Quote:First of all we are children, and therefore we did not really plan so far yet, however strange as it might sound we will most probably not send anyone away, in about 5-6 ingame years we would probably (yes, just probably for now) look like a mobile orphanage of a less lawful sort.
Quote:The Stragglers' Brigade recruits children younger than 16 years and older than 12, either by extracting them from their environments by request, or by picking them up from the streets on various planets.
Firstly, while the idea itself sounds interesting at least, there are many points you really ought to consider. I also intended to post this several days ago, but my internet has decided to pretty much die since thursday/friday. For example, you would have a considerable amount of trouble with the law enforcement agencies (you're effectively kidnapping kids under the law in most of the houses, even if the kids request you pick them up). Also, the fact that you're kids to begin with. To pilot a starship and successfully navigate space would require some reasonable levels of education that children simply would be extremely unlikely to possess, especially ones you just "extracted" off the streets and from slums etc.
On top of that, being kids, I really don't think you would last long at all on any unlawful or even Zoner station without any support network (friends/family/gangs), aka you would have been kidnapped and sold into slavery very quickly. Do you have any idea how much money it would cost to run and maintain your starships? Where would you even get your money from? Where would you get your ships from? You stole ALL of them? Highly unlikely, and if you did you would have ended up making some serious enemies amongst criminals (since you would find it extremely difficult to steal ships from lawful organisations). Kids stealing fighters and bombers would anger and embarass a lot criminals/law agencies/both and would not leave you much in the way of choices when it comes to bases to rearm and repair, assuming you could even afford to do so.
Assuming you bought all your stuff, again, where are you getting all the money? You're kids. Pirates/criminals/merchants etc wouldn't do business with kids. You might find a few unscrupulous individuals who would, but these are just as likely to capture you and sell you into slavery than actually sell you anything, and even if they did they'd demand a high price tag on anything they sold. And where do you get the money? Sure, your initial character (leader of the faction) resorted to the old cliche "I stole my ship!", but you can't realistically use that for every single character. Ships cost millions of credits (in RP you could say its really only a few hundred k for cheap ships, but still) and you're picking up poor waifs and runaways off the streets of planets. Hardly wealthy individuals, and you'd have no private investors or secret funding.
Quote:Well, I should ease your worries right now. We do not expect to be known to anyone at start or later, and even those who would hear about us would most likely not take us seriously, this applies to police etc. We do not go against factions because rephack makes them red, it just means that we do not like them, and thus we try to avoid them if possible. Your reactions to our factions are your decisions only, we don't want to (neither we could!) force you to see us as enemies and hunt us down, anyway as you said you have a million more pressing problems to take care of than roaming kids. So we have no specified enemies or friends yet, as you can see our diplomacy part is plain blank (FAQ) and we are not attacking lawfuls just because they are there, if they do not bug us we will not go "ragin trigger happy adults of Sirius" most of people roleplay around. The rep ensures our members will not go to stations where in rp we don't want to go to
You know, I would have thought you could trust your members to act responsibly enough to not dock on bases they aren't supposed to because of faction RP, even if your IFF/ID/game mechanics allows you to do so. If you can't trust them to even dock only at bases allowed by your faction RP, how can you expect them to follow the rest of your faction RP? But anyway, I digress.
I know it may seem like nitpicking to you, but these are, I feel, legitimate roleplay concerns that you would need to address before you had a chance of getting this idea as a faction. You may also want to flesh out the faction proposal itself, as its somewhat lacking in detail. I don't want to discourage you or put you off from attempting to create such a faction, but merely to consider the roleplay aspects of the idea you are putting forward.
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