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Originally posted by petorina:
I think that the Confederation holds a real power over its worlds and
uses military threat to keep them in line! I believe that the Confederation is some
kind of dictatorship which is concealed by the fact that it had some form
of senate. Even so a think that this senate is influenced by the Confederate
military and maybe even by a powerful political authority as well.

Yes! The Confederation is just one big dictatorship and they are all tyrants! Rebels rule!

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(*) Confederation : Although they share the same name, the EV Confederation is probably ruled under a federation, not a con federation as the name might suggest. Confederation is the polar opposite of federation. In a confederation, all the states control their own affairs independantly, but confer to decide national matters.
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Then wouldn't a Confederation be kinda weak compared to a Federation (like the one the Rebels have, in my opinion)?

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Probably yes, probably no. Hard to tell...

Anyway I think the Rebels are cool too!
The Confederation (regardless or whether it's weaker or stronger)
totally sucks!

"The Optimistic Punch!"

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Originally posted by Jormungand:
**I'm not sure about the rebels.. they've always striked me as a kind of republic.. maybe a constitutional
republic. but the Confeds seem fairly communist, according to the intro text..

quote:

But the elite and powerful members of
the Confederation were reluctant to give
up their power after the end of the War,
and began a rule of oppression and
tyranny, aided by the powerful
Confederation Navy.

They exploited the outer colony planets
for the benefit of the wealthy Core
Worlds, stripping them of their
resources and coercing the colonists
into forced labor.

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Actually, from the quote, it sounds like the British Empire in the 1700's.
Jude

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nice melodrama there Jude, the confeds are most definitly not a communist society, cuz there is no 'gov't owns all thing' and its obvious that there is a much more defined class system, it doesn't seem like any1 can go out and be a starship captain, i'd guess that it's more of a plutocratic oligarcy than anything

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