Reaver Mercenary Co.

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@Wuselkobold:
Medieval mercs had the ability to have as good as equipment as their enemies and fight them man to man. There is a large difference when professional armies have access to much more powerful technology than mercs do in futuristic/modern armies (i.e. cruisers and battleships). In my mind, this means the modern mercenary is playing more of an augmentation, then front-line role.

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The thing is, in Freelancer, everybody is equipped with similar levels of technology, civilians have access to codenames, Sabres and Supernovas, which are on par with their military counterparts. They might not be able to field capital ships but, from a roleplay point of view, what would be cheaper? Loosing a Battleship worth several hundred million credits, its crew and all that to a highly trained and well organised, yet small and hard to track down at the same time gang of mercenaries or throwing a couple of millions their way so they wander off and kill your neighbours or even enemies men and being able to still field said warship against your foes yourself?
I'm not comparing the reavers to a full military force able of bringing an entire house to its knees, but they for sure are able to cause a lot of damage, which might be easier to prevent in paying them off, instead of taking up arms.

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