Beyond Earth Factions

Ah, it's so liberating not to have to identify to something. :P And especially since it's so far into the future I really don't even care. :dunno:
 
3of5 said:
Freud called, he wants his mental slip back.

Hey Pwnzer, i wanted a faction i can identify too. But then i realized that there are many of them. Its the future damnit, nationalism is long outdated (it is a very antiquated notion here in Europe even now) and the main identfier will be the goal a society sets for itself, a more future oriented version of 20th centuries ideologies. This works great with the concept of affinities and colonization, where my neighbor on planet ist immensely more important to me than my country of origin on far away earth. In the end i'm happy that many of the factions don't identify along ethnic or national lines (but there are some that do, like panslavia, were both of that seems to be important), but are communities of faith, trade and culture. You'll select your faction on grounds of affinity to their goals anyway and that supplements the vision of a more optimistic future nicely. I'm ethnic german too, but i'll play happily as Panafrican union, because it suits my playstyle and ideals. Its the 23th century, why care about skin color or language anyway?
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I'd say some discontent about Europe may come from the name of the European faction.
While most other factions generally named after regions or bigger ethnic groups, i.e. Pan-Asian Cooperative, Slavic Federation, African Union etc, Europe gets from some reason dumped into one French faction.
Same might be the case with Latin America being all Brazilian.

Personally I don't have any problems with the French faction. Simply because I'm convinced that Northern Europe, the Middle-East and maybe even Spanish speaking Latin-America are going to be DLC/pre-order bonuses.
And if even if France conquered all of Europe, there's always General Kozlov to stomp their attempts at conquering new planets. :D
 
Art Grin said:
I'd say some discontent about Europe may come from the name of the European faction.
While most other factions generally named after regions or bigger ethnic groups, i.e. Pan-Asian Cooperative, Slavic Federation, African Union etc, Europe gets from some reason dumped into one French faction.
Same might be the case with Latin America being all Brazilian.

Personally I don't have any problems with the French faction. Simply because I'm convinced that Northern Europe, the Middle-East and maybe even Spanish speaking Latin-America are going to be DLC/pre-order bonuses.
And if even if France conquered all of Europe, there's always General Kozlov to stomp their attempts at conquering new planets. :D
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I think it was Krayzen or Arioch that brought up the idea that Franko-Iberia could refer to the karolingan empire (frankish), which would hint at a paneuropean empire with feudalistic tendencies. But we know absolutely nothing about that faction today, so why the bitterness? Yes, sure, todays european politics somewhat ressurects old animosities between german and french influence spheres in Europe, but its mostly the french that are growing cautious against german hegemony, not the other way round. It is a bit strange to say: "i don't care about the values and goals of a faction, but i want them to be german". What if they are an absolutistic monarchy? Or militaristic autocracy (too close to home for comfort)? An ultracommunist faction, an ecoterrorist cell (oh how i miss CTP)? The germany of 2200 would not have much in common with the germany of today (which is why Brasilia can suddently be militaristic and china a researchers heaven).
 
The New Frankish Empire was my idea ;)

If Germany is not included in game at all, it can appear in the DLC along Scandinavia, Great Britain and Nordic countries.

If it won't appear, we will mod it into the game :D
 
Krajzen said:
The New Frankish Empire was my idea ;)

If Germany is not included in game at all, it can appear in the DLC along Scandinavia, Great Britain and Nordic countries.

If it won't appear, we will mod it into the game :D
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You can be sure of that.
 
And I'm still betting that Franco-Iberia is led by the mighty Andorrans. According to Wikipedia, they have the 3rd highest life expectancy in the world (84 years), and they have the highest capital in Europe so they won't be affected by rising sea levels.
 
shaglio said:
And I'm still betting that Franco-Iberia is led by the mighty Andorrans.
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led by? I think it is Limited to Andorra ...

FrancoIberia= the part of the Iberian peninsula that can be described as Frankish (like Catholic Germany) so not spain/Portugal and not France

Small country that accumulated massive power :)

Europe cannot into space :)
 
I kinda got a theory on the Franco-Iberians. I think Krajzen had the right idea about it being a Neo-Frankish empire.
Come to think of it, the faction is Franco-Iberian. What are some of the first things people would think of when it comes to France and Spain that these two have in common?
Catholicism and their rather militant history when it comes to religion.
France had Charlemagne and his wars against pagan Saxons, the crusades, Hugenotes Wars and Joan d'Arc.
Spain had it's reconquista, inquisition and missionary actions in the Americas.
These two combined could mean that Franco-Iberia is going to be the militant religious zealot faction of BE. We know that the Kiwithans are rather religious but they don't seem to militarily focused.
It possible that the effect of the Great Mistake on Western Europe was a radicalization of religious activity and the people seeking protection&salvation in god, seeing the Great Mistake as his punishment for the sins of mankind. As a result of this the entire region might've transformed into a militaristic theocracy with it's core based around France and the Iberian peninsula.
Elodie would fit into this as a second Joan d'Arc. A girl that supposedly speaks to god and is his chosen to lead the faithful away from Earth and into a new Eden on another planet. The Franco-Iberians goal would be to establish a new world for mankind in god's image and purge those sinners trying to steal this new paradise from the faithful. Whether god wishes man to remain pure, live in harmony with the new world or to transcend his human body will be the Elodie's/player's choice.
 
No confirmation as yet. But it sounds reasonable to me too this leader would be a woman.
 
I don't know why, but I keep picturing Elodie as a man. Who knows if the fourth female leader of the game (presuming that it will be 1/2 male 1/2 female) is actually Bolivar or Hutama :D
 
The French are the only ones, next to America, to have nuclear bombed lands distant of their contiguous states I.e. polynesia.

Btw, should a pearl harbor-esque occur again, say once the current president retires, media info might experience overwhelming military counter intelligence to render such an event relatively moot to the public.
 
...I would love Elodie being the second Joanne d'Arc, young badass hot girl born to fight for christianity/legacy of western Europe/whatever. On the diplomatic screen - overconfident, with cowboy one - liners and witty comebacks, perfect French language and genuine badassery.
 
Elodie is definitely a female name.

The militaristic/religious idea sounds pretty cool... except there's no religion in CivBE, right ? So does it mean they'll just be extremists for whatever affinity they choose ?
 
Teproc said:
Elodie is definitely a female name.

The militaristic/religious idea sounds pretty cool... except there's no religion in CivBE, right ? So does it mean they'll just be extremists for whatever affinity they choose ?
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That seems to be the best guess for what the +-religion or 'pilgrims' will do
 
Indeed, Elodie is definitely a female first name, and it doesn't exist as a last name either.

I've really a hard time fathoming a male leader called Elodie.


Or, maybe Franco-Iberia is going to be a progressive LGBT-friendly state ? That would be the only explanation for a male Elodie. :D
 
I haven't researched the meaning of the name Elodie. For a non-native French speaker like me, it sounded unissex somehow.

By the way, would it be safe to assume that the pink colored faction showed in some screenshots would be Franco Iberia? That would kind of support a female Elodie or, even funnier, the LGBT-friendly state mentioned above
 
Is it pink or is it red?

What does the French, Spanish and Portuguese [and possibly Belgian and Italian] flags have in common?

Although, to be honest, I doubt that's it.
 
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