Hello pilots of Sirius on the Discovery 24/7 RP server! This is our 'official' greeting to all players and the admin team here on Discovery. Our apologies for it's long time coming, but we are never hasty with regard to making decisions and we usually confer with each other extensively before we make any offical announcement. We also would like this to be an oppertunity for people to have a read and forget some of the assumptions that have been made about the BPS. Also please note, we have made no official decisions about our stance or role here on Disovery yet, which would have to have come from clan leaders such as myself or Discovery. Any actions carried out against the nature of RP here on disco have been, if anything, ungrounded and experimental mistakes. So we apologise for this.
Anyway, here is some general info about us for those of you who may have missed the recent threads around here, and to clear up any ambiguity.
Clan Background
[BPS] Clan was officially formed in October 2004 by Chili and K3. Since this time the clan has participated on various servers but we first started out on Jolt Evolutions 1.28 and the Nightmare Evolutions 1.28 servers. We also made a move to Jolt Vanilla during 2005 and 2006 and we have had a high number of players come through our clan over the last few years. Our most recent activity was on the NiMa esports server (Nightmare server pre 2005) running the Nomads Revenge and the Shrouded Worlds mods.
Our general RP was created to be part of the Bretonia Armed Forces, an elite division (or black guard) with it's own smaller fleet and resources. The general RP philososphy was always to be a more secretive part of the BAF acting on behalf of the Bretonia Monarch in secret operations, often outside or on the extent of Bretonia's borders. This has, in some cases, been swept away in the situation of all out war with other factions and clans on the servers we have played on. We also commit time to general patrolling and assistance to other parts of the BAF where needed.
A lot of the RP we have played has been in combating pirate factions on Bretonia's borders. This goes back historically to fighting some other quite famous Freelancer clans such as the Wolf Pack [WPx], The Legacy [Legacy] and the Omega Pirates Guild [OPG].
Another large portion of RP we have played has been in combating the Nomads. This has been partly due to our history on NiMa and the Nomad's Revenge mods centralising around a continued Nomad / Human conflict in Sirius.
Another aspect of our RP has been our solid stance on smuggling and our continued efforts to reduce such trafficing of illegal goods inside Bretonia's borders.
Clan Moto:
Nos pugna ut servo quod veneratio!
We fight to protect and honor!
Current clan members
As our ranks may undergo a change for Discovery RP I will not list our members with ranks yet. Anyway, here is a short list of
our members active on Discovery with respective roles.
Also here is our old clan story. I am also revieiwing this and thinking of writing an adaptation for Discovery which should suit the RP here.
Clan Story:
Soon after the episode involving Edison Trent & The Order the Bretonian government realised the need for an elite division in its navy. The Bretonian Protection Squadron (BPS) was formed in secrecy by two leading members in the Bretonian Armed Forces, who had gained special permissions & funds from the Bretonian government to start the unit.
These leaders set about the formation of the elite force and soon recruited some of the best and loyal pilots in Sirius. Using the latest 'Special' technologies found from the border worlds, the BPS quickly built up it's arsenal in preparation for Nomad attacks and within months had been granted special charters for capital ships.
The BPS has fully established itself in the BAF and now operates throughout Bretonia at the request of the Monarch. Operations center from our headquarters in New London and the division has a portion of the Bretonian Armed Forces fleet.
The unit is continually striving toward excellence in its officers and the equipment it uses. All officers that join the unit undergo intense physical and physcological training in order to combat the Nomad alien threat.
The three main objectives of the BPS are to combat any alien invasions, protect civilians from pirates and help in reducing the smuggling of illegal goods.
Faction goals on Discovery 24/7 RP
To be part of the Discovery server is our main aim. To integrate with the server RP while maintaining a credible identity. We believe this can be achieved by some simple means.
The first thing is to undergo some slight restructuring and some re-thinking on some aspects of our RP in order to integrate with existing Bretonia factions, namely QCx, BPA, Molly's, Corsairs, Outcasts etc.
As part of this we have agreed to commit ourslves to playing second characters in QCx and BPA factions, while keeping our BPS characters semi-active for the purpose of setup and integration.
The RP part of this may require some subtle changes to our faction story and, when ready, deployment within specific ZOI. We have seen some brilliant idea's already from people in the Discovery community which shows how much potential there is to be had in expanding some aspects of Discovery's RP. So many good heads here at Discovery which is great to see!
This should enrich the RP here on Discovery for all players and at the same time enchance play experience for our own members.
We will be looking for more suggestions as to our specific ZOI and which factions we concentrate on tackling and the tasks we take upon ourselves in order to do this. Already there has been some nice suggestions with regard to this involving our old relationship with OPG. We are very much looking forward to this.
Our members have been instructed to act in accordance with the above goals and we will be in touch with the respetive factions about this soon.
Also, as we wish to accomplish the above first we are not going to create an official faction creation thread yet. However, once we are confident of our direction and purpose here on Discovery you will see a faction creation thread with all the relevant details therein.
I guess that covers the main of it, if you have any queries or suggestions feel free to bring them up with me here or by pm..;)
But I agree with Jinx, this concept is a good one between all those which had been posted here in the last time. How about your ship, space and weapon policies?
Think it was for BPA. BPS is something new and fresh.
Edit: As Ventana already said, you should try come up with a good wepon list, ship list and try set-up a diplomacy list. Good preparations once you are ready for a faction proposal.
If there are any questions among theese list, I suggest contacting the existing Bretonia lawful factions.
Also, I'm very pleased to hear that you are trying your very best to adapt into discovery and that you are willingly joining existing factions in order to get more knowledge about the mod itself. Kudos!
We will be in touch in game about such things with the various factions. This is part of the reason we will wait for official faction creation for some time until we have all of these things ironed out.
For example all the equipment and ship types we should use, our specific ZOI and relations with QCx, BPA, Corsairs, OPG etc etc..
Can you actually suggest some good anti-shield guns we can use as Bretonia military? I found some nice class 9's normal around. Maybe we should use Debilitators or something? need some clarification on this one.. one of many things really..
I really like your open minded attitude of checking out the community first by joining other Bretonian factions before requesting official status. The only problem I see is that there is hardly any gap to fill since we have lawfull military, police and privateers in Bretonia...
um ...I know you guys need to get set up first and check the waters here, but I would suggest that you should take a role of a policeish legion etranger. This way you would hunt down criminals in Bretonian ZoI but outside of the house's territory its self (omegas/taus). What would also mean that you don't get involved into political issues like the war vs Kusari unless QCRF asks you to even the odds during the events (as they do ask BPA right now from time to time).
So your main opponent would be the OPG but hell you know them longer than us. they are really fun to play with as an opponent :nyam:
May I first say that this is the best attempt at an import that I have ever seen.
Seriously, good work. You're actually trying to integrate instead of storming on with a wad of Rheinland Battleships and trying to schmuk everything you see. That is very rare here, and on that I commend you.
Other than that, may I suggest trying to integrate as another wing of the QCRF? We need to try to keep the overall chain of command simple, conflicting factions with the same NPC affiliation always seem to end up having civil wars...
Quote:Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen
You are on the correct track. Keep it up.
I would get rid of the rear admiral rank and give the captain a star. Too many ranks might lead into confusion.
and too many ranks tends to strech members pretty thin.
Might I also sugggest joining a faction (or create independent chars) outside of Bertonia? Just..on the side you know, get a more well-rounded experiance. You could join...say...RepEx?:P
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