Nope... The Order isn't a bunch of fundamentalist religious nuts like Al Qaeda. If anything the Order seem more like some sort of elite secret society like the Freemasons which had people in legitimate positions of power like George Washington. So does the Order with members Like Lord Hakkara.

As far as the Japanese go, the only modern international terrorist group I've ever heard about from Japan would be the Japanese Red Army Faction. These guys detonated a bomb in Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv back in the 1970s. If you are talking about an analogue to the Yakuza of today's Japan, the closest in FL would probably be the Hogosha I think.

Mollies and the IRA... I don't know enough about the IRA to make a comment, though on the surface the parallels do seem to be there.

The Retros from Privateer 1 probably comes close to a fundamentalist movement but as we all know they are a goofy and lovable bunch, good for a few yuks with thair hilarious lines ("Eat righteous fire!" heh heh) and totally harmless... As long as you aren't flying a Tarsus, that is..

The Bundschuh and the RAF?

The Order and Al qaeda?

You must be joking..

The Order is obviously a reference to the illuminati, aka New World Order funded by bankers involved in the trilateral commission, council on foreign relations, and the masonic lodges all working with in and under the ruling governments of the world.

Who the hell do you english twats think you are?

Irish Soliders joined the British army during both wars and in the present confilct in Iraq. A solider's funeral took place in his home town which is next door to mine. So dont you dare say we didnt help you. We remain neutral because we dont want to fight. But some of us choose to server your army for the safety of this planet.

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I think Im dumb, maybe just happy - Kurt cobain

Yeah, I agree to all the other "ignorant" Liberty people in this forum that it is sheer impossible to include all different types of countries and regions in the game (hey, I'm from Austria, its hardly represented on a normal "real" world map, but do I complain?). So ficitionally all my ancestors, all the history, all the culture of my country was melted away when the Nomads extincted all life on Earth, a long with the Canadians, French, Italians, bla bla bla all other Alliance nations that would have formed the Alliance in the first place. Go figure.

Actually, thinking about it, maybe we need such regional conflicts, like the Irish and the Brits in this forum in order to prevent us from forming huge military blocks, (okay, the NATO is never even close to something like the alliance, who ever disagrees to this, let me in my naive belief). Whatever happens, I woudn't want WW3 happening anytime soon (there are so many planets to be explored, and aliens to be whacked).

Okay, said enough ****, feel relieved to have added my useless blabber to the forum, so peace, love and sex or whatever

This thread is hilarious. People arguing about 19th & 20th century "history" when we are flying around the universe in the 31st century in another galaxy.

(I'm a Firbolg myself and pissed off at the invaders who stole my land.)

p.s. One might think the Spanish might be a bit unhappy about having their home planet named Crete. What the hell has Crete to do with Spain? And Tripoli Shipyard? The Spanish finally kicked the Moors out of Spain in 1492, but Mickeysoft's geniuses seem to have turned their descendants all into Moors.
(But at least they had enough sense to leave the French behind to get blown up on planet Earth!)

shees you don't hear me complain becouse there isn't an Amsterdam system do you?

PS:I don't live in amsterdam

hmmmmmm signature *drool*

amen barwalker

On the subject of a FICTIONAL game based on a future that has not happened, who is to say how the political and geographical dynamics of the planet will turn out in the next couple of hundred years? 250 years ago, Britain commanded half the globe, (we should have never let the yanks win that skirmish of indpendance. Only joking guys.) The way Doubya is going, in 20 years it could be the United Planet of America! Let's keep this all in pespective and remember that we spend most of our time in front of a computer screen playing a game, and we really should get out of the house more!

The way Dubya is going on with Tony Blurr, Britain may have to declare it's own independence one of these days ... (Come to think of it, why isn't there a MANX system!)

p.s. Dubya would be a Corsair anyway ... if he ever took his drug test and got cleared for flying duty again. ))

Hasn't this argument gone on long enough? I've a nasty feeling this is gonna sink into a flame war. The past is the past, and only fools argue over facts that can be found in a history text book.

Signature? What Signature?

Problem is the "facts" vary from country to country. e.g. Japanese school books saying those nasty Brits and Americans attacked poor little peaceful Japan in 1941 and it had to fight in self-defence. (No mention of what Japan had been doing in China and Korea decades before that.) Even in the US, school books in the North and South still present different versions of a war that happened between them 140 years ago. I suspect a Scottish history book would present a rather interesting view of English history.

"Facts" too often simply turn out to be prejudices in disguise.

I enjoy how people can accuse others of ignorance when they themselves are ignorant of the rules of this site.

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I apologize for letting this thread go on for so long. I usually skim for threads that look like trouble spots. I had no idea a thread about a fictional star system in a fictional game would turn into a discussion like this.