Pepsi Jedi wrote:Just remember, tolkeen was more than just one city though. Much like the "CS Mega cities" are the center of their corresponding states, Tolkeen was as well. There were numberous cities that were hit by the CS. Tolkeen was just the 'Capital' and biggest, most defended and last to fall.
The "Tolkeen war" Was very much written like nations going to war. It wasn't just the one city getting pounded on. The "nations" are just smaller in rifts earth.
The CS is very much a country, just as the US is a country. the CS is just about a third as big, but growing. Tolkeen is a country too (( Well City State but a City State is just a small country.))
Chi-Town is a country, as is Iron Heart, El Dorado, Missouri, Lone Star and Free Quebec. The Coalition is...a coalition, or group of nations with a common goal. Like NATO or the coalition forces that comprise of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) in Afghanistan. NATO has standardization across the different armed forces. For example, they all use the 9mm as the common pistol round and the 5.56mm as the standard assault rifle round. Only in the case of the CS, most of the states are subservient to Prosek and Chi-Town to the point where they all wear and use the same uniforms, equipment, and weapons, save for Free Quebec, who has never really followed Chi-Town's lead and has actually left the coalition. I guess that would make them more of a country as a whole, at least considered one, since a single state has a significant influence over the others. They should really just change their name.
I agree about Tolkeen. I would consider "Tolkeen" as a coalition of sorts with the various other cities around them, like Freehold for example. The city proper was by far the most powerful in the area and kept the smaller ones under their wing. Might as well call the whole area the country of Tolkeen with Tolkeen city as the capitol.