Judicial Order

[Thyrzul]

Now stop me if I am wrong but my understanding is you at the least are with the Council (At the most, I was told you run it but I do not know if that is/was still the case). From RP, The Council while not large, has a significant force that can threaten the GRN at the rear while the bulk of their forces are committed to the invasion front. You also run hostilities with the OC do to a very vague situation that the OC attacked Council forces in O-80 (Again stop me if I am wrong but best I can tell from the reads, this was just in the Council RP and the OC simply have gone along with it leaving wide room on why they attacked you).

Now my perspective as a Judge, we have no direct relations with the OC primary group the 101st or yours but we are aware of both. As an outside third party, we can help negotiate a temporary truce on the assumption that the attack on your forces was because they saw you as invaders in their space. The Outcasts could sell weapons and equipment to the Council, while the OC are given a small base of operations in Council space which they can use to conduct raids on Gallia shipping. Lets face it, the Council already has precedent for allowing pirates to do just that as you work with the UC, Maquis and most importantly, the Gallic Brigands who already have limited relations with the OC.

This new relationship buys you renewed power, the OC a new hunting ground for supplies, and for us, a backdoor of information which we can use to advise the militaries on the other side of the war. We also gain relations with both the Council and OC which we can use towards our own goals later on. Everyone gains something on the short term and possibly on the long term. It also gives all our groups room to RP later on for further "war" activities and post war relations.

Outcasts deal with Cardamine and look at Gallia as a brand new market to spread their drugs. The Council highly dislikes them for this, and thus wages war with them to stop their influence getting into the Kingdom. Dealing with Cardamine is a huge part of the nature of the Maltese, and the perspective of The Council about it will not change, so it is unlikely that their relation will change much in the near future.

(This is pretty much the InRP reason, but I suspect OoRP reasons behind this too: basically the only enemies we had were the Gallic Royalty, authorities, not even the corporations, as we are The Council. When the GRN/GRP went inactive, the more trigger-happy members of The Council has been left without anything to shoot. To boost the activity on their part too, people back then had to find an other enemy. The Outcasts seemed to be perfect, given that back those days their activity was quite high, and that it can be well backed up InRP.)

And about dealing with "pirates", the UC are a maffia and we have no deals with them currently, Maquis are revolutionaries, same goals of us, different means to go by, and we have to rely on the Gallic Brigands due to financial reasons, as they have a significant presence on the Gallic black market. However, given our expansion to Sirius and the potential market Bretonia and Liberty provides us, I'm not sure our relations with the Brigands will last long (note however that this is still an assumption yet).

Given the points you listed, what you wrote could have been done, but you missed some key elements, by which it can't be done. Reading up a few things and actively taking part in the roleplay itself are two different things. However, if you intend to make contact with The Council in the future, feel free to do so.

Back on topic:
You said you are flying around for like a year already. Most of this time of yours you spent in Liberty. Why so surprised about ganks and rule breaks then? Liberty is famous for it's high pop concentration, and thus famed for lack of RP from many players. I'm not saying there are no good roleplayers, just that there are many who can't or just yet to grasp the concept of roleplay/fairplay. You said you are recently operating in Kusari too, that's good to hear. (I myself don't go to Kusari at all, so I can't be sure about what you do there.) But for a UN-like faction, I haven't seen you in Bretonia yet, haven't seen you in the Taus yet, will not talk about other regions of space as I don't really go elsewhere, and also I guess Gallia is not an option, at least not from a non-hostile perspective. So far these are my experiences.

And about the skype conference call, no, I don't think it is a good idea to open up just two hours to speak based on timezones. The community is barely that dynamic, and that is why we have these forums for, so written thoughts remain for long.

About the community numbers: 11000 ppl? Where? I don't think I've ever seen this much people on the forums. My guess would be around 1000 at it's best, yep, that is one digit less. And from that, 27 cared to comment on this subject, as you said. And from that, 22 had negative criticism (basing my claims on your numbers as I can't be arsed to count them now). To me it means that the rest does not give a crap about it, or just finds their own thoughts expressed by another similar thinking person in this thread already. To me that does not mean that 22 from the 1000 (or 11000) thinks "your roleplay is bad", nor that 995 from 1000 thinks the same. It's just simply 22 from 27.

Just a few thoughts.

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