New House?

[Yngen]

And the house's name... big unknown and I'm having very few ideas what it could be. Provence?

Was thinking on that myself. Provence is a good possibility. How about Bourgese?

One looks at how the other houses were named and one gets the sense of primitivism, or perhaps going back to a culture's roots. Liberty was the ideal that sparked the American revolution (Liberty or death...) Bretonia I suppose harkens back to British clan systems before the Normans invaded. Reinland refers to the Rhine river upon which ancient Germans first built their villages. Hispania is obvious---but the two houses that came from that ship didn't get named after it. The Corsairs took on a name that loosely means 'pirate,' and ironically refers back to 14th century FRENCH pirates who's native government turned a blind eye to because they were weakening Frances enemies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsair.) Knowing that, it makes more sense to call the new French house the Corsairs and rename the existing Hispanics living on Crete the 'Conquistadors.' Will never happen, but hey, Microsoft messed up plenty of other items in this game.

The Kusari name is a bit vague as well. 'Kusari' translates to 'chain,' as far as I can tell. How this relates to the in habitants of the Kusari systems is beyond me. 'Chain' could refer to ancient martial arts weapons that involved chains...or could merely refer to the 'chain' of planets in Kusari. I don't know enough about the Japanese to even venture a guess.

Naming the French faction "Provence" actually adds to the whole Corsair/Greek angle if we remember that the actual Provence region of France is the extreme Southeast portion of the country where the Romans first conquered outside Italy. There could be some juicy relationship between the existing Corsairs of Sirius and the newly reunited 'Provencels.'

On the whole it could be a bold and ambitious project. If done well it could further develop the existing factions in Discovery while introducing something new and exciting all at the same time. Intertwine the stories and write in events that bring together as many factions as possible...then you'd really have something.

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