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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Blue Planet => Topic started by: Asteroth on May 18, 2011, 12:29:02 pm
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I feel like this has already been mentioned before considering how obvious it is, But I haven't heard it mentioned at all, so I must know: Who on the BP team is the huge Supreme Commander fan that they should name one of BPs major factions directly after one of the factions from SupCom, and use a lot of the head animations in AoA?
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I'm not actually sure whether the faction was named after the SupCom one.
The animations were probably used because they were convenient and easily formatted.
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Damn, when I read the topic title I went: "Damn, is the command guy from FS2 going to appear again?"
As far as I know, the name 'United Earth Federation' and it's variants are pretty common names in sci-fi.
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I like the UED better.
(StarCraft FTW)
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UEF, UED, EDF, GDF, GDI, TC, F, A, are fairly common names for supposedly lawful neutral factions in sci fi settings.
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EA
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LSF
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NBI ;)
:warp:
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All the good Earth faction names are already taken :(
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All the good Earth faction names are already taken :(
Earth Committee on Earthiness
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At least the UEF structurally looks like a federation (Wikipedia: a type of sovereign state characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central (federal) government.)
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All the good Earth faction names are already taken :(
Earth Committee on Earthiness
Sounds like a Gardener's convention. So the Vishnans/Shivans would be more likely to attend.
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The EKAC
Earthlings Kick Ass Club.
Or, slightly more seriously,
HSF- Human Space Force. Or stick an H behind any number of other things. I wonder why people never make sci-fi settings with an Earth faction that actually has humanity in its title.
More seriously...
Terrain Space Armada? "Armada" is common to see as a description for a large force or sometimes as an alien space force name. But it seems remarkably little-used for human space force names, despite not sounding odd or cheesy.
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Well the UEF isn't a military organization precisely, so Armada might be a bit too militant for the name of what's nominally a civilian government with a navy.
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United "Sol" Federation. :nervous:
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You could just make up some actual name. While many countries on Earth have republic or somesuch in their name, they each still have a name of their own. With the possible exception of the USA, since Amerika is also the name of the continent I suppose.
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The thing is, if you a government 'human' this and that, then the state would probably be claiming sovereignty over all humanity. Which could lead to situations like ... that of War in Heaven.
I like Federation for the UEF, since in government structure it is de jure three (or more) loosely affiliated quasi-sovereign states and we see that played out quite clearly in WiH. It also reflects some degree of their noble intentions that central government is limited, even though in practice, the Elders are in ultimate control. A visionary central government + freedom in day to day control of local affairs is quite a good combination if you can make it work.
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I've never heard United Earth Federation use in any context other than SupCom and BP. Just using the name of the faction alone could be dismissed as coincidence, but also used the head animations is too much, someone definitely knows about it.
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I've never heard United Earth Federation use in any context other than SupCom and BP. Just using the name of the faction alone could be dismissed as coincidence, but also used the head animations is too much, someone definitely knows about it.
Your questions are answered in the first response to your first post. FYI there was only one person involved in Blue Planet at that stage of the game so it's not like 'someone' is a very large option space.
The fact that you've never heard of it used in other contexts doesn't mean much; it has been. Like Earth Alliance, it's one that's popped up more than once. It even fits better here than in SupCom.
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UEC, United Earth Commonwealth is my story's Earth faction. :D
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In a short story I jotted out a while back, I used EE - Earth Empire. Not necessarily inspired, but I don't believe I've seen that particular acronym used anywhere else.
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Off the top of my head it was used in Doctor Who and some classic SF.
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Oh. Well Dammit :(
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It's not a huge issue, there's nothing new under the sun.
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Well... In Nocturnal Skies, player will be a pilot who serves in the Earth Defensive Initiative [EDI for short], and it's just elite fleets of GTA. I don't understand why old GTA must fall everytime, it's still cool. EDI is probably used first in my project.
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Well... In Nocturnal Skies, player will be a pilot who serves in the Earth Defensive Initiative [EDI for short], and it's just elite fleets of GTA. I don't understand why old GTA must fall everytime, it's still cool. EDI is probably used first in my project.
Hah, far from it. Plus you've got GDI crowding your space.
ed: and SDI, plus the EDI from Mass Effect :nervous:
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Galactic Human Death-Reich?
This is so much harder when moral ambiguity is central to the plot. :lol:
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Well... In Nocturnal Skies, player will be a pilot who serves in the Earth Defensive Initiative [EDI for short], and it's just elite fleets of GTA. I don't understand why old GTA must fall everytime, it's still cool. EDI is probably used first in my project.
Hah, far from it. Plus you've got GDI crowding your space.
ed: and SDI, plus the EDI from Mass Effect :nervous:
Isn't EDI used in Red Faction?
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That's EDF.
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ed: and SDI, plus the EDI from Mass Effect :nervous:
I don't think you can really count Mass Effect 2s EDI for this discussion, since it isn't a nation there, but an induvidual... kinda...
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That's EDF.
Oh well, it's very definitely a mixture of EDF and GDI
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EDI is ME2 is a shortcut for Normandy's artifical intelligence. Shortcuts can recur. Anyway, Earth Defensive Initiative is inspirated by GDI but it's just an inspiration. Whole name is used first in NS.
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Whole name is used first in NS.
No it's not. The name has been in circulation for decades as a moniker for a global asteroid defense program, and it's also used in C&C modding iirc.
Not that it matters, like I said there's nothing new under the sun. Unless you're Iain Banks in which case you constantly come up with cool new names for stuff.
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The Terran Hanseatic League... :nervous:
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The Terran Hanseatic League... :nervous:
The East Sol Trading Company ESTC.