Liberty Navy [LN] Feedback Thread

[Mímir]

I find it hard to believe he said those things while in service. If you have the references handy, can I check the date?

Oliver North is a right-winged radio talkshow host now with opinions on just about everything. A lot of other retired military officers are part of the opinion-making process, but that is after retirement. I never questioned that for a moment.

EDIT: Joe, you are absolutely right that those roles and positions and thus the structure is fluid and changes over time. That's real life. But if we do not base our shared fiction on those familiar structures (I'll have you know that Vanilla Freelancer in most points share exact cultural traits with contemporary-ish society), then everything is up to debate. Why doesn't military align with pirates? Why doesn't traders buddy up with terrorists? Why call it 'navy', 'military', 'officer', 'admiral' if the meaning is something entirely different from our contemporary understanding? If everything is up in the air, is an admiral just a random word with no meaning attached at all? Is everything relative, and if so how on earth is that conducive to social story crafting? How is it even possible to perform social roleplay if there's no shared basis or understanding? And if new meaning is to be attached, is it up to the official faction players to do so at a whim? When I roleplay my Liberty Navy character, can I totally disregard an admirals order on the basis that "an admiral is something else 900 years out in the future"?

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