Judicial Order

[St.Denis]

I will start with Sotha Sil and his little statement. Ganking single ships – this happened on Friday 5/4/13. The Judges were asked, by the LPI, to help out with a problem of some Pirates. They responded by send out a group of Fighters and 1 Bomber and followed the LPI’s lead. From what I gathered, as I arrived at the end of the battle, there were a GB and Destroyer near Alcatraz. The fight ended with the destruction of both enemy ships and the loss of 2 Judge Fighters. The GB was Mors Veau and the other ship was [AR]Lythrilux.

Now, I don’t know which ship Sotha was in charge of, as some people seem to have Alt Forum Accounts. But if you look at the Rogue Bounty Board at the recent screen shots of claims from Le Pew (the Judge kills where from this battle) the Judges are in Fighters and are mainly concentrating on the GB. If you look up to the kill of BHG Lux Ryder, look at how many Unlawfuls are in the group and how many Lawfuls there are! This battle started with the Pirates outnumbering the ‘good guys’ and eventually the tide of the battle changed (look closely at the 4 shots from that battle nicely presented by LePew). Neutrality! I don’t think we have said that we are maintaining neutrality with Pirates (maybe you know something I don’t!).

And if this isn’t the incident you were referring to then I apologise.


Now on to the Reavers.

I don’t understand your reference to “retconning should be avoided”. Please can you explain what you are referring to?

Now both of you refer to us not getting involved, in fights, with Unlawfuls, when LPI and BHG are being ‘ganked’ (hmm that word again!). Let me give you some history.

1) That fight we were involved in on Friday – we were asked by the LPI to assist. We gladly assisted and once the battle was ended the LN and LPI involved returned to NY, as we did, but yet again not one of the Judges were paid for our assistance. There are people out there that are ‘Honourable’ and do pay us when we get involved. These people we are more than willing to help at anytime. As per our ID payment must be due for us to be involved. Maybe we should ask for payment before we get involved but we assume that the debt will be honoured.

2) I have, as have other Judges, been attacked by Pirates whilst the LPI/LN/BHG have just sat there and watched. I was just recently attacked by a Pirate and his/her Freelancer ‘friend’. This started off as a bit of RP. The Pirate sat along the side of Trenton where the guns could not shoot him. An LPI came along and then promptly disappeared. A BH was sat outside Manhattan (he wasn’t afk). Neither of these did anything to the Pirate and even when the Pirate and his friend attack me the BH just sat and watched. But, hey, it is all part of the game regardless of in or out of RP!

3) We were asked to help LNS with some Pirates who were camped, in California, at the NY/Cali JG. We went, but seemingly the LNS ship never turned up, when we got there we were met by a few Outcasts, which we engaged, but surprise! Surprise! Within a few minutes a whole group of Pirates, Outcasts and Reavers turned up in a mixture of Fighters and GBs. Nice ambush! We later heard from some of our sources that it was a set up.

4) We have been asked to help in fights where LNS Capital Ships have been ‘swarmed’ by Fighters and Bombers. We have duly turned up to the fight and somehow the Capital Ships have managed to ‘accidently’ kill a few of the Judges ships but spookily enough none of the enemy ships. Maybe I should put this down to mere coincidence!

5) We, during one of our Wednesday Training Sessions, agreed to escort Bowex from Bretonia to Liberty once we had finished training. We duly set off from NY and (oh the coincidence of it!) we were beset upon by a group (yes here they come again!) Pirates, Outcasts and Reavers. Now I wonder how they knew that we were leaving our ‘seats’ at Newark and where we were heading. Hmm we must be the unluckiest group in the whole GAME! So that ended ‘spoiling’ a bit of RP that one of the Judges had set up. (not that we ever RP!)

I am not accusing anybody in particular but I know there are Groups of people who seem to have permanently opened multiple Skype chats from different Factions. Some of the Judges also happen to be in some of these ‘Chats’ as are people who are ‘friendly’ with us. We ‘hear’, one way or the other, that the chatter becomes animated when the Judges are around in large groups. We can ‘see’ certain Characters suddenly ’logging on’. Now if this isn’t Meta-gaming and certain people trying to ‘spoil’ others enjoyment of the game I don’t know what is!

As for the LR Bounty on the Judges (which a few people have jumped on the proverbial bandwagon), this was set up on a pretty slim pretext by somebody who in his own words “did it to **** off the Judges”. We have lived with it and Yes it did **** us off! But we have carried on nevertheless!

So if at times we don’t feel like helping others that is our prerogative! It may or may not be in RP but so is a lot or what our ‘adversaries’ do to cause the Judges harm.

And finally I and the Leaders of the Judges read all the posts. We try to answer those that bring up legitimate points requiring an answer.

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