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sure it can survive the Galactic age with some colonies and so on... but to the point of having a interstellar soccer league?
Look at the current political/diplomatic situations, then the travel times of FTL, the popularity level of the sport across several worlds and factions, different environements and gravities (will be slightly hard to find another Earth 1.0 grav habitable planet), the way their society is and how they play the game...if it is even popular and worth it, and so on.
I can see the Morganites, Drones and few independents participating in a soccer league where seasons may last a few years due to travel times and so on... spartans not much into the sport like sprayber says, so why participate in the league? besides, would think they would be quite aggressive and strong in soccer... Earth Coalition and Mars Combine, possibly...but they are at war with other factions and as if relations will be fix up to the point of them being part of the interstellar league... Venus i don't think is the best of world to play soccer on, and don't it will become to popular or see the point in getting involve in a league... Gaians isolate themselves and mysterious, so generally keep to themselves, so the reasoning for them to get involve in a soccer league as such is?... Cyborgs playing soccer? CYBORGS? besides, the way they are, i don't think they wouldhave much interest anyway... University just recently started to become Active diplomaticly and relations wise...
sorry for being a realist, but the idea of a soccer league in the current BAC state will be quite hard and hard for me to see it possible. better off having a Olympics type thing, which i don't think to many factions will be able to get involve.
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The leaves that are green turn to brown
Jul 2001
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Originally posted by Mellian
sure it can survive the Galactic age with some colonies and so on... but to the point of having a interstellar soccer league?
Look at the current political/diplomatic situations, then the travel times of FTL, the popularity level of the sport across several worlds and factions, different environements and gravities (will be slightly hard to find another Earth 1.0 grav habitable planet), the way their society is and how they play the game...if it is even popular and worth it, and so on.
I can see the Morganites, Drones and few independents participating in a soccer league where seasons may last a few years due to travel times and so on... spartans not much into the sport like sprayber says, so why participate in the league? besides, would think they would be quite aggressive and strong in soccer... Earth Coalition and Mars Combine, possibly...but they are at war with other factions and as if relations will be fix up to the point of them being part of the interstellar league... Venus i don't think is the best of world to play soccer on, and don't it will become to popular or see the point in getting involve in a league... Gaians isolate themselves and mysterious, so generally keep to themselves, so the reasoning for them to get involve in a soccer league as such is?... Cyborgs playing soccer? CYBORGS? besides, the way they are, i don't think they wouldhave much interest anyway... University just recently started to become Active diplomaticly and relations wise...
sorry for being a realist, but the idea of a soccer league in the current BAC state will be quite hard and hard for me to see it possible. better off having a Olympics type thing, which i don't think to many factions will be able to get involve.
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Well, we could cut the number of teams down a little. If Yugoslavia and Croatia can make themselves play each other, Earth and Morgan surely have a chance? 
An Olympics type thing would probably be worse politically. Even the current Olympics is riddled with political posturing. And the same problems of travelling and adaptation to planetary peculiarities are still there.
It's just a flavor thing anyway. If the majority wants it, I say do it.
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Mellian
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The majority wants the soccer tournemeant! It's in!!
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If BAC becomes a soccer thing, i am definatly leaving. I am into sci-fi interactive story, not soccer in the bloody future. If i wanted it, i would go join some Fantasy Soccer game somewhere on the internet.
oh wait, i have an idea, Pirates decides to wreck a stadium, hmmm
-Mellian
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Mellian
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Firaxis as they are pretty much have contact with nearly all of the factions and so on. They are also neutral and independent. besides, rather it be the Treaty of Firaxis then Treaty of New Antonio... and not to keen of having the facist protectorate as mediators  not much in known about them and they just recently came out of blue and become active diplomaticly.
