Harvester

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I personally am not a harvester, but i do rp with them in-game as a member of this "alliance".

Being machines where the main goal is to harvest "biomaterial". That means humans, nomads, ect ect. Indescriminately harvest ALL bioforms, in the grand scheme of things.

The Zoners are only involved because they "have" or "will help fix" a code that the machines must have to grow. Zoners asked that they be made hostile to Harvesters.

As stated before the harvesters are just a "part" of the faction as a whole, which may have other machines who couldnt give a crap about harvesting anything. They may just want to be a part of the faction that is based on machines being brought together into one group. No different than a bh group, or a trading group of independants. In this case it was started by the harvesters, binary, and cylons since indy machines simply cant afford to start something like this on thier own. A true Machine Alliance was formed, 3 groups of "machines" banding together and welcomming other machines to join.

Binary for example. Binary will not attack ANYONE unless they are fired on first, given a very specific order, or if they had been attacked by that ship or group before. They also will not shoot nomads, zoners, or the order and don't like it when Harvesters start hunting them. But because of how nomads (keepers) ignored Binary. and because of the alliance, we are willing to look the other way when this happens and "may" eventually take up a position hostile to nomads specifically.

This is what makes the alliance unique, not everyone in the "race of machines" has the same programming and RP as Harvesters.

If Zoners arent "combat" oriented, and don't wish for combat, then the ones who arent, shouldnt have a problem giving up thier destroyers and other combat ready ships. "Vanilla" Zoner RP to me puts them all in eagles, trading vessels, or smaller. I doubt you'll find many Zoners willing to agree to this. So to me they made thier "combat readiness" choice the moment they bought a ship other than a freighter. This goes for ANYONE in ANY faction.

"chance encounter" - Means that harvesters don't go out of thier way to find zoners and fight them. Atleast to my knowledge this hasnt happened in awhile. Most of the times i can think of was simply passing through the system or base where they met, and even then harvesters give them the option to leave before the harvest commences.

The main post does need a lil spit and polish though.

Hippys: I know what you mean, but most hippys that got that kind of treatment back then were simply "hanging out" or sitting in a field minding thier own buisness. They were treated that way simply because they were there and refused to leave a place they felt they had a right to be. No different than a corsair telling you to leave gamma, and then you get blasted because you didnt. Is is your fault for not leaving, or is it the fault of the poeple trying to "oppress" you?