Liberty Rules

[Praetyre]

Well, I'd say it's realistic for the house governments to act like that. The RM does it, the KNF does it, and we, as part of the same RP "family", do it. People who want to RP pirates are "restricted" by legal penalties or attacks from doing so, but they are an essential part of our RP opposition.

The Rheinland Military is the second oldest faction in Discovery. They prohibit use of their ships and even other players from trying to police their own space and impose harsh penalties for most crimes. They were probably once criticised for it and admittedly they are a fascist group, but as I will later describe, their behaviour is common among fascists and non-fascists. People have gotten used to Rheinland acting like a military, and I think people will get used to us (LN) acting like a Navy.

In Freelancer, Trent was granted access to LSF ships on the basis of working on a freelance basis with them. I cannot remember a single instance in the campaign where a pirate flew a Navy ship or vice versa. I cannot recall a single NPC I have ever encountered which flew in such a manner. Freelancer NPCs use Civilian ships, also.

If you could give me an example of pirates using Navy ships or other such things, I might be able to discuss this more "in context".

Freelancer will differ from our world, but some things are transcultural. Laws against murder, theft, fraud, and the like are nearly universal. Equally, financially successful militaries in the midst of hostility and war do not sell off top-of-the-line ships to people who, if we go by game mechanics, merely need not be outright enemies of Liberty to purchase them for a sufficient price. It's a sort of "common sense law" or "common law", a sort of thing that will apply to the majority of civilizations.

The thing is, now the SA is going to become LN, we'll be the Navy as opposed to half the Navy, like the KNF is the KNF and the RM is the RM. If we don't assert our authority as the Navy, the Navy, and THE Navy, we'll end up with independent-run anarchy, which many have rightly criticised (killing scofflaws and fining people 500k for parking violations is grossly inappropriate and unfair). Neither of these factions permit use of their ships without special permission and neither of them permit attempting to police under their authority. I think this is a good direction for us, for it is a military direction that any RL military, be it libertarian, democratic, socialist, fascist or monarchial would take.

There are two situations, the Raven's Talon and Havok Bomber, both of which are privately manufactured and sold on civilian bases, that will not be considered theft, and may be freely used.

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