La Legion Etrangere Gauloise

[sovereign]

I'd just like to point out that it's perfectly legitimate to "ignore" history. We are, after all, playing a spaceship computer game set thousands of years in the future with aliens and played off of massive stereotypes. England had colonies all over the world, therefore we should give Bretonia random planets and stuff to represent those. Yeah NO.

Gallia is based on France, yes. It is, however, not simply France in space, just as none of the other houses are. Liberty is not ignoring everything outside their own borders, the Outcasts are not allied with Rheinland and Kusari, and Bretonia is not the trade giant of Sirius.

Being inspired by the foreign legion? Great! Copying it directly without taking the differences between Gallia and France into account? Roughly as good as declaring that anyone not Catholic in Gallia would be burned at the stake.

It seems that the actual people doing this have come around without a huge flamefest. If anything, the badness now seems to be "on their behalf" rather than by them...

Exile is not out to slaughter any new faction in Gallia simply to be a control freak. If you're going to flame anyone for trying to have a stranglehold on Gallia, flame me, since I lead the Maquis, have a voice in Council, am second in command of the Gallic Royal Navy, and wrote most of the wiki information on Gallia. Oh, and I'm also a dev, so you can don your tinfoil hats about that too.

Rather, we, as the people who play in Gallia, want to ensure that everything makes sense. As you may have noticed from the prevailing opinion a lot of people seem to have about Gallia, we have our work cut out for us... but we're doing what we can with what we've got. Sirians being tolerated, much less accepted and called better than Gallic nationals... that doesn't fit. A small team of commandos? Sure, why not. Just not Sirians.

The idea here is not to shut down the people. It is to make sure that everything fits as nicely as it can.

Keep at it, activity in Gallia leads to more activity in Gallia. I'm glad we can talk to each other rather than just flame the other side like a few other houses like to do.

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