what about an additional IMG affliated faction?

[cabinn]

Cap Whorring:

Ok I must come clean. I have been capship free during my time hear on the Disco... until last night! I bought an Albatross. Why? I created an IMG trader a while back and have been making good RP runs. In doing that I made a few runs to Freeport 4. Blessing and Curse - we have a Freeport! Frequently I have run across numerous pirates hanging out in front of the Freeport pirating and mining NPC's. the Zoners have a no fighting rule near their Freeports and I think we need the same. The difference between us and the Zoners is We have enemies. I have been pirated in front of Freeport 4. I gladly pay pirates - but it seemed wierd to do it right at our own base. So I wanted to create a Cruiser character just to pop out occasionally and scare off the riff-raff. Last night I bought the Albatross and went to Magellan to properly fix the rep. I launched from Free4 and there sat a Hacker pirate "mining NPC" trains. The conversation went roughly like this:

Pirate: Whoa! that is a BIG ship matey!

Me: Aye!

(i watch the pirate blow up an NPC train - didn't catch the faction)

Me: Are you mining transports right here in front of my base?

Pirate: Ummm... it was a gun mistake, I misfired... sorry...

(Pirate heads to nearest trade lane and flees leaving all the booty floating)

Me: In the future, please stow the guns around the Freeport.



Long story to say we need big ships to guard our outlying bases and key shipping lanes - but we have to remember - we aren't the police and we aren't the military. The Bretonians won't like us parading around in warships. But they need to know we have them in case they decide to blockade Cardiff or South Shields. BUT we need to only have a couple of them online at one time.

So I have joined the ranks of the capshipers!

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