Um, ok. If you every studied world history, you should have know that. Anyway, mostly ALL of the FL bases/planets are named for existing places today...
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Thanks captain obvious! here´s another cool thing: wow ok listen to this. I was playing this way cool game called freelancer one day and I noticed that the starting planet is called manhatten! Isn´t that an actual place??? wow dude. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I think other names like texas, colorado, new york, missouri, dublin, berlin, alaska, might be real places on the earth too. Maybe i should try spinning a globe around on my fingers too. Is that the most far out coincidence you´ve ever seen!!!!!! ok srry im being so sarcastic but... nothing personal but that was a little wierd man.
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Hey, its not like he let himself in for this by saying "Ohh look most places in Fl are named after real places" did he? no, he didnt. I actually learned something, I always did think Malta was a city or something, Crete some island somewere and Tripoli I never heard of till I played Fl. No need to get all sarcastic on his ass just cuase happened upon something like this. I always did like finding Fl places in the real world, you know were they got ther insperation from. Bein an Outcast is about doin things you wanna do: Kill, Terrorise, Murder, Destroy, Smoke Cardamine, ya know, normal stuff.....
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those who don´t actually live near the med.sea. (Amaricans and such) probably don´t know the places there and I don´t blame them, cause Bering? I never heard of it, or what about Tohoku and Kyushu. Until FL I never heard of them and I was just as surprised as cid22011 was when I saw that those Kusari systems actually were a part of Japan <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> The Titan Flies Like A Cow <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> "They´re talking from here..." - Freddy Mercury ´86
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yeah I´m with you on that one...I was about to flame but changed my mind at the last minute. I´m surprised you didn´t know Malta though, it was after all one of the key places in World War II..... ....thats the one were the americans waited til everyone killed each other and then came in and "saved the day" (or so hollywood would have us believe). Sorry that was political, I apologise. Malta is beautiful though...Crete was too until us brits send over the lager-lout element to trash the place.
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That is interesting that the three are so close togather. I didn´t know wtf Kusari was and I figured malta had somthing to do with malt wich had somthing to do with cardamine refining/production. I watch my share of ww2 history and never heard of malta. Tripoli is a north african country (or was when the baby us had problems with them in the 1800´s). If outcasts and corsairs all came from the Hispania (sp?) than it´s not suprising these places were close togather on earth "If the limit of a function exists, than it is unique(and therefore, doesn´t exist)" - My Calculus textbook
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The Bering Sea is the water way between Alaska and Russia. Durring the last Ice Age, it waws used my animals and the Native American ansestors to cross from Aisa to North America. Life: No one gets out alive.
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"I´m surprised you didn´t know Malta though, it was after all one of the key places in World War II....." Look at my first post. Do you think i pay attention in history? hell no.
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If you pay no attention to history, you should probably avoid starting a thread about it, no?
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Tripoli is the capital of Libya. For the Coalition!!
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AFAIK "Kusari" is some sort of weapon. The "kusari-gama"... For the Coalition!!
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Kyushu is the southmost island of Japan. Tohoku is a northern province on the island of Honshu. Malta is a small island just south of Italy. Crete is a larger island south of Greece. The weird thing is that "Bretonia" and "Rheinland" do not even exist. Unless they are derivations of "Britannia" and "Rhineland". Of course, many times in history the British have been refered to as Bretons. So that might be the case. Actually, I think "Rheinland" might be the German spelling. But I´m not sure. Anyone speak German here? For the Coalition!!
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reinland= germany bretonia= england As for the person who said i shouldn´t have made this topic. I can make a topic if i want to, as long as it is relevant and on topic. Anyway, there are a couple of people who didn´t know it, so me making this isn´t a waste of time.
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Actually, Bretonia refers to the entire United Kingdom. England is just a part of the U.K., granted it´s the most historically significant, but nevertheless, it is a part of the U.K. And it should in fact be spelled "Britannia." "Bretonia" is just a derivation. For the Coalition!!
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As Wong said, "Bretonia" is a derivative of Britannia which was the Latin word for what is today England. Rhineland refers to a specific area of Germany surrounding the Rhine river. Edited by - TheOrder on 18-09-2003 19:31:17
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Who cares how it´s spelled. The game designers can spell it anyway they want. It wasn´t even the question. He was just talking about how the names in the game refer to real life.
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To settle the Rheinland debate... In German class I was looking in a textbook and I noticed that the German name for the River Rhine is Rhein. Therefore the german name for Rhineland would be Rheinland. "I´m not a Corsair, I just spend my time taking work from them" Child of the Hispania- http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1404122
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Anyone notice the Rhineland is the land lost by Germany after WW1/2. It and the Polish Corridor were taken away by the Treaty of Versailles, and until then it WAS a part of Germany... unless I got the wrong place, I think Im right.... Bein an Outcast is about doin things you wanna do: Kill, Terrorise, Murder, Destroy, Smoke Cardamine, ya know, normal stuff.....
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You´re right. It was WW1. The Alsace-Lorraine (Rhineland) territory was coveted by both France and Germany. Germany lost it after WW1, but it was recaptured in WW2; and not wanting to make another mistake with war reparations, the Allies let Germany keep most of the territories it gained during the war. Partly because the Soviets had taken Eastern Europe. For the Coalition!!
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what did corsair come from? on the info from ur nav map for crete (the planet) sais the corsairs were named for some mediterranean pirate group even though the minoans (sea people, were really powerful n stuff) lived on crete? unless corsair is another way to say minoan....but i dont kno what im talkin about