The Commonwealth

[Enkidu]

Oh for the love of all is good (and evil), finally! Just by saying you won't use caps, you already have my unquestionable support. Not because I hate caps (I personally love them, and they're more or less the only ships that I can use decently), but nowadays it seems people is measuring faction success by the amount of big ships they're able to d**kwave around.

An evil organization that uses brains and money instead of pewpew is something that really really REALLY should have been in the game earlier I still have to meet any of you, but I admit the Taus aren't exactly my favourite playground. I'm looking forward to any chance to meet you guys.

Kudos and likewise We have a rule here; if you're going to fly any ship: do it for RP purposes. Snubs and transports quite possibly don't require huge pages of Rp to justify their purchase, liners maybe, but high-profile, high manpower, high-influence ships such as caps certainly do. I think the last time one of our members brought a CW tagged Corvo, we had about three RP posts concerning exactly why we did it, the logistics of being able to support such a vessel under the Freeport's already strained logistical capabilities, etc (we eventually used it as an enormous flying creche instead of a warship ).

Whilst we do use cruisers (yes, Zoner cruisers are OP but we don't plan on attempting to storm Java or the like), we rarely ever actually find reasons to log one. In fact, I see more CW members in light fighters than in any other craft whenever I log with these guys; if you fly a squadron of light snubs to Rp encounters; people are genuinely more likely to Rp (as opposed to shoot) at you than if you just block their view with an armada of bloodthirsty Nephillims all angrily spamming the /stuck command.

Our Rp reasoning for this is that (as Zoners) the Commonwealth is going to hold practically zero interest in wars of conquest/defence/ideology, since we lack the territory to enforce forcibly and we maintain a somewhat relâché attitude to contraband smuggling, along similar lines to the Zoners of vanilla. Commonwealth methodology is to preserve Zoner neutrality through impartiality (striking clandestine deals with no above-the-level favour towards one faction or another). Remember, whilst the Commonwealth are inherently risk-takers InRp, they're also cowards. If threatened with military force they're much more likely to run away than, say, spam with vast InRp unsustainable Armada of Nephs.

Edit: Now I think of it, we only have 1 cruiser.

---

THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)

Information | Recruitment | Message Dump |
Feedback | Diplomatic channel

(Links pending redevelopment).