India

[BaconSoda]

thats because nation such as india are not portrayed, not at all in starlancer. Where the coalition represent nearly every eastern bloc nations and Alliance the western, india were among the non-alligned, and probably was so in starlancer until it was (probably) forced into war on whoever side.

As such, a coalition nation should truly be next since we now have all the predominant alliance factions...

If I remember correctly, India was portrayed in the 3rd or 4th mission of Starlancer as a squadron knows as the Bees or Wasps or something of a flying insect. They are an Alliance group that got totally destroyed while you were working with the Pumas, and then the Yumato came on and blew up 2 Coatlition Carriers that you were denied bomber support for.:P

I've proposed African before, only to be laughed at. I still might do some sort of diasporic African RP at some point, but I'd have to do a fair bit of research first.

Africa was also a very small part of the Coalition. They had something like the Jaguars or another cat-like animal representing their squadron. You destroy them completely in that one mission where you sabotage the Coalition's 2nd fleet as Kharov bombers. Or maybe it was the one where you save Klaus Steiner? I forget, but they attack you at the Yumato and you're forced to terminate all of them.

Man I love that game. Where is the joystick for Freelancer, eh?

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[Xing]

uh.. they didnt last long obviously...
if the coalition totally demolished the french and italian fleet, I dont feel like knowing what hapenned to India if they were indeed on the Alliance side...

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[pragun]

My RP story.... hello ??

C'mon people, please give your support here.... its not fair not having anything indian in the game !

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[Xing]

to be put simply, you are like, the only indian guy on forum that we know of and is strongly interested by this idea while the others, like myself, are midly interested by it...
If you truly want such thing, why don't you contact Igiss about it?

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[beander2]

thats because nation such as india are not portrayed, not at all in starlancer. Where the coalition represent nearly every eastern bloc nations and Alliance the western, india were among the non-alligned, and probably was so in starlancer until it was (probably) forced into war on whoever side.

Right - that's what I was saying above. I forgot the whole "Cold War" motif of this - it bugs me since geopolitics would have radically changed by the time these stories got underway, but that's my own thing...

This isn't about "every little nation" either; it's about a subcontinent of 1 billion and another continent of 700-900 million people. These are obvious lapses in the original to me, not to mention the assumptions about southern hemisphere politics (allied with "eastern"/Coalition powers) that don't make much sense geopolitically.

Oh well - we'll just have to be more creative with our RP, which, of course, is the point to begin with.

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[pragun]

1.1 billion population - point to be noted by friends... that's 1 sixth of the world's population... in 1 country !
If u think of the indian sub-continent, it also includes pakistan, afghanistan, sri lanka, bangladesh and myanmar... that'a a collective population of about 2 billion !
And the people look so alike you won't be able to tell which is which !
A third of the world's population... with a totally different culture !

Try not to think of this as a pro-indian move.. but one to promote greater variety in the world of freelancer...

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[pim]

Well, I was thinking... the new faction's sleeper ship... It was made to contain lots more people... Why not a community of Indians here ? You could then show them splitting from Frenches in version 4.86 or 5.01, but... Unless something like that, I think it will be hard to include them as Alliance's survivors... That's up to admins...

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[bluntpencil2001]

If you want to be Indian, play a Bretonian of Indian ethnicity. I imagine that former British colonies would be on the Bretonia.

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[pragun]

If you want to be Indian, play a Bretonian of Indian ethnicity. I imagine that former British colonies would be on the Bretonia.

A bretonian of indian ethnicity ?
Why ??
Because you thin that britain is superior to India ??
Why can't there be an Indian system ?
Why is everybody so anti-india ?

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[MB52]

Nobody is anti-indian, I suggest you re-read things. Everyone is trying to help you.

Now my suggestion, is you make a RP story on it if you realy want. Maybe have a small group show up in their own ship. (Smaller then a sleeper ship, maybe a small cruiser) From there you can work on the RP they might have after showing up so late.. etc...

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