' Wrote:very good point, thank you for that...
however most outcasts are simple thugs, (admittedly rather stylish ones, but thugs none the less) who do their don's bidding and that is all. however i do agree with you in most respects.
im not against the idea at all, and i love a bit of corruption and intrigue, however it probably wouldn't have the teeth to be effective (affecive???? i can never remember) and wouldn't be able to enforce its rulings.
"The Outcasts conduct a lucrative drug smuggling operation, using a network of secret jump holes to escape detection and transport their product into the hearts of Bretonia, Rheinland, and Liberty. Their primary partners in crime are the poorly organized and not-to0-quick Liberty Rogues, who are now addicted to Cardamine and totally dependent on their Outcast masters.
The money is then used to buy power and influence throughout the Sirius Sector. The Outcasts oversee a shadowy network of bribes and blackmail that rises to the highest levels of government, and through which they can stifle potential competition or stonewall the authorities."
Anyone saying an Outcast or other unlawful doesn't care about lawful political bodies isn't trying to RP enough.
And simple thugs might carry out orders, but they're not fools. They have sensibilities. Everyone has a political slant. Poorly educated soldiers in Iraq might not call the shots but the all have ideas and opinions about why they're there. You gotta give your characters a motivation beyond bloodshed and greed. There can't be that many sociopaths in the universe.