(just came up as a thought... independent means a single world or system not alligned with any bigger faction. once the independent starts colonizing, conquer, or simply take a non-neutral stance, they pretty much become a faction and not considered a independent anymore...anyway, whatever)
I can rap things up from the TAF's point of view, then have background organization of the treaty. May be a couple of BAC weeks or more before all sides sit at a table at Firaxis... all sides that are involved, meaning i see no reason for the Protectorate to get into that, even if they offered to help. Firaxis will be the mediators... as for the sides: Morgan Insterstellar, Terran Alliance and Spartan Federation. maybe the Free Drone Republic as well, but didnt have any direct involvement in the war by the time of the cease-fire.
another note, The ships currently in FTL will not know yet of the Cease-fire until they get to their destination and Comms their Commands... so there is a possibility of Cease fire being broken non-intentionally... so how will you people resolve that?
In other news, sort of loosing interest on BAC in general sure i have playing around with the Pirates...but just interested in developing the society, the faction... not the game itself.
I will still play, just, my mind isn't really into it as it was last week and before.... especially since i started thinking about starting up game base around Master of Orion 3...with modifications history wise... and modifications to the universe itself ...like with did with BAC in a way. working on the concept and the set rules.... may as well work out the structure, then post it and then modify depending on the players interest before started the game. ..and generally basing on Moo3 mechanics, technologies, and so on will be more stable then we did with BAC
decided to post that after reading up on the never-ending story thing going on at civfanatic.
-Mellian
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Sovereign
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Guys,
Here's a update.
I'm in for the soccer tourament. Even though I don't know much about soccer, I like the idea. Too much war-mongering and feuding going on in BAC. We need some normal citizen stuff, to give a better perpsective of the BAC universe as seen from the normal everyday people, not from a military perpsective.
I'm finally wrapping up my busy week, hopefully I can get two or three story posts by next week. I think one will deal with some Quantum experiments, like Quantum Reactors, lasers, computers, etc. Just your basic "work or explode" stuff 
The other post will involve the Berrik ruins, giving it more detail and depth.
The third post may concern some UCS - Hive stuff, if thats ok with you Franky?
I'm going to make it a point to have the UCS focus on exploration, research, etc. as well as civil stuff, rather than warmongering, invasion, or vendettas. Maybe some with the Believers, but that's the only faction that the UCS will actively be aggressive to.
I'm seriously thinking about adding one or two more colonies, to grow through the time-warp. I'd like to describe how a UCS pinoeer colony grows into a full fledged "Star State" over several years and posts, to give the reader a good idea how the UCS develops.
Pretty much about it. What are your thoughts and feelings on these ideas?
Laters,
Academician Randius Zakharov
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Mr. President
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The leaves that are green turn to brown
Jul 2001
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I like Baseball, if you guys want to havea soccer leauge going on, could somebody run the Beleiving team becuase I have no idea about anything works in soccer. |
I like baseball too.  Are the Believers good at it? Someone can cover the Believing soccer teams, no problem.
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If BAC becomes a soccer thing, i am definatly leaving. I am into sci-fi interactive story, not soccer in the bloody future. If i wanted it, i would go join some Fantasy Soccer game somewhere on the internet.
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Like everyone's said, it's just a flavor subplot. Almost every post I've read so far is war, war, war. All I see on television these days is war, war, war. All I read in the papers and in the Off-Topic forum is war, war, war. All my friends talk about is war, war, war, and math, math, math.
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oh wait, i have an idea, Pirates decides to wreck a stadium, hmmm |
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An alternative would be to create a totally separate thread dedicated to the Galactic Cup Soccer League (or whatever you guys call it) |
 Sounds good to me.
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Hive won't be participating for obvious reasons...Playing soccer will be considered treason in the Empire until it is state-sanctioned. |
You could demonstrate the superiority of Hive society by dominating the soccer field as you do space!  The Soviet Union won a silver medal in the 1988 European Championships while being a closed society.
In non-soccer related news, I intend to go into more depth on the Ophelia situation. Authorities there will listen in on native media transmissions (early-twentieth-century type stuff) which will of course prompt some discussion. Some military type people will advocate an extreme solution (not the one you might expect - it'll involve what might be called aggressive terraforming).
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14-05-2002 08:40
Additionally, today I was in a little haste, preparing for my tomorrow trip, which will last for two days... So I figured it would be best to get the post up before heading to Helsinki.
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