The Colonial Republic - CR|

[Durandal]

The Colonial Republic has changed a lot since it began on the server. For myself, I fell in love with the lore, the struggle, the seemingly valiant effort of a few against many. And in a lot of ways, some of us took that struggle to heart. For a faction to have existed so long, and endured so much, it'€™s amazing to see how far it'€™s come. While I understand the reasons that led to the collapse of the old faction, I don'€™t look upon it with sorrow, like some do. Its a wonderful opportunity to write a new chapter in its history. In a lot of ways, these changes are to idealise what I always saw CR as being. To me, CR is a nation full of people who have known nothing but loss, yet stood strong against the very real evils in this universe. No matter how hard it got, these people never gave up. They went from a society spanning an entire sector, losing near on their entire population, and having to start anew. There is something deeply heroic about that, and it'€™s that feeling I want to use as the core of what this new CR should be about. To leave behind the idea of '€œSemi\Quasi-Lawfulness'€ and focus on the causes that CR so strongly stood up for. In the end, our hope is to build CR into a fully self-sufficient mini-house - working with, and cooperating with, many different factions and neighbors, but no longer joined at the hip, or dependant on, any other faction like it once was.

All in all, this is a faction for those who want to expand the lore, add something to the book. Role play fighter pilots holding the line against impossible odds. Share in the struggle of people who have lost, but are working for a better tomorrow. For us, the words of Mark Twain are the most fitting: '€œIt'€™s not the size of the dog in the fight, it'€™s the size of the fight in the dog.'€

While I personally agree with this, I have serious doubts about the capabilities of some of your members to play it out properly. Are you willing to fight and die and hold the line even at the cost of giving the enemy a blue message now and then?

I forget who wrote it, but somebody once said something along the lines of, while you're able to roleplay a different personality, a different background, or even stupidity, you can't roleplay intelligence, or skill in the cockpit of a fighter.

I'm not saying you need people capable of leveling half the server, just people who won't care about exploding and won't run circles around a base while pretending to be heroic.