Closed Factions IDs= Terrorist IDs?

[Dane Summers]

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)

Perhaps, but I don't believe that. Its a basic principal of human nature that those who find they can get whatever they want, will inevitably want more. You've already said that you have eyes for Cambridge and Stuttgart, and its accepted lore that the Corsairs are pushing further and further out from Gamma.

Face it, your imperialistic. I have no doubt that should you suddenly have everything you need, you will find other things that your lacking, and then take those by force.

As for invading O52 - our system is full of hostile npc's, it was pretty rough place to send a cap in. It still happens tho, but not as much as it does in Gamma, so i'll give you that point.

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

Before this new ID, we were restricted (contentedly) to stopping Cardimine and Slaves, which I'm sure you'll agree, is detrimental to Sirius - a slaver or a drug dealer is not a military target, but eliminating there cargo, or themselves if they refuse to drop it, is a fundamentally positive thing. No slaver or drug dealer is "just an honest hard working joe"

Now, a ptrans full of artifacts isnt a huge deal. I'll admit it. Destroying those only hurts the economy of the Corsair's, which is beneficial to our war effort, but it also hurts the people, who, believe it or not, we do actually care about. I view it in the same way as I view dropping an atomic bomb on a civilian population center - by hurting the civilian populace of a nation, you invariably damage its ability to make war. But, it's killing a whole lot of innocent folks.

Truth being, whether or not we do start gunning for artifact haulers, I dont really feel like we need too. And assuming we do, and it becomes part of our MO, doesnt mean I'm gonna start headhunting ptrans in a Storm, just for a blue message.
Neither myself, or my character, see's it as necessary. What I do see as necessary is flying into gamma, trying to talk some corsairs onto our side, get the same old "no, die commie" and then getting ganked by a dozen legate's\ossie's.

*shrug*

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