I haven't played FL in a while, but I think I will start again. Hopefully. Maybe. Probably. Hopefully.
Anyway, the story is good. I like the idea of a massive battle that will "decide the outcome" (Its gotta be rigged or the story is screwed, cant have that.) of Bretonia. Personally I think Bretonia is the best house (Ive got prejudice, but that's not important. What important is that Bretonia will eventually reveal that they have been hiding 818 battleships (One a year) in a remote system. Or something.) But I digress. Anyway, I think Bretonia is going to do something crazy, like give Dublin to the Mollys, or promise to declare war on Rheinland after the Gallics (Gallians?) are defeated so that the Mollys/Liberty will help them.
As for Ghost31's question...
' Wrote:I think overall its just a very interesting storyline that does remind me of WWII-ish themes of countries re-aligning to fight common enemies and overall just very cool.
Serious question however that Id actually like answered rather than ignored/flamed. If Liberty took the most prized area of Sirius space for themselves when they arrived first, how has Gallia been so successful that they are able to match all four of the other houses in manpower and fleet capacity? Do they have more systems in reality than we can see now or what? Did Liberty skip over what is now Gallia as it wasnt part of Sirius?
I think that since Gallia had absolutely no problems at all for hundreds of years, no competition or anything, they were able to dedicate every one of their fanatic workers (Viva la France!) and build hundreds of ships, go out, strip mine a couple asteroid/gas fields and build more ships. Plus, we have only seen the Gallic border systems. What if they found a star cluster, and within, say, 400 years, had colonized several dozen systems?
I think that may have been my longest post ever. But it has a quote so it doesn't count.
Edit: I just realized I didnt actually answer a big part your question. I have no clue as to why Liberty didnt see the Gallic area and snatch it up.
Quote:"'Cause, remember: no matter where you go... there you are."