RE: The sanction of the Hess/Bret Combined Forces BattleGroup

[AeternusDoleo]

If I may ask the Hessians, here, openly. What was the motivation for going into Cambridge, other then "let's join in and pew a Sair base already under attack". How did the Hessians
a) Know about the attack
b) Know about the base. While Cambridge is listed on their ZoI, it's debatable they'd have scouts going 40K up midsystem.
c) Know that the BAF wouldn't summarily boot them out of Bretonian Core space as a non-Bretonian cap without permit (especially since, if this IRPly happened - Rheinland would have reason to embargo Bretonia -yet again-)

If the motivation for it is nothing more then "there's a base, let's send every heavy we have to the very edge of our operational zone and pew the snot out of a base that's already caving under the attack of the natives", then you really have to question if your actions were justified. It'd have been very easy for you guys to blockade the Cambridge jump hole and ensure that no reinforcements got through - that'd have been a death sentence for the Sairs still at the base, as well as the base itself.

That said, I'm not sure the sanction was wise the way it was done (I was one of the people who filed a report). Right now, the final action is left to the players that felt wronged - the ships involved have been thrown into Corsair space, needing to travel quite a while and being defenseless while doing so. It allows the Sair capships (many of whom are piloted by people I cannot call mature) to simply pick them off and steal their equipment. Which will just end up creating more OORP resentment and player hate, not to mention Q_Q. If you want them to lose stuff, just CTE750 them into oblivion. But as far as I'm concerned, a stern warning and a CTE750 threat would have sufficed.

I do not advise restoring that station. It would have caved eventually anyway, would just have taken longer and spawned more fights around the base - which would have been more enjoyable for all involved. The position of the base in open space is bad now the shields do not grant immunity. I would advise the Sairs to be sneaky if they establish a new base - and do so inside a dense roid field. Dublin, New London, Cambridge, Manchester... all of those places have suitable fields. Rarely are the roidfields patrolled.

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