' Wrote:The problem being - you demand and then take by force from non-combatants, because you feel your society is more deserving, and are convinced of that fact. If you met a freighter captain barely making ends meet, no doubt his struggling doesn't mean a damn to you - and widowing his wife and orphaning his kids would make a corsair laugh. So yeah, i see a problem with that.
We don't pirate because we feel we deserve more, we pirate because we need to do it and because, like Blubba said, our exports have been declared contraband for reasons that elude me.
' Wrote:As for the SCRA - the point of our RP is that while we believe our goals are noble, we go about it in twisted ways. It's unfortunate, but it reinforces that there is no good guys in sirius - and in war, no side is just, because war makes monsters of everyone.
As for "killing for sport" - that sounds like your speaking from a corsair perspective again. Were a military at war with military targets. That includes the corsairs, who are, in essence, a military\warrior society.
We do not, and will not shoot people who aren't military targets.
I'll admit looking at things from rose-tinted faction glasses, but only if you will.
A Ptrans full of artifacts is a military target? How about a BWT or pirate train? Not all the Corsairs are "pirates and murderers". If you only want to shot military targets shoot the combat ships only. How is an artifact hauler any different than a Daumann train? It's pilot works for a living, just like all the other traders in Sirius
' Wrote:The corsairs may have begun as a nation of starving orphans - but thats not what they are now - they are brutal, selfish, racist warrior society, completely unconcerned with anyone but themselves.
If given the option of ruling Rheinland, I have no doubt they would do so, only because they would see themselves as better rulers then the inherent rheinland government - at which point Stuttgart would have the majority of its food sent to crete, and the rheinland working class given over to make corsair tools of war, so as to keep there gains.
So no, I dont buy the "poor abused starving orphans" act for a minute, and no matter how many times you try to sell that particular lame story, it doesn't get any more true.
*shrug* most likely - not the argument im trying to make. I'm explaining why the corsairs are a self-centered, savage, racist society full of murderers and people who take by force.
You are refusing to understand out point of view since I already told you 3 times we do not want to rule anything. The Corsairs have no ambitions or need of Ruling Rheinland, Bretonia, or anything else but our own Empire. Get your head around that already, please. We are the ones invaded by everyone and their monthers, not the other way around. Gamma is raided daily and yet you see no Legates in O52, or New London/New Berlin (except for the occasional lolwuts)
' Wrote:As opposed to a government whose goal is to destroy the current accepted governments, and build anew in there own vision of what they feel is right - does that mean it will be? I doubt it.
Oh yeah, and as for the tech argument - I hear lots of corsairs saying they should have hogosha raba's.
The Raba started as a Corsair ship and we see it as a Corsair ship since it makes a lot more sense to fly it than the Rogue/Molly Ptrans. Finally the devs understood it and the ship is now a green cell to the Corsair ID (no power nerf)
