Well I told Korrd I wouldn't post here for awhile, so that people could give their opinions and talk amongst themselves for a bit. I think 30 posts into it would be acceptable..
Well first, we make no claim to ownership of any system at the moment, the question was merely presented to judge the opinions and knowledge of the others who were here, and because it had to do with question three. That being said, we will be remaking AW, but that will come after our trading division comes, and after our RP story has been started. We will be going for Omi-74 again, as I would suspect most of you would've guessed.
Still working on what exactly will be in it, but it will contain Luciaden's death scene, probably as a flash-back post, in the context of one person telling another about it. And then it will move on to the AW's current leadership, status, etc and of course, some interesting galaxy event like I did for GotP, though those ships won't be coming back.. The invincible ships were there to get Luciaden to demi-god status so that I could write his death.
To the second: We are currently 'patroling' Theta in the context of keeping out any and all piracy, as well as any fighting between people, with exception to fighting against the Corsairs, which was posted about in other threads, so I don't want to get into that here.
To the third; I personally see it as wrong.. However, I'd be willing to compromise. I gave this offer to two of the Corsair Dreadnaughts we fought last week. They can sit in space at the Theta JH in Gamma, or inside of Theta outside of the cloud (I know asteroids are no fun), just not docked at FP9.. Everytime I undock in my Jugg, I'm afraid someone will shoot me as I try to get unstuck from the main pillar (Jugg always gets stuck). That or you could dock at Corfu. However, when we have Omi-74 back, I'd see docking either station or staying in Theta unlogged would be rather OORP.
For question I; I want to keep it. I know our diplomacy isn't exactly the same as Zoners. Its never has been, and so long as we protect Theta, it never will be. No matter what we do.. We are between the Corsairs and the Outcasts. Either side must travel through Theta to attack the other's home system, which gets us blamed for 'letting them stage from Theta.' We don't actually do that.. The Outcasts only pass through.. And we can't stop them from doing that, as there is nothing to justify it. Just as we cannot stop the Corsairs from moving through to attack Alpha or Eta.
However, there is also people speaking of our past wars, such as with the SF and such.. Please remember that the majority of our wars occured BEFORE NPC affiliation was required or possible (tags weren't possible yet). So at that time we were simply AW. Not AW that is working with Zoners to defend Theta. After we were affiliated with Zoners, the number of wars we had greatly reduced, and we had less hostiles than before.
Now, for the last several months, starting from when we were still official we have had 2 factions hostile to us on our rep sheet. Now that includes the Corsairs and Harvesters. Before it was only the Phantoms (obvious reasons, and RP reasons), and Keepers (again, obvious reasons). Now it is those two, Harvesters (obvious reasons), OPG and TBH (TBH broke ceasefire 4 times, OPG aided them in attacks on AW in Theta).
The only friendlies we have are the TAZ, for obvious reasons, and the IND, as they are traders that frequent Theta a lot, and we had been friendly for quite some time. Don't know if they are still friendly or not, will need to know if it needs updated. Outcasts are on our NEUTRAL status, and will remain so. If they aren't, I'd be making a new status called; Mutual military struggle. That doesn't mean friendly or allied, it simply means we have the same enemies and we can help each other against those common enemies. If the war were to end, we'd be right back to neutral immediately..
We also never entered Gamma since these tensions with the Corsairs started, except when on our way to Kappa or Delta. We have not entered scanner range of Crete for a long time.
As for the Outcast ships.. I'm tempted to ask my members to move towards IMG GBs, if thats what everyone wants. For battleships, provide me with an alternative BS that can move through asteroids (thats why we only have 1 Jugg that stays in Theta. Can't move through asteroids) and I'll have us switch, and will even RP the Dreads being sold back to the Outcasts.
I'm running short on time, so I must finish this later.