' Wrote:They've had 800 years of no real conflict to build up massive fleets.
1) No real conflict renders a nation with zero experience in warfare.
2) Zero experience in warfare in foreign territory will not win battles even with superior logistics.
3) Lack of conflict has rarely, if ever, resulted in the development of an armada that would drain almost all of a nation's resources.
4) The Council does not equal good training experience for the GRN. They are apparantly so weak that they were nearly exterminated as an after thought.
5) Holding a grudge against "an enemy" for 800 years, without ever seeing the enemy, is so ridiculous that not even the most contrived cliche from the Single Player Campaign can compete with it.
6) The Nomads held a real grudge against Sirians for 800 years and had superior technology. They were defeated by a small group of fugitives and criminals.
The only way Gallia could brainwash its populace for 800 years, force them to spend an unreal amount of labour developing an armada that basically sits around doing nothing for at least 100 years and mobilize them against an enemy that their country has not even made contact with, is if Gallia was a totalitarian state.
I am to assume that Gallia has no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, a completely government regulated economy and a state that controls all aspects of society like education, morality, and private life. And on top of that I am to assume that they were able to maintain a totalitarian state for 800 years, despite history and Freelancer itself showing otherwise.
