Step 1: Make a new character with a German name. If you wish, so you can be recognised as a Polizei indie, you can use a sort of tag of your choosing. RFP), [RFP], Polizei|, anything like that, but NOT RFP|.

Step 2: Use the /restart Rheinland command. Log back in on your CSV on planet New Berlin and head to the bar.

Step 3 Option 1 (if you are a lazy yet patient sod, like me, and have plenty of money to spare): You can spend some time checking the bar for two Rheinland Federal Police bribes (triple bribes have even been known to occur), and then switch character back to the same ship and checking again until you get success. You can then purchase varying other bribes (e.g. Republican Shipping, ALG, Kruger, Daumann, Synth Foods (optional), Orbital Spa and Cruise (optional), Bounty Hunters Guild (optional)) and make up the rest of the rep with a mission or two. You can then move to buy the ship of your choice.*
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Step 3 Option 2 (if you aren't as lazy or as patient as the lazy sods like me but still have money to spare): You can purchase a single Rheinland Federal Police bribe, and then buy the bribes for all of the corps listed in Step 1 and make up the rest of the rep with missions. You can then move to buy the ship of your choice.*
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Step 3 Option 3 (if you don't have money to spare for bribes): You can simply go straight to missions to make up the rep.

Step 4: Once you have your Rheinland Federal Police tag, buy a Rheinland Federal Police ID from any Police planet in Rheinland and move on to Halle (if you followed Step 3, you may still be in a CSV. Search the ship wiki for a Rheinland ship you can afford and purchase it (e.g. Banshee, Humpback,*) or keep your CSV). In Halle, you can buy all of the equipment you need from Elbe Station. Don't go to Dessau, as for some reason you buy worse equipment there while needing the RFP Guard reputation.

Step 5: Once you have your IFF, ID, ship and all of the equipment you need (armour, weapons, the works) you can move out of Halle and begin your new life in the Polizei.

*If you wish to purchase a Rheinwehr ship (e.g. Valkyrie, Wraith (NO Bergelmirs of Fafnirs for indies please)) or a larger ship (e.g. Behemoth, Prison Liner, Rheinland Gunboat**) then please send me a PM or something telling me why you have chosen that ship. For Rheinwehr ships, your character needs to have a Rheinwehr background. For the larger ships, I would like to see evidence that you have played as your intended character in a fighter for at least two weeks. You can prove this with time-stamped screenshots, or by reporting in the Message Dump***.

**Rheinland Gunboats require excellent role-play background stories, with permission from both me and a representative of the Rheinwehr (as we don't particularly want out gunboats to be thrown away in crazy fights).

***Reporting into our Message Dump could earn you an invitation into the main faction (if you have Skype), starting you off at a medium rank (Detectiv).


You may ask questions about this in this thread.