In that case, you'd probably want to side with the Imperials. You would have made a great Roman.

However, perhaps you think there is more to life than peace and prosperity, especially if these come at the price of the assimilation of cultures. If you view the Roman Empire as being more like the Borg, then perhaps you might prefer to side with the Stormcloaks. If you look in on the ancient Romans and see people who have been lulled to sleep by "bread and circuses", people who are quite content to be fat, dumb and happy, and if this sickens you and you dread becoming this way...

...then I say to you, arise, son of Skyrim! Stand up! Join us and stand up against the whitewashing Imperials and may tyranny stand no longer! The Imperials will not crush us out of existence. We are here, and if we can find the courage in our hearts to stand against them, we will find that we are strong! We CAN defeat the Empire!

We Stormcloaks have been around for millennia. We are the ones who brought about the fall of Egypt. Babylon fell because we decided it should be so. We fought with Alexander's ragtag band when he toppled the Persians from their high horse. We were the Visigoths who sacked Rome. They built walls across England and China to keep us at bay...

But walls are built to come down, and the walls of this Empire are brittle indeed. All across this world of ours, our dream lives on. Why? Because it can never die. As long as there are people, there will be those of us who have the courage to take a stand, a stand for LIFE. Come with us and drink of life to the full, breathing the clean air of freedom - or else be seduced to sleepy slavery, serving the man who thinks he's a god. The choice is yours because it MUST be yours. Don't let anyone make it for you. But choose soon - you are running out of time.

"I never knew what life was...till it passed over my lips in a red gush..." Come with us and drink the blood of the Empire - and LIVE!

My thoughts on the situation:

Which is why ill go stormcloak. Defeat the dragons and give imperials a good kick in the ass. Everything about imperials just tick me off. They have no reason to be high and mighty. They didn't unite the kingdoms, one powerful imperial dragonborn did and even he used treachery to get the throne. They make lots of laws but like to cross the line themselves but when others do they are sure to judge, they try to enforce their gods as if just because they are imperial the sun shines out their ass and they are correct. That's why they are getting their asses handed to them by the altmer and soon by the nords

And he or his heirs aren't even on the throne anymore, other provinces have been seceding, etc. It's high time that a true dragonborn fixes the empire again.

Im going with Stormcloaks on this one. Religious oppression and totalitarian rule isn't ok with me. Down with the Empire!

Actually, I'm starting to think that the Stormcloaks are actually trying to reform the Empire back to how it was prior to the beginning of the 4E (after they put their man on the throne for High King of Skyrim that is). I can see the Blades being in this game and working covertly with the Stormcloaks for the good of a future Tamrielic Empire. I'd argue that the Stormcloaks are not entirely anti-Imperial (racially and/or politically), just anti the current Thalmor-influenced Mede Empire. As far as the Thalmor are concerned, if they can use their puppet Mede Empire to enforce its laws upon Skyrim, getting their own puppet to be placed as High King, then their influence will dominate most of Tamriel, let alone the strongest human nations on the continent, something they most definitely want

I`m with the Rebels all the way. My Nord follows Ulric to Freedom and liberate Skyrim from the Imperial Scum.
I also loved Buliwyf from the 13th warrior..so having Ulric played by that actor is awesome

ulfric kinda gives me an eddard stark kind of vibe... i like him

that

exactly

I'm siding with the Stormcloaks on this one.

Rebel scum, why will not you side with reason and logic?

I'll side with whoever will pay me the most in coins.

We don not want bought soilders like you, go and side with the rebels.