Re: NEW US Timeline

--- Donald Hosford <Hosford.Donald@acd.net> wrote:
...

> But, instead of trying to "patch" the offical
> timeline...Lets do
> something more fun -- create our own!  It does say
> in the FT book to
> create our own history/races/ect.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Well, this IS a British game, so even though I
am an American, I guess they're entitled to something
more imaginative than another "America rules the
stars" timeline. 

There are plenty of timelines in various games 
where humans prove just how petty they can be
(so as to make opportunities for lots of fighting
and they are for combat games after all). It would
be nice to have a LITTLE more optimism about our
abilities to work together. If we were starting
from whole cloth, I might be tempted to establish
a main block of humanity who was idealistic and
reasonably "nice." Then the other splinter factions
would provide the conflict along with the aliens.

Trouble is, we'd want to end up with all the
existing factions so that the FB1 ships still
exist, and being as it's a combat game, they 
still have to be able to fight each other, which
means at least periods of war.

I'd like to see the US, Britain, and maybe a
few surprises in some kind of alliance (and
I don't mind if it's NAC) but an alliance of
equals, perhaps even organized by the Brits 
after the fall of NATO.  But I wouldn't want it
to be all anglican, there should be some other
countries there too. 

For the secessionist parts of the US in the GZG
timeline, it's possible that the government and
a LOT of the population of the US has moved off
world to a set of US (or NAC) colonies, and thus
the secessionists had a much easier time getting
independence. The US fleet might be a part of the
greater NAC fleet, as would the British fleet.
The NAC NAC fleet would have mixed personel. That
leaves room for a new set of ships that might
represent the British independently operated 
fleet (and also an independent US fleet).

I don't want to give the Brits a swelled head,
but how about the Superior Terrans for the HMS
ships. They are already named pretty much as 
the British would have named them.

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