Freelancer Timeline

[historian007]

Zane isn't exactly Japanese. From what I know, the Liberty Sleeper ship left before the others, alerting the Coalition Forces to the Sleeper Ships. But the Coalition was also tired of war, so they wanted to enable the Sleeper Ships to escape, thus making the destruction of the remaining Alliance Ships easier. That's why the war ended so soon after the Sleeper Ships left. However certain generals within the Coalition purely hated the Alliance, and wanted all of them destroyed, so they launched an attack on the Sleeper Ships, taking out the Italians, French, Australians and crippling the Hispania and Brettonia. As Nomads and uber-guns and a single guy surviving on the dark side of Pluto, I don't buy it.

The Alliance was NATO + Australia/NZ and Japan.
The Coalition was Russia/China/India/S-E Asia and Latin America.
The Middle Eastern States were destroyed by the united forces of the Coalition and the Alliance, and then the duo went to war. It is also unclear who made the first strike, the Alliance claims it was the Coalition, the Coalition claims it was the Alliance.

Same in Disco, just read Kusari Press vs. Brettonia Press about who started the war. "They did!"