Phoenix - (\^/)

[EisenSeele]

So let me get this straight. You've got yourselves a ship based on the hulk of a centuries old obsolete ship at best. So, the GMG has databanks on what they could find and reverse engineer - which is a very difficult and rarely successful process at best, given that there are a huge wealth of captured and wrecked Rheinland/Kusari/Gallic/Libertonian/Bretonian/Corsair/Outcast ships everywhere for enemies of whatever faction interests you to find, with a profound lack of actual viable examples of said reverse engineering happening.

In the end, you've got yourself what is either basically just a Zoner battleship in the hull plating of a Rheinland BS, or an incredibly obsolete Rheinland battleship with more modern Zoner weapons. Either way, you're better off with a Zoner battleship than with a Rheinland one - for any purpose other than forcing Rheinland to become hostile to you for possessing what appears to be a Rheinland battleship (functional or not).

You say that you don't care about diplomacy from Rheinland because some indie attacked you - and your angry tirade at the actual official faction of Rheinland resulted in a "we really can't do much about our indies being ponces" thing. From an RP perspective, fair enough. From a player standpoint, that's not really very cool at all. From an RP standpoint, you taking one of our hulls and claiming it for your own appears to have a tiny bit of justification (unless you're pretending that this is an actual modern Rheinland BS, to which I'll have to say you're silly) - but from a player perspective, we weren't consulted and we're not very happy about someone messing around with our ships without consulting us - especially given that you gents basically told us to piss off before.

I can tell you where this can go from here in both a player and a character perspective.

As players, if you don't consult us beforehand about using our tech, we'll be very unhappy with you. It's unfortunate, but we're also humans and prone to silly grudges - and while we won't be making alts to make your day as crappy as possible (apparently some do that sort of thing), it'll mean that trying to do anything with us will become that much more difficult - and contribute to the bad blood within the community.

As characters, I can almost guaranty you that if you fly ANYWHERE with that, Rheinland WILL know sooner or later. You've seen how annoying the RFP response was to your disrespectful communiques to us (which is just a passive thing that the RFP is known and loved for) accusing us of murdering your civilians (again, we really can't do much to control our Indies, and it's poor form for you to consider the conduct of indies to reflect on an official faction). I can honestly tell you that making us hostile to you won't be very fun - especially since the BDM (who will be sent first to repossess the classified tech and ship first) doesn't do anything half way - and given that if the BDM fails, the rank and file [RM] and RNC will be the next to be called in.

All in all, it's not going to be worth the trouble of you having your vanity project continue the way it is unless you initiate a dialogue with the Rheinland lawfuls on both a character and player level so that we can settle on a happy medium regarding this, especially if you're planning on going official - or you scrap the project.

---

FEEDBACK