The Flame Of Rebellion

**The Flame of Rebellion** is one of the N.W.S/Wolphax quests in The Long Journey Home.

## Description

Once the player has finished the Democracy In Action quest successfully, it is once again possible to ask for work, insult the Wolphax, or talk about the Wolphax topic. The Wolphax serfs on any planet will recognize the player as a friend of the N.W.S and ask him to help start the revolution on all Wolphax planets by bombing a Wolphax starport. If the player takes the Big Asteroid Rocket, the quest will begin. It is not necessary to visit any particular N.W.S planet to do this: each Wolphax planet has but a small chance.

First, the player will need to enter a nearby asteroid belt (close to the Wolphax starport) and attach the weapon to an asteroid. Afterward, the player must visit the destroyed starport, which has indeed been vaporized. El-Zia Tchara of the Black will be waiting for you and thanks the player for starting the rebellion. The reward is The Symbol of the N.W.S., approximately 800-950 and the "REBEL ALLIANCE" achievement. The Wolphax are now hostile and the N.W.S friends. All planets in the galaxy switch allegiance to the N.W.S and remain friendly to the player.

If the player sells the Big Asteroid Rocket or loses it due to a cargo scan (Wolphax Marshalls themselves do not care), El-Zia Tchara of the Black will retaliate by taking pursuit and attempting to kill the player.

## Bugs

This quest is actually supposed to be an alternative to the quest "Democracy in Action" on later planets, and it handles the matter of independance more proactively. The problem is this: all planets are eligible to have the independence quest, but even if one is already freed under the N.W.S, many of the planets on your journey will ask you to do the same and not switch to the rebellion. However, the petition is instantly rejected with a short bewildered insult by the Wolphax noble at any given time. You need to be lucky to find a planet flagged with this quest from the beginning and the chance is clearly below 20%. With roughly 4 Wolphax planets in a seed if you visit all sectors, expect a lot of runs to get this rare achievement. No planet in any run is guaranteed to have this quest, it is one of the rarest feats in the game.

## Notes

* The specific asteroid is treated by the game like a starport: you can even talk to it, even ask questions, presuming you decide not to attach the Big Asteroid Rocket.

## Trivia

* N.W.S. stands for NEW Wolphax Sovereignity and is simply a replacement of the old inefficient regent monarchy as shown in "Democracy in Action", which more closely aligns with real events like the Independence of India by petition and strike. Short of a spurious comparison of 65% of letters in a shorthand there is zero connection to any N.W.O. conspiracies. Even the violent attack on a port more closely resembles the Red Revolution than anything related to some conspiracy stuff. The N.W.S. when independent is a friendly and supportive planet of equal citizens. There is no "iron fist".
* An unlikely hypothesis considers N.W.S inspired by the N.W.O, or New World Order. Not to be confused with the wrestling organization of the same name, it is the conspiracy that there is an underlying movement to supplant the world's governments with a single, united but totalitarian regime that rules the likely oppressed (and often impoverished) masses with an iron fist, usually from an upper or elitist class. Essentially, it's almost exactly the same scenario used in the game, the name was simply used for the revolutionaries rather than the cultists.