Electric Vs. Gas

swordtart · 06-26-2021, 02:25 AM

Always good to see new designs, especially for public utility vehicles.

It would also be useful to get a Canadian perspective on CW lore. The lack of information means you are now our resident subject matter expert :)

I always assumed there would be a RCADA (Royal Canadian Autoduel Association). I am not sure if the Quebecois version would be QADA or AADQ (it would depend if the parent organisation named it or it was named by the Quebec faction). The French tend to be quite dogmatic about rebadging things in the French language (e.g. OTAN vs the rest of the world using NATO). We presumed that if Quebec had declared independence from the rest of Canada it would be equally dogmatic in insisting on full translations rather than using borrowed words. As UK royalty had fled to Canada we also assumed that the ties to the mother country would be reinforced and that Royal patronage would be a feature of the CW future.

Our group at least held the RCMP in high esteem. I think "Due South" romanticised our view of the Mountie as polite, dogged and incorruptible. Whether this is actually true or a discredited fantasy is less relevant here than what we want the fantasy of the RCMP in CW to be. However we do tend to extrapolate from the real-world.

At the time we played (where there was no internet) we assumed that the "Mounties" were the only police force in Canada. We had plenty of exposure to the local, regional and federal police of the US via movies and their bounded jurisdictions (hammered home by the Duke boys "running for the county line"). I suspect none of us really realised that our own UK Police had an equally disjointed jurisdiction and assumed that "UK Police" was a single entity rather than a federation of regional forces (or indeed that there was in fact a force with nationwide jurisdiction in the British Transport Police). Now of course we can minutely investigate the structure of our own and other nations police forces (and that same communications benefit means those forces are probably now far more joined up than they used to be).

06-26-2021, 02:25 AM	#7
swordtart Join Date: Jun 2008	Re: Electric Vs. Gas Always good to see new designs, especially for public utility vehicles. It would also be useful to get a Canadian perspective on CW lore. The lack of information means you are now our resident subject matter expert :) I always assumed there would be a RCADA (Royal Canadian Autoduel Association). I am not sure if the Quebecois version would be QADA or AADQ (it would depend if the parent organisation named it or it was named by the Quebec faction). The French tend to be quite dogmatic about rebadging things in the French language (e.g. OTAN vs the rest of the world using NATO). We presumed that if Quebec had declared independence from the rest of Canada it would be equally dogmatic in insisting on full translations rather than using borrowed words. As UK royalty had fled to Canada we also assumed that the ties to the mother country would be reinforced and that Royal patronage would be a feature of the CW future. Our group at least held the RCMP in high esteem. I think "Due South" romanticised our view of the Mountie as polite, dogged and incorruptible. Whether this is actually true or a discredited fantasy is less relevant here than what we want the fantasy of the RCMP in CW to be. However we do tend to extrapolate from the real-world. At the time we played (where there was no internet) we assumed that the "Mounties" were the only police force in Canada. We had plenty of exposure to the local, regional and federal police of the US via movies and their bounded jurisdictions (hammered home by the Duke boys "running for the county line"). I suspect none of us really realised that our own UK Police had an equally disjointed jurisdiction and assumed that "UK Police" was a single entity rather than a federation of regional forces (or indeed that there was in fact a force with nationwide jurisdiction in the British Transport Police). Now of course we can minutely investigate the structure of our own and other nations police forces (and that same communications benefit means those forces are probably now far more joined up than they used to be). Last edited by swordtart; 06-26-2021 at 03:52 AM.