Africans

[Jihadjoe]

Casablanca, Tanger, Rabat...those are all Moroccan cities, So Africa=Alliance.

Might wanna check the history on those bases.

http://discoverygc.com/wiki/index.php/Casablanca_Base - Former corsair base. Implying the corsairs named the base and the planet it is next to.

http://discoverygc.com/wiki/index.php/Planet_Tangier - Formerly colonised by the corsairs. The hessians took it and built a base next to it. The planet was named by the corsairs however the base next to it is all hessian, and thus has a hessian style name.

I've often thought the corsairs could contain north african moorish elements, along with greek, arab, turkish, hebrew, balkan, italian, spanish, and so on...

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[Username removed]

Are you saying Corsairs are Mexican-Spanish-Moroccan hybrids ?

[onca]

The original Freelancer concept art had King as a black guy, complete with mustache. He looked somewhat like Gordon from Sesame Street; he was also named "Scrote". You can see it in the fan site kit.

ps. As for the African nations? Hell, gone the same way as the other 180 countries not covered in Freelancer canon.

[Jihadjoe]

Are you saying Corsairs are Mexican-Spanish-Moroccan hybrids ?

Mediterranean.

I've often thought the corsairs could contain north african moorish elements, along with greek, arab, turkish, hebrew, balkan, italian, spanish, and so on...

I mean... look at the names. Planet Crete. Tripoli Shipyard. Skyros (greek island). Battleship Fes (Fes being the second largest city in Morocco)

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[Username removed]

Could Corsairs also be...RO's ?

[Jihadjoe]

Romanian? Why? I fail to see any influence or place names from there.

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[Username removed]

Romanian? Why? I fail to see any influence or place names from there.

Oki, how about the Outcasts then ?

[Jihadjoe]

Also generally formed from the mediterranean people, but less arab and north african influence, more italian and spanish. Infact I'd say the OC are almost exclusively latinate people.

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[Username removed]

Got it, thanks.
I am thinking to make a RO char, I got Mexican, Japanese, Brittish and as I was born there I can't see where I could fit it.

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Remember, Freelancer (and Discovery) is like Star Trek. There are no arabs in Star Trek because ... it's in the future. (That's an OLD joke.)

Seriously, though - what I imagine has happened, especially in Liberty and Bretonia, is that race and color per se don't really matter much anymore. Most people would, after another 300 or so years on Earth, plus another 800ish years in Sirius, not actually be as ethnically diverse as they are now.

On average, I'd imagine that most people would in Liberty and Bretonia be slightly darker in skin tone than they are now - as Joe said, more Mediterranian. (Medi-Manhattanian, since Terra goes boom?) Basically a bit more Puerto Rican or Italian in complexion. 'Pure' skin tones would be more in Kusari and Rheinland - I could see Rheinland also having some South Africans / Dutch influences.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.