JUNKER CONGRESS

[worldstrider]

We would have standard Junker allies and enemies and fly mod allowed ships. Nothing new there. Obviously we would develop alliances/hostilities with player run factions as the situation required.

As to aggression, here's what I meant:

Had a lane hacker stop a Junker character. That particular LH faction had an RP agreement to allow free passage and trade for one another. The particular LH decided that "didn't count for him" and set upon my freighter with his bomber.

I had no Junker network to call for help with and obviously can't muster a rousing CSV counterattack on him with another char. I did have a deal with a LR but obviously couldn't ask them to attack the Lane Hackers.

In fact, if we had a conflict with any of those allied with the Outcasts, we would probably expect no aid from any of the allies in that group. We would be on our own.

I have had a few edgy moments as a Junker with a couple of Corsairs--the potential for one-on-one strife is there. Outcasts I have gotten along well with. Yet an individual on a given day could push things. Had an Outcast try to pirate my cardamine freight in Alpha once as another example.

The ability to respond to things like this is what I am referring to. Not declaring "war on the Outcasts" or "War on the Corsairs". I think a lot of our "official" warships would simply be eagles, collectors and civilian bombers.

Junkers "being on their own" is fine but they have a home system, shipyards, stations throughout Sirius and standard fighter and freighter designs--some advanced alien technology--plus relations with all but one of the most powerful houses and faction groups in Sirius. That can't be the result of a bunch of guys having nothing to do with one another and hauling scrap metal in second rate fighters.

It's also unfair to say, "What exactly are you going to rp?" It's simple, Junkers--working together and helping other Junkers. What we do in the day to day and the ideas we pursue outside of that will be individual rp decisions of individual players.

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