Re: FSE misnomer (what you call where you live)

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>>
>> The description of the FSE in Jon's books (written by an Anglian I
>> notice)reflect a cultural predjudice up front. In French, it would >
>be Etats Federal Europa (gender?). In Italian, something quite
>> similar  sounding I believe (thanks Karl Heinz!) . I believe most of
>> the languages of these countries would end up calling themselves
>> the EFE. FSE is just an anglicism (or is that Anglianism?) of the
>> correct naming.

We did actually explain this in the FSE fleet section of FB1.....

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>> comeback in a NAC that owns all of North and South America...
>
>Indeed, and without wanting to offend anyone, the GZG future history is
>heavily anglo-centric.

Of course it is! It was written by two Brits! (Myself for the basics,
then
a lot fleshed out by Steve Blease)
We never intended it to be a particularly "accurate" prediction of
future
politics (!) - it was written primarily to give a game universe in which
there were still many separate human states, most of whom
disliked/distrusted the others, thus giving an excuse for battles
between
virtually any combination of fleets.
I will admit that, in the back of our minds, there was a desire to do
something a little different from the usual "Americans Rule the Galaxy"
backgrounds rather prevalent in games at the time.... <grin>
(Oh, and the Neu Swabian bit was Steve's - apparently he named it after
an
original Swabian League from sometime in the 1400s - sorry if it sounds
odd
to German players, but the ship names etc, for the NSL mostly came from
a
German customer (Karsten Strochsen, who got the FT503 named after him in
thanks!))

Jon (GZG)
>
>I have considerable problems believing that the NAC could integrate
>Latin America as smoothly as the GZG history makes it out, especially
given
>the superiority complex many (real, present-day) Anglos have over the
>Latinos, which is unlikely to go away, and the long history of tensions
>between North and South America. Plus, if the NAC has devolved power to
>local communities and is something of a democracy, how come there is
>virtually no trace of Spanish or Portuguese in the names of places,
ships
>etc., both in the official books and on the websites ? After all,
Latinos
>would be roughly half the population of the NAC.
>
>Greetings
>Karl Heinz