Harvester

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I have no problems with departing from Vanilla FL. Many factions do it, but also realize that the factions that do it have little to no influence over the politics of the Sirius Wide factions. For instance, the SCRA and Phantoms are departures from Vanilla, but their influence on the story of the game is quite minimal...their RP extends as far as terrorizing ingame, then ends there.

Your faction is proposing a drastic change to the storyline, as if Bretonia were to wake up one day and decide, "let's attack Liberty and upset the balance of power."

This is true. As a "race" sentient machines are new. Take the movie "I Robot" for example. Yes it will change some politics, and maybe even the storyline a little. This is the point, machines have become self aware and sentient, and now they are fighting for thier independance. It only stands to reason some will not like this, while others welcome it, and others fear it. this isnt a departure from vanilla, this is expanding upon it. The developers didn't create a planet of robots (gammu) just for the fun of it. Even if they DID, our story is simply expanding on what was allready in VANILLA freelancer.

Maybe they had a piece of corrupt coding that made them be hostile, maybe one day everyone will like them, or even one day the robots might decide that humans arent worth scrap and start turning them all into lubricants without hesitation. Who knows, this is what makes it the best form of roleplay. Not just a specific set of rules (motives) that never change.

Phantoms for example, terrorists, allways have been allways will be, to me thier story was and is stagnant because it has absolutely NO potential to expand or change.

"Your faction is proposing a drastic change to the storyline, as if Bretonia were to wake up one day and decide, "let's attack Liberty and upset the balance of power.".....

I read a post the other day about a few pirate factions who are trying to join together and do this exact thing. Look at the newly corrpt RM. "Vanilla" factions do these things every day and no one has a thing to say about it.

EDIT: Heres a quote from the back of a Marilyn Manson cd.

"This is your world in which we grow, and we will grow to hate you."

It is very possible for machines to take this line to heart, if humans continue thier fear, hostility, and unwillingness to accept that which they do not fully understand.