Make Coalition Indie ID more better

[Mímir]

Well honestly, screw shooting the pirates and protecting the innocents. There are no innocents if you are not supporting the revolution already! There's enough white knight factions around.

I want to just shoot every un-revolutionary greedy bastard out there, for the revolution of course. Traders included, but I'm not getting my hopes up on that one IC? Pls?

Coalition aren't terrorist ID. If you want to pew folks almost everywhere, get a pirate ID. Or, be a Xeno and do that in Liberty all day.

I am a little baffled that I have to be the one to point out that what one side perceives as terrorism, the other perceives as just revolution. Have people totally forgotten what SCRA was in its heyday? What it is on paper, according to its own lore? I mean these are not even things you'd have to open a history book to find out or be a little keen on sociology in the slightest, why use lazy categories that you clearly haven't thought through?

Can this please not be a thing we don't need another ID that can shoot everything with cruisers.

I never proposed that, I don't care about cruisers. I just want to be able to play Coalition characters the way they were once played, as I think it can add to the mod. Not only is there intellectual legitimacy to be playing Coalition like they once were played, it also gives the Coalition a narrative edge as a political and ideological antagonist to most established powers, rather than being yet another bland "friends with all, especially traders because someone told me money rules the world" faction. It's so limiting for both the imagination and the intellect. There'd actually be a point in making a Coalition character rather than something else. There'd be distinct characteristica and an inherent logic within the society, and that adds depth and atmosphere.

I liked old SCRA better, where you'd have to fight and win against PVP'ers to even get accepted, it was very different, very PVP-heavy. The roleplay was better too, or at least personally I felt more engaged reading the stories after their Insurgents had masterfully torn up my 5K Gold Ore hauler repeadetly. I think a lot of people forget what SCRA was. Even the (old?) Insurgent infocard gave a good idea of the kind of fear SCRA prided themselves in striking in folks.

I don't see why there can't be room for both.

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