Vagrant Raiders (VR-)

[Thexare]

since the VR (nothing personal, guys) isn't exactly worth hitting any more than a juicy Liberty target.

No offense taken. It's nice to have our lack of size sometimes be an advantage.

Just a tip when flying in Rheinland though. If you meet up with a bunch of lawfuls you want to pew, don't start discussing political theory, because we will respond in kind and nobody will get any shooting done. You've seen this already with our hour long chat in Hamburg.

To be completely honest, when the Cap 8 gunboat showed up, we decided pew was not in our best interests. Besides, I (I was VR-Come.As.You.Are) am of the opinion that we should be focusing primarily on hitting shipping, not so much on fighting the military. We don't have the numbers for that.

I've noticed that you're allied to the nation that you're trying to found - implying that you're separate entities. Was this intentional?

This will be addressed in detail by Kazinsal when he gets home from work.

Also, once your mini house is established, do you plan on stepping down with piracy in Rheinland - especially given that Rheinland would probably hold your house responsible for piracy, and could potentially do more damage than any income the VR could generate from piracy in Rheinland?

That's a tricky subject. Especially since we really want to hit Gallia (and by extension their puppets in Kusari). You all are basically stuck in the unfortunate situation of being enemies of someone we're trying to befriend. However, they're both kind of dead, and even if they were more active, we can't really go further afield than the Taus; we have nowhere to base out of.

(which I should work on fixing; changes coming in 87, whenever that's finished, should bring more Gallic trade into Kusari from what I'm gathering, and the politics of it are easily seen already... but I digress)

Command is treating the piracy as a matter of war, though, not profit; interdicting Rheinlandic shipping in support of Liberty's war efforts. Kind of like what the MND do actually. As I said above, we don't really have the numbers to fight the military directly, and many of us are already familiar with the techniques and equipment involved in cargo interdiction operations (that is to say, we're "ex"-pirates.) Therefore, this is the most effective use of our forces.

Were Rheinland more active, I could say we'd actively focus on military supplies, but that runs into another issue and part of the reason the piracy remains: Activity. If we try to limit our Rheinlandic shipping targets even more, that'd limit how much we can do, and between that and a lack of Gallic targets within our operational range, who the hell would we shoot?

Diplomatically, I fully expect it to be a difficult situation and am prepared to deal with it. Unfortunately, we have to account for the realities of gameplay as well; a faction with nothing to do will not last, and would be a waste of the time of everyone involved, both in the faction and out.