Is Factions And Earth Nations
#1
Posted 24 July 2014 - 07:10 PM
I'm super oversimplifying here, but
Dracs=future Japan, capellans= future China, lyran comonwealth = future Germany, Rasalhagues = future Scandinavia.
What about fed suns and free world league?
Again, oversimplifying. Don't be offended.
#2
Posted 24 July 2014 - 09:52 PM
#3
Posted 24 July 2014 - 10:03 PM
#4
Posted 24 July 2014 - 10:08 PM
Edited by Ltd McQuarrie, 24 July 2014 - 10:09 PM.
#5
Posted 24 July 2014 - 10:19 PM
#6
Posted 24 July 2014 - 11:12 PM
#8
Posted 25 July 2014 - 03:58 AM
UselessDeadweight, on 24 July 2014 - 07:10 PM, said:
I'm super oversimplifying here, but
Dracs=future Japan, capellans= future China, lyran comonwealth = future Germany, Rasalhagues = future Scandinavia.
What about fed suns and free world league?
Again, oversimplifying. Don't be offended.
My take on a short generalization of each faction:
- Federated Suns/House Davion: essentially the British Empire, with some French overtones
- Lyran Commonwealth/House Steiner: essentially the Holy Roman Empire, with heavy German overtones and some Scottish-themed elements represented
- Draconis Combine/House Kurita: essentially early Showa Era (roundabout WWI/WWII) Japan, with a smattering of other cultures (mainly Arabic) represented
- Capellan Confederation/House Liao: essentially Qing Dynasty Era China, with a smattering of other cultures (mainly Russian and Scottish) represented
- Free Worlds League/House Marik: essentially the Ottoman Empire, with some Roman, Indian (from India), and American overtones
- Free Rasalhague Republic: essentially the Swedish Empire, with some American overtones
#11
Posted 25 July 2014 - 08:33 AM
Thank you very much for your input.
Cheers
#12
Posted 03 August 2014 - 06:54 PM
YaKillinMeSmalls, on 24 July 2014 - 09:52 PM, said:
Marik also actually holds a fair bit of the Americas- including South America and the Southwest US.
The Caballeros mercenary group are an excellent example of just this. I mean, everything from native American tribes that went interstellar to Jewish cowboys.
Kurita space also holds a considerable Korean-based population along with the faux-Japanese culture most of it's adopted.
Edited by wanderer, 03 August 2014 - 06:55 PM.
#13
#14
Posted 01 September 2014 - 06:25 AM
UselessDeadweight, on 24 July 2014 - 07:10 PM, said:
I'm super oversimplifying here, but
Dracs=future Japan, capellans= future China, lyran comonwealth = future Germany, Rasalhagues = future Scandinavia.
What about fed suns and free world league?
Again, oversimplifying. Don't be offended.
Its actually much more complicated like that.
The RULING PARTIES of the houses tend to be from a singular ethnicity. Kurita: Japanese, Liao: Chinese, Steiner: German, Davion: French, Marik: American or British (unspecified.)
People like to simplify that to the entire nation, but the reality is that they are vast star nations with many ethnicities with them.
Kurita has a large population of Muslims and people of Islamic faith. With the 2nd Arkab Legion of the DC adorning half their mechs with passages from the Quran. And the FRR was a Kuritan providence for centuries before Kurita allowed them to Annex.
Liao has a large population of Central Asia and Indian / Hindi heritage (Its why the "Thungee" cults always come from them.)
Davion has a large population of European Spanish Decent. (See the Sandovals and the residents of the Draconis march.)
Steiner has a large population of people from Scottish and Irish decent. (See Isle's of Skyne, and many people in the Arc Royal corridor.)
And Marik itself is known for its VERY wide diversity in its member states. ( As a "League" of independent states all have different people with different decent.
Lumping them all as "space Japanese" or "space Germans" doesn't really give the Universe that much credit, and its a VERY lazy way to generalize the fiction.
The star nations of the IS have long abandoned most of their 20 century Terra roots. Some hold onto the heritage, but that heritage is broken up and placed into many different sub groups of the larger star nations. For example, just because Steiner has a large population of people with Scottish heritage like the Kell Hounds and Arc Royal. Doesn't mean they are the sole beacon of all the Scotts in the universe. As there are also many Scotts in the Cappellan Confederation (The Northwind Highlanders used to be an exclusive Liao loyal Merc unit because of it.)
Edited by SpiralFace, 01 September 2014 - 06:27 AM.
#15
Posted 01 September 2014 - 06:44 AM
FWL: A mix of the all I think. When the Terran Hegemony split, the FWL was the first around. Thus, I think it was a misc. group of systems who wanted to pull of survival as a faction and didn't care who was who.
#16
Posted 01 September 2014 - 12:24 PM
SpiralFace, on 01 September 2014 - 06:25 AM, said:
For the record, the Marik family is said to originate from Eastern Europe - the original House Marik sourcebook states, "It may be unfair to point out that while the Marik family has a history that goes back to Eastern Europe's Middle Ages, so does the family of Vlad Dracul", and the name "Marik" is Slavic (e.g. Eastern European) and refers to Mars (the Roman god of war).
#17
Posted 04 September 2014 - 03:31 AM
SpiralFace, on 01 September 2014 - 06:25 AM, said:
Kurita has a large population of Muslims and people of Islamic faith. With the 2nd Arkab Legion of the DC adorning half their mechs with passages from the Quran. And the FRR was a Kuritan providence for centuries before Kurita allowed them to Annex.
But isint the Draconis Combine a primarily Buddhist and Shinto practicing nation while islam is merely tolerated because of a small group allied with the DC?
#18
Posted 04 September 2014 - 04:11 AM
Strum Wealh, on 25 July 2014 - 03:58 AM, said:
- Federated Suns/House Davion: essentially the British Empire, with some French overtones
- Lyran Commonwealth/House Steiner: essentially the Holy Roman Empire, with heavy German overtones and some Scottish-themed elements represented
- Draconis Combine/House Kurita: essentially early Showa Era (roundabout WWI/WWII) Japan, with a smattering of other cultures (mainly Arabic) represented
- Capellan Confederation/House Liao: essentially Qing Dynasty Era China, with a smattering of other cultures (mainly Russian and Scottish) represented
- Free Worlds League/House Marik: essentially the Ottoman Empire, with some Roman, Indian (from India), and American overtones
- Free Rasalhague Republic: essentially the Swedish Empire, with some American overtones
I would say the Lyran = Austrian Empire and FWL = Byzantine Empire.
#19
Posted 14 September 2014 - 06:00 AM
#20
Posted 14 September 2014 - 08:12 AM
Also Comstar is the HRE, the Lyrans are more the Hansetic League, with Prussian, and even Reformation influences.
World of Blake is the Anti-pope, which is why its settled in the FWL, to go with the Byzantium/Ottoman angle.
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