Reaver Mercenary Co.

[SA_Scavenger]

About the blackmailing thing, I don't find it ooRP even slightly. Back in ancient and medieval times, mercenaries were even hired in times of peace on occasion.
Why? Because if they were without employer, they were roaming around, pillaging, plundering and raping to keep themselves fed and entertained.
Local lords payd them because they either didn't have the manpower to fend them off or because paying them was simply cheaper than fighting or being raided over and over again.
So, back to discovery, its most likely much cheaper for the IMG to pay the reavers to kill their enemies than loosing lots and lots of transports full with precious ore to them.
Also being mercenaries doesn't necessarily mean you have to be weak or not numerous, the Landsknechte, for example, were stronger in manpower as some professional armies at times.

You are talking roving armies mate, sort of like the Vikings. They were given the entire North Western part of France to stop their attacks. However, they were an AMRY. I have yet to see a mercenary company hold an entire country at bay with blackmail. Maybe in a war torn African country without a settled military but certainly not any country with a decent or even small organised military like the Corsairs, Outcasts or Houses and their different groups.

In all honesty, if the world truly was freelancer, the Reavers would have been ganked ages ago!

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