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RE: Non-Sirians? Second Coalition? Possible? - Tabris - 01-19-2015
It's a game mate. XD Logic doesn't always apply.
The French taking over everything? Silly business! (Just pokin' fun). But in all seriousness don't expect logic to follow reality, this is set in the future and the regular conventions do not really apply. *shrug* If they did than many of the technologies in Discovery wouldn't make sense and outright break the laws of physics. *shrug*
RE: Non-Sirians? Second Coalition? Possible? - Zed26 - 01-19-2015
This is a common issue working things into the lore - coming from a position of strong national or cultural identity under our current, real-life circumstances.
The closest thing we have to old "canon" is Starlancer, which was set in 2160. Humans had already populated other planets in Sol and had united under the Alliance (American, Australian, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, British and German forces) and Coalition (Russian, Chinese and Middle-Eastern interests). Individual national identities were likely blended together, people adopted common languages, and anything left were cultural relics. It's similar to how we name weapons or projects after ancient history and mythos from other civilizations (esp. Greek and Roman), but they no longer exist. Any real individual national or cultural identities as we know them today have been bred out over generations. After all the wars and migrations, it's likely that no one can even trace their lineage back to the time when those nations or cultures existed, so all that remain are old stories and scraps of history people might adopt symbolically as part of their identity.
The return to divisions with the Alliance sleeper ships in Freelancer are working from that point of a futuristic, integrated culture, not from our current situation.
Plus, it's a game.