The Ghosts.

[Venture]

Few questions, to start:

What exactly made these guys go AWOL?

Why and how are they managing to target essentially every government of every house?

How are they being supplied, by whom?

How do they recruit?

Where/what is their base of operations?

1) After the award ceremony ended, the taskforce was to be deployed into the Omicrons to catch live nomad specimen for research purposes. Markus Link (The leader) found out that it was a hoax to get some infected agents and soldiers so they could perform experiments on them. Link convinced the team about this, and when they were deployed, they simply changed transponders, cut their transmissions and signals, and escaped into the Sigmas.

2) The Taskforce had gotten prototype and experimental tech from the LSF, when the team escaped, they took it all with them. It included powerful scanners and tracking devices and weapons and ship parts never used before in Liberty.

3) As I haven't updated it yet, they are supplied by Ageira Technologies (NPC faction) They get cash and access to newly made weaponry and technology.

4) The Ghosts usually try to gain the trust of the person they want to recruit, then offer them one day. Usually 96% of those asked accept the offer, those who refuse provide The Ghosts with some intel and cash. The ones who refuse and try to tell someone else, are killed.

5)They don't have a permanent base of operations, they keep moving from place to place to avoid detection. They have at least two border worlds gunboats which are used for extraction of soldiers after a certain mission.

To expand on Savas' points, it might do to start small. For example, limit yourself to a ZoI of Magellan-Leeds-California; those kind of border areas between. In doing this, you would have goals to work toward, like expanding your operations to be able to assassinate members of certain House governments, etc.

Strictly from a RP standpoint (I know it's entirely possible in-game), I think it's unlikely that you'd be BFFs with enough people to pass unrestricted, undetected, and unhindered through House and un/quasi-lawful space. I appreciate the stealth/rogue special ops aspect, but some station along the way would stop you.

SO. That all goes to say: take it easy. Start small, expand from there. It gives you opportunities to strike deals with other factions (to allow the aforementioned traffic), which will lead to further RP opportunities to perform your goals in distant space.

If you start with nothing, that lets you work toward everything! A Sector-wide ZoI may sound excellent and freeing, but speaking from experience, it makes the faction grow dull very quickly.

Otherwise, I think this idea has some really great pulpy potential and I look forward to how you guys develop!

-Edit- And these little relationships that you would have to work and build up would provide a supply line for you!

The Ghosts currently have a Sirius-Wide ZoI, but their operations are limited to Bretonia and Liberty currently due to their size and how inRP expanding their operations would be difficult. The Ghosts are trying to thwart the Gallic from Leeds and from Magellan, and their endless hit list is still there

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