-[Cartel]- The Cartel

[Benjamin]

Name: bit odd. I know you've got the logos and tags etc all set up now so doubt you'll change, but calling yourself smugglers coalition is a bit like calling yourself 'crime gang arrest pls'. The kings of smuggling in vanilla branded themselves as protectos of kusari, or whatever hogosha means, and junkers, the waste management cover so favoured by irl mafia + italian crime gangs. Some cover, some euphemism etc would be nice rp imo. Also, coalition - to me that's a bunch of established smugglers deciding to pool their resources and be loose allies. Was thinking, with the rules and codes etc., it sounds a bit like a guild. Bunch of vaguely similar (organisationally) groups in vanilla are guilds, but there's none new in disco iirc, and that's sad. If you combined the two, to be some equivalent of 'independent traders guild', you've got yr trace of credibility and legitimacy to maybe get in cosier with lawfuls. Which would be v cool imo, best thing a smuggler group could do.

Allies: makes sense obv to not tie yourself to eg the OCs yeah. But the junkers, their vanilla lore is exactly what your stated goal is - cosy with everyone, legit cover, tolerated by lawfuls etc. I know it's hard to remember, washed away by seas of powertrading indies and a weird obsession with making ships out of junk and being super junky because the faction has the word junk in the name (where's my synth foods ship made out of food?), but it would fit your gang, give you lots of bases and lore/diplo hooks, the p-train (smuggler vessel de rigeur ofc), and at the cost of making flights through kusari a little frosty (read: exciting + activity generating) and cost you the option of trading with the xenos (oh waa waa). But yeah FL works too and is easier;)
Keeping your options open is smart, though - it's not just pirates who like to smuggle. FL or Junker, I wouldn't mind banging out some deals as Cryer to keep us dosed with counterfeit software and gaian wildlife and have you distribute synth pot in exchange.

Anyway yeah, a heavily rp'd smuggler group is something I would approve of.

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