[BU] - Bundschuh

[Gryph]

I just wanted to point a couple things out. When you say, "Students", "intellectuals", and so on you're describing how the Bundschuh was one hundred and sixty-two years of unceasing revolutionary conflict ago. Every single one of those intellectuals is dead. His children are dead. His grandchildren are dead.

When you say "guerrillas" you're describing the wrong end of the Bundschuh's militant arm - the end that doesn't exist except in roleplay. Guerrillas do not fly big, expensive military space ships marked with distinctive ID codes. In fact, they don't fly spaceships at all, though they might make use of them on occasion to transport personnel and materiel or to enable saboteurs to carry out their mission. In other words, they have no place in Freelancer gameplay.

Over time, however, guerrilla units inevitably transform into regular military units (if they survive). Guerrillas, on their own, cannot hope to conquer a country. In our case, all Rheinland would need to do is cut off imports to a rebellious province with its powerful star navy (or, on a more local scale, with its powerful army, backed by a star navy that rules the skies, preventing anyone else from using an army effectively). Who would break the blockade? Politically aware peasants with looted rifles? Of course not. A space navy disrupts a space navy. An army crushes an army.

The [BU] is regular military. It flies military vessels with weapons openly displayed. It operates under a distinct IFF code. And, as regular military, it is tasked with one very simple thing: annihilate all overt military and paramilitary threats to the Bundschuh in the most expeditious manner possible. While tactical concerns may dictate an expeditious manner that at times does not include engaging in battle, tactical concerns are decided according to the natures of the forces available for any particular conflict. And those are determined in game. From my point of view, if you play a military faction and you don't want to take advantage of every opportunity to probe, harass, disrupt, and destroy the enemy, and you don't want every opportunity to be exploited against you, that, not "PVP-whoring", is Out Of Roleplay.