The Gear/Star Monument in East Freeport?

[Pyrrhon]

I'll apologize in advance: I'm certain this has been answered before, since it's been in since launch, but I've never come across an explanation in-game and I've only just now gotten around to asking for one on the forums <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />What is this thing? It looks like a gear or a sun. It's in East Freeport, right by the gates to North Freeport. I would love some back-story if anyone's got it.

[Cusashorn]

Yeah, I"m with him. What is that thing?

[Eriol]

As much as everything having a lore explanation would be great, it could simply be urban art.  Lots of cities around the world IRL have art in them that has no special significance whatsoever except that it lined an artist's pockets with money.  I actually shake my head sometime to think that if civilization ever fell, would some academics be trying to put WAY too much significance on some trivial things in OUR cities?Not saying there ISN'T a lore explanation, but it could also be just this simple.

[DreamerClou]

I believe its a symbol of Freeport's maritime heritage.

[Pyrrhon]

<cite>DreamerCloud9 wrote:</cite><blockquote>I believe its a symbol of Freeport's maritime heritage.</blockquote>That's a solid, if unsatisfying, conjecture. (Unsatisfying only insofar as it's conjecture, of course. It's the best idea I've heard so far.)There's a giant golden statue on a small island off the coast of central China, of the boddhisattva Guanyin, patron to mariners, with jurisdiction over the sea, etc. She holds a very similar symbol in her hands, an eight-spoked ship's wheel.I'm still dubious, though...

[troodon]

<cite>Pyrrhonic wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>DreamerCloud9 wrote:</cite><blockquote>I believe its a symbol of Freeport's maritime heritage.</blockquote>There's a giant golden statue on a small island off the coast of central China, of the boddhisattva Guanyin, patron to mariners, with jurisdiction over the sea, etc. She holds a very similar symbol in her hands, an eight-spoked ship's wheel.</blockquote>Interesting, though I doubt Lucan is big on the Eightfold Path.