Sumbag - that's the topic starter - you missed one important point:
This is not just a modification it is a community which both evolved over YEARS.
There is the commercial game Freelancer you can play and there is our modification - quite a difference.
Also there are technical additions like FL-Hook which originates from a different server, in particular HHC (Hamburg City Server).
This means you should realise how the original game works and then realise the very difference to this mod.
Microsoft, the publisher of this game, shut down the official public servers a long time ago.
Without the hard work of HHC and the Starport community this very mod would not even exist.
Not to mention all the players who worked on this very mod over the last years.
While there is some kind of team who pushed the discovery modification forward the community teamwork is unique.
This includes players and modification contributors.
My tiny contribution was to recreate the system Hiroshima on behalf and with teamwork of my old KNF faction.
My work is nothing special but it's unique like all the other contributions by my fellow mates:
Jinx for example created most of the 'new' ships here - which are evolving over the years.
All the rules, specific faction IDs are unique.
Not to mention all the Flhook addtions developed by Cannon.
And finally all the story progess under the leadership by Igiss.