[Sesquipedalian]

According to canon, are Ribos and Ikeya in Terran or Vasudan hands?

[Trivial Psychic]

If you're talking about the status at the beginning of the FS1 campaign, I'd say Terran as far as I know.  I remember that Tombaugh Station is in the Ribos system.

[Andreas]

Terran, both in FS1&2. Ribos was apparently a major industrial hub for the GTA, for example, that's were they began the mass-production of the Avenger. Ikeya was propably just anoether backwater system, and it is WAY behind the front lines to be a Vasudan-held system.

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Ai No Koriida
Terran, both in FS1&2.

Well, technically speaking, they were both under Shivan control for PART of FS1.  That's why I specified "the beginning of FS1".

[Blaise Russel]

Dude... that kind of pedantry really isn't worth the rolleyes.

Besides which, it's irrelevant. Guy didn't limit the question to a specific time frame.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic

Well, technically speaking, they were both under Shivan control for PART of FS1.  That's why I specified "the beginning of FS1".

Umm, okay. I just meant that they belonged to the Terrans for the greater majority in the Freespace timeline.

[Goober5000]

Short answer, I think, is *we don't know*.  There's no definitive canon answer.  Since Tombaugh Station was in Ribos, it was at the least a heavily contested system, at the most a strong Terran system.  Since the Taranis operation was conducted by Terrans, I'd say that Ribos and Ikeya were Terran.

That's only 1/3 of the way through FS1, though.  We don't know if anything changed when FS2 rolled around.

[Sesquipedalian]

Hm.  Antares was Vasudan, though, as I recall.  I wonder how they could be Terran, since Antares is the only way to get to those systems according to V's node map.

Maybe it is a discrepancy due to the change in the node map between FS and FS2

[Goober5000]

Well, maybe.  According to several fan sources, Antares is a shared system - probably for this very reason.

[Sesquipedalian]

I've looked at the Wiki.  Seems the ownership of the systems was very fluid, but originally Antares was Vasudan as near as I can tell.  But the fluidity explains things.

[Trivial Psychic]

Originally posted by Blaise Russel
Dude... that kind of pedantry really isn't worth the rolleyes.

Besides which, it's irrelevant. Guy didn't limit the question to a specific time frame.

Actually, the rolleyes was more directed at my own statement.  I'm a person that likes to poke holes in statements whenever I can find them.  I know that kind of nitpicking can get annoying (which is kinda the reason I do it ) so the rolleyes should be taken as my expected community reaction to my nitpickiness.  No insult was intended Ai No Koriida.

[Carl]

I think Ikeya is in Swedish hands.

[FireCrack]

yes

[Janos]

no norway shall reclaim what's rightfully theirs

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Carl
I think Ikeya is in Swedish hands.

I've been waiting for someone to say that for a long time!