(07-09-2023, 01:56 AM)Shimamori Wrote: The Coalition ships have a red star on them which is the symbol of the Air Force of one infamous country committing war crimes right now, and nobody bets an eye. Some tiny unof faction makes a logo that vague resembles an obscure not prohibited political faction that many people haven't even heard of and everyone is losing their marbles. C is for consistency
It's complained about because the name and the logo used are too overt in what they're supposed to tell and thus create a very bad first impression. The reason you don't see complaints about Xeno, well, xenophobia is because they have roleplay backing it up and never use anything remotely related to extremist organizations, at least I don't consider their "Don't thread on me" flag to be one. Same goes for the example you gave with the Coalition. It has roleplay backing it up, and even if it's slightly questionable, it has been the narrative of the faction as a whole since well before the events described.
I do not share the same opinion as Karlotta, that much is certain, and I can understand that people would like to roleplay organizations that want to also fight back against transhumanism and what-have-you, but it can only go so far before it both turns into a direct import of some obscure far right group or a faction that is just not fitting in the Freelancer universe (AI, Auxo, etc amongst others we have already and are hard to understand from an outsider perspective).
My suggestion, as I said prior and as others have since largely reposted together with their bits, is that this faction needs either a different name, or a different logo, as right now the iconography used coupled up with the whole purity masquerade is too much.
