Judcial Order

[avenger1024]

As per things such as Tag and ID. Psypimple was correct, however I can see where it does not match the dummy post properly (http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17044) which was the initial template used when putting this together. So allow me to try and fix

Tags are as follows

Cadet-playername
Judge-playername

Variations around the terms are listed within the Judicial Rank section of the post. We do apologize for the oversight. We thought that was made clear by the rank section.

The problem is that you need a single tag before the ships in order for both easy player recognition of your faction as well as things such as the admin's activity tracker. Having multiple tags for a single faction makes such things much harder on everyone.

As per diplomacy, I think the reason the concept is so difficult to understand is because we do in fact reject, the standard "Must shoot this guy, must ally this guy" system. This works within the original vanilla game because the story is rigid even if the game itself was fairly open. Zoner neutrality as a concept works really because they are providing resources to factions with in RP that need them keeping the pirates off them and the lawful governments don't truly care as long as they are not violating the laws of their space.
You have it about 2/3rds of the way with this statement. We will respect the laws of any space we are in. We will assist those in need but there are some elements that are not quite right. As has been mentioned we have helped LN and LPI on a few occasions. This has been the majority of the time in hunting an individual who attacked a civilian but we have refused to assist in operations where they are fighting simply because they ran into each other.

What happens the first time that you end up shooting say a Rheinland cruiser that is stopping traders within Liberty? Do you expect that the Rheinland government will go "Oh well its no big deal. They were simply upholding Liberty's laws"? Because, at least from my perspective, that will instantly put you at odds with their government. I believe that was one of the points that JihadJoe was trying to point out. No faction is going to allow you to shoot up their ships simply because you are upholding someone else's laws.

In contrast, the pirate ID states

'€¢ Can demand cargo and credits from lawful and unlawful ships, and attack them if they do not comply.
'€¢ Cannot use any transports with more than 3,600 cargo.
Does that mean they are not allowed to engage accept under this condition or to defend themselves?

Yes it does. Unless the pirate has made a demand or they are attacked first (or a target attempts to run from an obvious pirate attempt), a generic pirate ID'd player may not engage in combat.