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Old 01-20-2010   #41
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Okay, maybe "utter bull" really wasn't the right thing to say there. I just "don't like it" is what I should have said. Now the reason I don't like it is it seems to have been written by one of those Terran supremacist d00ds on HLP, portraying Vasudans as primitive and stupid while quite clearly they were smart enough to hold off the Terrans for 14 years. On top of that it seems to run contradictory to canon which suggests that the Vasudans were far more capable in hand-to-hand combat than whoever wrote that literature would like to think (see TVFight from the ST folder).

While it's certainly no less valid than any other fanon production, IMHO it doesn't appear a lot of thought went into it. Although it may be true that the Vasudans have tried to make up for inferior technology with superior numbers and expendable assets, they aren't fucking stupid.

A recent trend I see in fanon stories is to make the Vasudans lapdogs for the Terrans or just utterly helpless. Whether this is because people think they've outlived their narrative purpose as the initial antagonists of FS1, or that they just have some kind of bias, is completely unclear to me but (quite bluntly) I don't like it.

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Now that I know what you mean, I kind of agree. The first species that we ever meet will not most likely be stupid like you said, but since they may not know the Terran strategies and general technique, they may have made several mistakes at first. Of course, since this is not confirmed by anyone close to V staff, or anyone that knows a substantial amount about FreeSpace, this is only a superstition. Then again, it's possible that they acted like this, but it doesn't sound like the Vasudans would be that stupid so consistently.
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I reported it 10 hours ago, so not that bad I guess.
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