Reaver Mercenary Co.

[Jihadjoe]

Everyday you are changing your allegiances. Back and forth, back and forth. It ain't right.

I prefer to call this shufflin'.

Jokes aside... while a mercenary may have to choose sides, the reason behind that is not out of any sense of right or wrong, nor is it out of business mindedness. Sure, a long term contract is excellent, and something that anyone who works in any business is going to like. A mercenary can expect to piss people off by doing what they do. Afterall, they shoot people for money... It's the actions a merc undertakes in the line of work that force a merc to take a side.

However, how people respond to someone else's actions is their responsibility alone.

The Corsairs, for example, I think are now an off limits faction. Not because we won't work for them, but because they want us to die. We, as mercenaries, have pissed them off by shooting them.

Great news! In an oorp sence this pleases me just as much as a group paying us to switch sides.

Until factions react to us in a way that will require we end up needing to gain a little loyalty, then it's not the best business sense to have it. One eventuality is that our options for who we choose as employers will gradually diminish, if people choose to react in a way that isn't trying to buy us. I've got no problem with that eventuality, and I don't think any of the other reavers will do either, not that I'm in much of a position to speak for them personally.

It's down to the people who offer us contracts as to whether they think we're deserving of it or not.

Pardon the garbled nature of the post.

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