What if Gallia?

[Baby Bonnie Hood]

So... Gallia. Everyone in Sirius was minding their own business, when suddenly this fifth house just shows up out of nowhere with apparently a lot of military might and a lot of owned star systems (and also a really illogical planetary cluster, but that's gone now). And then they go and wreck Leeds, messes up all the trade lanes and tries to take over the planet. They plan to completely take over all of Sirius because something something revenge.

It's been years since Gallia's debut, and from what I've gathered the general opinion on them is rather negative. Lore is nonsense, too many systems, stupid planetary cluster is stupid, that sort of thing. It's far too late to change them now and I can only wish the devs luck on that Operation Royal Flush thing they're gonna do, but I can't help but wonder if Gallia should've been introduced differently.

So I put this out there, if only for the purpose of light reading. It's of my humble opinion that Discovery Freelancer maybe should've been an alternate timeline where Gallia had always been there from the beginning, as in instead of launching in secret they launched along with all the other five sleeper ships and got to Sirius along with everyone else. But where were they during the Nomad War? We could say they closed their borders (and all jump holes to any Gallic systems misaligned) when they noticed Rheinland acting up, and reopened when the whole thing ended. I'm not entirely sure if everything (Council stuff, Leeds invasion, that thing with Normandy, etc.) would still play out the same like this, either exactly the same or with different circumstances but the same outcome anyway or maybe even something else entirely.

What do you guys think? Is this worth discussing, or would you rather fly through Gallic space while listening to that not-really-spacey kinda-unfitting-sorry Gallic music?

[Wesker]

I've asked myself the same question, however I enjoy the pews so I stopped paying attention.

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[Chuba]

Gallia should of never been a thing to begin with.

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[Panzer]

I'd be perfectly happy to revert to the sort of taus that were before the invasion and forget Gallia ever happened.

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[Tarator]

Gallia has a lot of content, from stories to models, that were wasted into it and perhaps could have been a lot more useful if used elsewhere. Too vast to accumulate any player activity, it shouldn't exist or at least its size long term goals and RP should be altered in accordance with server activity.

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[Wesker]

Honestly while in story Gallia rapes all, in RP or player event pvp wise gallia is going to feel the lolgank of lolns when they invade California.

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[Wesker]

So I don't see the concern

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[Baby Bonnie Hood]

Gallia has a lot of content, from stories to models, that were wasted into it and perhaps could have been a lot more useful if used elsewhere. Too vast to accumulate any player activity, it shouldn't exist or at least its size long term goals and RP should be altered in accordance with server activity.

That's another thing. It's probably already been brought up before, but it's perfectly possible to make a fully functional Freelancer mod with just Gallia alone. All those ships, all those stories, all those systems (including the inaccessible ones like Normandy and whatever's beyond Lorraine). It could work if perhaps it didn't have the rest of Sirius dragging it down.

[Gulryz]

Gallia represents French and as we all know French were a part of Allaince and if you read Freelancer History a bit and then Discovery Lore about Gallia then everything will start to make sense

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You can ignore reality but you can not ignore consequences of ignoring reality

[Miaou]

You miss the part where there's a reason for Gallia to invade. The whole "You left us behind!" thing was just a front and propaganda. Gallia was fine keeping to itself until the first Gallic war happened. Between the Royalist, the Council, and the Normandy group Gallia was stripped of a lot of resources to fuel the war. The whole point of the invasion is to gather more resources and to keep Gallia strong. There's also the point that the Council has announced that Gallia exists when it went through the minefields.

Nations do that right now. I don't mean to bring up politics or start a conversation about it, But a good reference is Russia taking claim to part of what used to be Ukraine. Nations/Houses expand and cause war for gain, Gallia isn't different.

Also, it's been stated that Gallia could have been it's own mod. It would be interesting as well, but Disco is what we play and the story from before is already told.