Admin Notice: Faction Statuses Revoked; Warnings for Inactivity

[Akura]

We've actually recently put in a request with the Admins to shift the faction again and kill the KNF stuff that clearly doesn't work. We've been waiting on the Admins.

That is of course, if Jake put in the request. Please don't tell me Jake didn't put in the request.

Knowing the utter failure of the 113th, the Iseijin recently wrote up a new plan to save our faction, as the KNF ID thing was a terrible idea and we needed to do /something/. I told Jake to PM it to the Admins over a week ago, but he's been busy in Kosovo so I guess it never happened.

This proposal would lead to the 113th going rogue, and the 113th| ships to be full Wild, overt and all. All of our ships would be tagged, and we'd have more than enough activity.

So here it is, public. As we've nothing to lose anyway.




Alright, we were going to wait for 4.86 to begin it's release cycle before we went about fixing the faction, but an opportunity came up that we've decided to push forward our ideas because it's now possible without a release.

Originally, come 4.86, the 113th Division of the Kusari Naval Forces collapses and it becomes widely known that the leadership crumbled and the group went rogue. In reality, the Nomad's original plan for Kusari shifted and the original Iseijin plan became redundant.

With the military resources provided by the Kusari Government and Naval Forces, the Aoi Iseijin have enough to defend their Tohoku fortress, and luckily, Kusari is still weak from the Tau Campaign, and is about to lose to Gallia. That combined with governmental shifts in Kusari guarantees that the Aoi Iseijin in Tohoku aren't taken down by the Kusari Naval Forces.

Come 4.86, the Aoi Iseijin were going to request an ID and small NPC faction, and with the future of the Nomads, we were going to begin work on diplomacy with our neighbours. The Iseijin already have an agreement with the Outcasts, a ceasefire with the Coalition, and a small friendship with the Gaians.

The Aoi Iseijin will then spend time befriending the Gas Miners Guild and Golden Chrysanthemums, and will finally attempt to create a fragile alliance with the Blood Dragons. This will most likely lead to the return of all Blood Dragon technology, as large gamble for the Iseijin. This idea is that we promise to assist the Blood Dragons and Golden Chrysanthemums with their takeover of Kusari, in return for being left alone on the edges of Kusari. Whether this is a clever trick to take Kusari and them stab them in the back, is still to be decided.

The reason we needed our own ID to carry out this plan, is because the Aoi Iseijin have been using the Wild ID, which suits the Das Wilde fine, but doesn't suit the future of our faction. The Wild ID has repninjas in place to make it hostile to every Sirius faction, which suits the Das Wilde fine as they're an offensive military arm of the Nomads, this chokes the Iseijin however, and forces us into hostility with every other faction on the server.

SPOILER ALERT. In the coming version of Discovery, the Nomads continue their defensive stand in the Omicrons, but will reach out to other groups and come to peaceful agreements. SPOILER ALERT.

The Iseijin are the beginning wave of this future, where the Das Wilde are violent, cruel and ruthless, the Iseijin are deceptive, clever and conservative. The Iseijin intend to make friends close to them, and make the Nomads seem like less of a threat to factions whom they make contact with.

We intend to talk to some groups, instead of shooting them, because after all this is Discovery Roleplay, is it not? Half to more than half of Roleplay is talk, we want less people to shoot, and less aggressive roleplay in general.

But what can you do to help us, why am I telling you this? Well, we couldn't use an ID before, we had no choice but to wait until 4.86 for our own ID to be proposed, accepted and made. But if you draw your eyes to the Reapers of Sirius, they managed to take the redundant NovaPG ID as their own, through the use of FLHook.

As you may well already know, the Phantoms recently disbanded, (http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=98354) and their ID now lays about gathering dust in the halls of their former homes. What we're asking, is that you read over our proposal, and should you decide to, FLHook this ID for us and remove a metaphorical chokechain from our throats.

With this new ID, we would be able to have our own seperate set of Repninjas, allowing us to finally execute Diplomacy with other groups as we intend to. The idea with this is to draw the Aoi Iseijin away from the "Kill all in sight" mentality and allow us fit into Discovery like other factions do, we're tired of being everyone's enemies, we want to roleplay with groups around us, we want to talk instead of shooting people.

These changes are already in effect, we've proposed balanced Wild weapons, so that the Wild can stop using Nomad Weapons and use tech balanced for them.

The end result is the Aoi Iseijin faction using Kusari Naval Tech, (Kusari and Sirius Civvy on top of that) working on Diplomacy with the Kusari Unlawfuls and close neighbours. This means we can end up being white celled to the Blood Dragons, Golden Chrysanthemums and Gas Miners Guild, and green to Kusari and Nomad Technology. Being set white repped to the Outcasts and Gaians would be ideal too, but only so that we're not shot at, docking can be denied via the ID.

Our new ID can be similar to the Wild ID, reading:

"Pilot carrying this ID is a member of the Aoi Iseijin, who :

* Can attack hostile ships within their Zone of Influence
* Can land only on Allied bases
* Can demand cargo from any non-Allied ships
* Cannot demand credits from anyone
* Cannot fulfill bounty contracts

Allowed ships: Fighters, Freighters, Transports, Gunboats, Cruisers, Battleships

Carrying unmounted IDs in your ship, as well as not equipping an ID, is a serious crime."

With this, the Aoi Iseijin will clean up all of our tech usage and organise the faction for the future, creating the fall of the 113th as a Roleplay event, and beginning relations with our possible new friends. If this ID proposal is approved, we'd have to present a new faction status on the forums, and allow the public to have their say and the Administation to vote on confirming the changes in the faction.

Thank you for taking time to read this proposal, and we hope to clean up our act for everybody's benefit.

- The Aoi Iseijin Leadership