Vagrant Raiders (VR-)

[Kazinsal]

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.

Like Thexare said, yeah, the moment I saw a cap8 gunboat I decided to talk my way out of a potentially sticky situation.

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?

The implication was not intentional, but does do me the favour of giving me a reason to explain how the VR and the Natio are connected.

The Vagrant Raiders are, have been, and always will be at the core, a paramilitary. They're structured like a military, and operate like a military, but they're no official government-run force; they're independent of the democratic process. They're irregular. They raid vagrantly, the saying goes.

The Raiders are the founding group of the Natio, and the force uniting it. They are still, however, run independently of the government. In fact, they run the government more than the government runs them; the leader of the Raiders has a seat in the meritocracy as the Minister of Relations, handling the government's foreign affairs. The other ministers do not (and cannot) exercise control over the Vagrant Raiders. The only other minister with connections in the Vagrant Raiders is the Minister of Intelligence, who is usually the leader of Merak Squadron (the operational wing of the Octavarium Intelligence Commission; you can functionally compare them to the LSF Department of Homeland Security).

Somewhere down the line, there will definitely be other players other than VR command players playing ministers and running the Natio. The only one who will be able to run the VR's day-to-day operations is the Minister of Relations, as they happen to not only be the diplomatic representative of the Natio, but also the leader of its military.

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Retired, permanently.