Pirate ID

[Leppy]

You sarcasm is inappropriate as I am aware of the situation. And mafias are known to hire outsiders from time to time.

There's a difference between hiring an outsider for a job or 2 (which Rogues, for example, still can do) and letting any and all outsiders who feel like it use your headquarters, which only has limited supplies, as a permanent home for attacking potential "clients" of theirs, not cutting them into the profit, and drawing even more attention from the police/army/navy/etc to the area. If an outsider wishes to gain all of the benefits of staging from their base, they would be forced to join the faction.

TL/DR: If you want to pirate in Liberty staging off of rogue or hacker bases, join the stupid faction! (And I mean use their ID. You don't necessarily need to join the official faction of course).

The most exciting part here is "rogues moving against pirate IDed indies as a united front while they are not united for an inch"

Except that back then, the official faction RP'd the Rogues as having moved towards more of an united front due to leaders taking charge and bringing the rogues together. So it actually made perfect sense with the RP that the banded (well more than before) together Rogues would push their competition/unwanted hanger-ons out the door.