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[giveamanafish...]

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The ship should be nothing like Canada that anyone envisioned.

We have no big brother figure to defend us or support us. If anything we should be Napoleonic France. Strategic alliances, combined with overt input to local cultures via domination of economics and outright invasion.

(If you're referring to the US, that country describes itself as a melting pot?)

 

Funny thing is, that with a few million colonists at best and the tech to built a massive spaceship which seems to have been converted to a habitat or was it all the time, you could set up shop in one solar system, if it has similar resources like ours +eezo and be content for the next few thousand years or so. Build orbitals instead of settling planets. Probably even more defensible.

Answer to 1 in 2 somewhere.

 

I don't believe there shouldn't be conflict, just that the notion of the explorers seeking domination is unrealistic given the context of the setting in MEA.  You could have baby-making drones or something but you still don't have the connection to the home world that might fuel the desire for domination.

[Sylvius the Mad]

No. There's no such thing as themes.

[KaiserShep]

No. There's no such thing as themes.

 

How can themes be real if the story isn't real? 

[Master Warder Z_]

(If you're referring to the US, that country describes itself as a melting pot?)

It doesn't hurt having the strongest military and economic power in the world as a stepbrother.

[Han Shot First]

If it is a theme, prepare for it to be delivered in a ham-fisted manner. That's just how Bioware rolls. 

 

I can live with it...so long as the game is otherwise entertaining.

[giveamanafish...]

It doesn't hurt having the strongest military and economic power in the world as a stepbrother.

This is the original statement I made:

"Another factor I think is that ____ spaceship will likely have a mixed crew, a lot of different species and religions -- to the extent these are visible -- working towards a common goal. You would tend not to see the race and religion based extremism in attitudes that were at least a surficial characteristic of the Old world dealings with the local population. The spaceship would tend more to be the Canada that Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland envision."

 

All I'm saying here is that unlike most of the examples of imperial and mercantile expansion in our history, the MEA spaceship is going to be a situation where the explorers will be a multi-species, multi-religious bunch with a experience with diversity. As a result you would tend not to have the attitude of superiority you had in recent human history where the outsiders tended to view indigenous populations as barbarians. I suppose it would be more of a mitigating attitude, since humans tend to be pretty tribal as a general rule. I wasn't making a comment about Canada's attitude to its own security or its relation to its much more powerful neighbour. I as a Canadian welcome our American overlords.

 

The reference to Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland was a Canadian inside joke referencing this situation:

http://www.macleans....ith-bill-maher/

 

In point of fact both countries have a long history with racial and religious diversity. My guess is that the US is actually more racially diverse than Canada, with large black and hispanic populations.

[God]

If it is a theme, prepare for it to be delivered in a ham-fisted manner. That's just how Bioware rolls. 

 

I can live with it...so long as the game is otherwise entertaining.

 

Way too hamfisted. 

[Ahglock]

I'll be happy so long as I can give the hapless aliens of Andromeda blankets laced with an advanced form of the genophage.

You clearly are a giver. You see a group of people with a need and you provide. The alliance needs more people like you.