The Unioners UN|

[Char Aznable]

I feel obliged to comment now, since my comments via skype and legitimate feedback seem to have fallen on deaf ears.

Let me get a few thing straight first, though. I like that you're trying to revive the Unioners, and I very much appreciate that. It gives both interaction possibilities to Rheinland factions that definetely need it and also provides enough room for conflict.
Your Roleplay so far has been consistently well done, and I don't see anything wrong with it. In fact, I really appreciate a lot of it, even if you're technically my inRP enemy.

There is a bit of criticism, though, and that has been consistent with me so far. And that point is your expansion into the Sigma cluster. Now I know the ooRP reasoning behind this, but it doesn't make an awful lot of sense to me. The Unioners have already been expanding heavily into Liberty, and consistently did so on the basis of multiple RPs. This is evident in the fact that you have Texas in your basic NPC faction ZOI. Now you want to shift the focus away from that while maintaining the expansion into Liberty, and that just seems very off to me. A ZOI stretching from Texas to Honshu doesn't only sound weird, it also makes no sense from an RP point of view.
Let me try explaining why I think it doesn't. The Unioners are a pirate movement, and, while heavily involved in smuggling operations, have been maintaining most of their operations through piracy and the like. While being the middle man in most smuggling routes involving Rheinland is certainly a thing that gives you a significant amount of money and ressources, even enough to expand your operations towards Liberty, you have to bear in mind that the latter was only really possible because the first opposition that you really ran into was when you actually got there. There's just nothing that could qualify as a significant roadbump on the way. Your home is in Hamburg, you have a base in Bering, and can basically just hop over. No issues here.
The Sigmas (and Honshu) are a completely different cup of tea however. Now I know that you have Corsair bases and bases bordering the Sigmas (in Frankfurt and Munich), but those are not your bases (at least the ones actually within the Sigma region). I could understand some operations in the area, but having ZOI implies a heavy presence. Even if you had no opposition along the way and could maintain a proper supply line it would be stretching it, but you have to maintain supplies to Texas operations, and Sigma operations, even ones in Kusari core space, without having bases that you own close to the area. Now even if you had enough ressources to pull that one off, this is assuming that you don't have any opposition along the way. You have, though. Neither the Bundschuh nor the GMG will be particularly happy about your operations in their corner of space, and I kind of doubt that you would be able to maintain a proper supply chain, let alone organized operations all the way up to Honshu.
If you really want this to happen, I suggest you try sorting out your relations with at least the Bundschuh to maintain a proper chain of supply at least into the Sigmas, and after that put in a faction perk request.
Bear in mind that I have only used inRP reasoning here, therefore applying ooRP reasoning to counter the arguments and points made would not really work well.

Thank you for your attention and I hope you reconsider this. Good luck either way

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