Police factions

[Mímir]

Well I think the Disco / Freelancer way of doing it is convoluting actual historical things - i.e. who were the first to do something (or the ones to be known for it) in the real world. That is why Liberty is uber capitalist, even though we see a lot of countries with just as big a stress on the interests of capital in other places in the (real) world. And that is why Gallia has the gendarmerie when others do not.

Also don't forget the fact that policing an area means holding sovereignity over that area - Bretonia might feel a bit offended by Liberty suddenly displaying sovereignity over Cortez or Magellan, for instance, which would lead to tensions and possible all out war. That is another reason why the other houses in Sirius have a strict divition of labour between military and police.

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