The federation
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Minti2
Deadly, But very fluffy...
YES.... a bad thing, rich getting richer feeding off the poor, and no they are told how to vote!
Join the Empire instead, you get a FREE SLAVE WHEN YOU JOIN UP!
The Federation and Republic are irrelevant in a galaxy that has 400 billion destinations, unlimited resources, and cheap fuel. The individual possess all the power and liberty they'd ever need.
Hopefully that the fédération will not be like the European Union. A gathering of technocrat, bureaucrats without a soul and very far of their peoples.
The Federation is based on the US and is basically a caricature of how society will turn out when corporations and brands become the basic tenets to which peoples' heart beats to. The Alliance is based on the EU with independent systems and somewhat shared goals etc.
As an Imperial pilot, I hate the Federation and think they are a bunch of immoral, inhuman hypocrites with bad tastes and incomprehensible systems of administration.
Saying that, corporations have been hugely successful at changing the world. Sometimes for the worst but lots of times for the best. Lots of innovative products, lifestyles and choices (for the fortunate). They are the oldest of the big powers and therefore must have been the driving force that got Humanity off the planet and out there. This may very well be the real way we get into space!
I would suspect that Federal technology is cutting edge and very tradable, as in Frontier. Maybe freedom of expression and action belong more to Federal citizens than the other powers. However, the same citizens seem to disappear in the sea of individuals the Federation fosters. The Corporation and it's profile/figureheads hold prominence as an entity. How much recognition would any individual get if they were employed by a Corporation? Big business may very well eclipse government in social control - maybe it already has. It seems to coexist with democracy though and the (false?) premise that all citizens have rights and are free to live their lives as they want. This may very well be an illusion but it's a convincing one for the majority.
I'm hoping for more clarification from FD and the writers about the 'flavours' of the cultures. I'm going to be Imperial in ED though; I was Alliance in Elite and Federal in Frontier. That's my excuse anyway.
Saying that, corporations have been hugely successful at changing the world. Sometimes for the worst but lots of times for the best. Lots of innovative products, lifestyles and choices (for the fortunate). They are the oldest of the big powers and therefore must have been the driving force that got Humanity off the planet and out there. This may very well be the real way we get into space!
I would suspect that Federal technology is cutting edge and very tradable, as in Frontier. Maybe freedom of expression and action belong more to Federal citizens than the other powers. However, the same citizens seem to disappear in the sea of individuals the Federation fosters. The Corporation and it's profile/figureheads hold prominence as an entity. How much recognition would any individual get if they were employed by a Corporation? Big business may very well eclipse government in social control - maybe it already has. It seems to coexist with democracy though and the (false?) premise that all citizens have rights and are free to live their lives as they want. This may very well be an illusion but it's a convincing one for the majority.
I'm hoping for more clarification from FD and the writers about the 'flavours' of the cultures. I'm going to be Imperial in ED though; I was Alliance in Elite and Federal in Frontier. That's my excuse anyway.
Well, those individuals who already have enough wealth to buy a spaceship.The individual possess all the power and liberty they'd ever need.
If the trade goods prices in the previous games were anything to go on, you could buy a kiloton of grain for the same price as a Sidewinder, which would set you back about £300,000 at today's prices. (And anyone with that sort of money probably has all the power and liberty they ever need without having to go into space)
LONG LIVE THE FEDERATION! \o/
Whatever you are told about the Empire, especially from proponents of the Empire, is more often than not sugar-coated and always heavily biased, in favour of the Empire, naturally. I'm not saying all Imp's are fundamentally corrupt, but if I ever bumped into a member of the Empire who had Ananias and Sapphira accompanying them, I'd say they were in very good company indeed.
The Federation offers freedom, security, and truth to all its citizens. Don't believe all you hear about the government being run by the corporations and that it's become a dog-eat-dog society because that's just Imperial rumour-mongering.
The Federation is an open hand. The Empire is a veil of deceit and corruption. The choice is yours, Commander.
Whatever you are told about the Empire, especially from proponents of the Empire, is more often than not sugar-coated and always heavily biased, in favour of the Empire, naturally. I'm not saying all Imp's are fundamentally corrupt, but if I ever bumped into a member of the Empire who had Ananias and Sapphira accompanying them, I'd say they were in very good company indeed.
The Federation offers freedom, security, and truth to all its citizens. Don't believe all you hear about the government being run by the corporations and that it's become a dog-eat-dog society because that's just Imperial rumour-mongering.
The Federation is an open hand. The Empire is a veil of deceit and corruption. The choice is yours, Commander.