So we know that Sirius still uses the Gregorian calendar, and quite a number of other holidays are in the game.I had a random thought, would Liberty still celebrate 4th of July? I can just imagine what it might be like in the future with Nova torpedoes and such.
(07-05-2014, 12:42 AM)Sarawr!? Wrote: It's entirely possible that they would celebrate the 4th as some sort of ancient holiday, in Liberty, in 821 AS.
Would they celebrate with spaceships, in space?...Come on now, I'd have to say no to that.
They do air shows. Why not have some sort of spaceship show above the major planets?
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
Would the light from projectiles, lasers, missiles or other types of weapons fired out in actual space be visible at night on a planet? I'm not so sure...
Maybe if there were ships hovering in low atmosphere...but then you have to consider that the costs of such a thing would be super high and the taxpayers would prooobably not be happy.
I don't see any reason why they wouldn't - they are americans anyway, unless the sleeper ship was just a cover up. Independence day is not just about celebration but also of reflection. I wouldn't be surprised if bretonia celebrated the magna karta ( though it doesn't have a special day - I think it should ).
Even though Liberty is based on America, there's no reason why the 4th would be celebrated as an actual patriotic holiday by Libertonians.
When you separate player knowledge from character knowledge you gotta ask yourself: "What meaning does it really have to a character that was born a thousand years after America ceased to exist?"
America as it is comes from England, & yet Americans don't celebrate patriotic British Holidays. What's the point? the country evolved a separate identity & created its own holidays.
That's not to say Libs wouldn't treat it as an annual observance & a shallow excuse to call in sick to work & go out partying (like, St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo) but I don't see any logical reason why a Libertonian would give a rat's ass about the fourth of July a thousand years later any more than any given American gives a rat's ass about...uh, let's say, Boxing Day right now.
Makes alot more sense to pick a day from the disco timeline & create an annual holiday observance that would mean something to a native Libertonian & not the player behind the screen
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