House Military Indies

[beander2]

Anyone who knows me or HGL knows we have no intention of flaunting authority. However, a recent event has raised some questions for me.

While flying the Trafalgar, I recently had an abrupt run-in with an "NC|"-tagged vessel in Colorado. This individual had a Liberty Navy ID, and I believe was in a proper Liberty navy ship. Nothing oorp there.

However, he was pretty (and unnecessarily) rude and attempted to throw his weight around as Liberty Navy. I told an SA vessel about it, who said SA had been having problems with such individuals and referred me to an SA commander. That one in turn told me "NC|" vessels were outside his jurisdiction. I have also been unable to find "NC|" on any unofficial faction list. Hence the following questions:

1. Do independent (non-faction-affiliated), house-military-ID'd vessels have the same authority in their house space as vessels from factions representing the NPC house militaries?

2. Does the ID's specification that the holder is presumed to have joined the house military require them to join the proper faction? Should it, perhaps?

3. How should lawful civilian vessels, such as HGL's, respond to these ships? Do we have to obey their orders?

4. More importantly, if they are abusive, to whom do we appeal? If we do not cooperate, is that tantamount to defying the laws and factions of that house?

While I understand and respect the significance of IDs for RP, it seems rather absurd to me that we would have to obey the orders of such vessels, especially when they are arbitrarily and unnecessarily rude (which I find to be rather oorp for a house authority). Any player could bribe or do missions for a house military, get the ID and ship, and then go out and order everyone around with no faction RP, training, or most importantly, supervision and accountability. I can't see how the rest of us are bound by that.

Finally, THIS IS NOT A FLAME POST. I'm asking for clarification; that's all. I'll certainly abide by the community's understanding.


PS: There is a good general discussion about military ID here, though it does not speak to this exact issue:

Military ID RP

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar