Redux (1) Players

Least we forget, as I see the game doesn't make it obvious, who is playing what:

1 The Feds: mule
2 The Lizards: the elder one
3 The Bird Men: deckroid
4 The Fascists: petrock
5 The Privateers: rincewind
6 The Cyborg: steelrat
7 The Crystals: mrj
8 The Evil Empire: starbuck
9 The Robots: malo
10 The Rebels: pax
11 The Colonies: baer

I thought I was the English?

No, I think you are the Norwegians! Starbuck is the English.

While he has the teeth for it I HATE lutifisk.

The Scotch-Irish part of my heritage insists the The Evil Empire must be the English! That Starbuck plays the part so well is just another point.

So, if the Evil Empire is the English...

The Feds: US
Lizards: Saudi Arabia...? (Thinking of sunlight... maybe Peru because of Galapagos?)
BirdMen: Aussie? (Emus)
Fascists: Germany circa 1933
Privateers: Solmolia
Cyborg: Dick Cheney
Crystals: French
Evil Empire: English
Robots: Japan
Rebels: Taliban
Colonists: India

See what we are reduced to when there is a pause?
Anyway, I would modify as follows:

The Feds: US
Lizards: Arabia.......(pre-WWI middle east)
BirdMen: Aussie
Fascists: Axis....... (pre-WII Germany-Italy)
Privateers: Solmolia
Cyborg: Russia
Crystals: French
Evil Empire: English
Robots: Japan
Rebels: Cuba
Colonists: India

Notes:
1. While I chuckled at the Dick Cheney pick, he isn't really a country no matter what he might think.
2. And I just couldn't think of any of us playing the Taliban (except for Starbuck and he's already the Evil Empire), so they had to go.

I just couldn't figure Rebels until I sent it off...

Rebels could be...

Israel circa 1946
US 1776
Confederacy 1861
French Resistance 1943
Irish from Northern Ireland 1916 - 1998 (Ask Petrock why he hates the IRA)

But I couldn't get them for current world view.

No one else could be the Robots BUT Japan.

OK,

If the EE is England then logically the rebels could be the US. Then, the Feds must be....

Tah Tah...The actual United Nations, circa 2198. Leaving us at:

The Feds: United Nations
Lizards: Arabia.......(pre-WWI middle east)
BirdMen: Aussie
Fascists: Axis....... (pre-WII Germany-Italy)
Privateers: Solmolia
Cyborg: Russia
Crystals: French
Evil Empire: English
Robots: Japan
Rebels: US
Colonists: India

How does that look?

Looks good to me... well, until I have to start calling Petrock Il Duce... then we might have to change the Fascists to N. Korea. Actually, Petrock always DID have a fascination with fascist Kim Il Sung... starting back in High School.

Um.. nope... Not remotely interested in the stupid hobbit thing or whatever he is.

Should I mention your sick fascination with Nikolai Yezhov?

Come on... Lets hear your favorite Stalin-era musical....

The Lubyanka...
What a show....
The Lubyanka...
Here you go....
Stalin knows you're wishin that it would just go away..
But The Lubyankas here and its here to staaaaaaay......

When it comes to dictators I like Sulla. He was an accomplished reformer, who knew how to handle the opposition and reward his supporters. He also surprisingly died in bed of natural causes.

Aaaargh!

You imagine us to be something Arabian???

This insult would be answered with weapons. As we're the only civilized race in the universe we'll take care not to torture you (unless a little bit of waterboarding. But this is likely a kind of holyday. For details listen to the Italian prime minister). We just gonna eridicate you.

But for your pleasure before (we *told* you that we're civilized...):

Feds: unca scrooge's nephews
Lizards: illuminati leaders
Birdmen: The "Schweizer Garde" (Vatican)
Fascist: NRA international
Privateers: Banking unlimited
Cyborgs: Honda-Hyundai-Ford-Chrysler-GM-...
Cystallines: suburban neighbours
Evil empire: always the others
Robotics: microsoft inc.
Rebels: terrorists (until they win, then definition switches)
Missed colonies: they better stay missed

After this: do you really dig *one* good reason to survive?

We're waiting if someone got an idea.
t.e.o.

deckroid wrote:Looks good to me... well, until I have to start calling Petrock Il Duce... then we might have to change the Fascists to N. Korea. Actually, Petrock always DID have a fascination with fascist Kim Il Sung... starting back in High School.

After all, a little sidestep:

Kim Il Sung is perfoming monarchy, doesn't he?
Like most of the asian so called democracies.
And like the USA in some times...

Hehe, t.e.o.

Actually I have seen the light..


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oh...

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hehehe... t.e.o.