"New faction creation process and representation" discussion thread.

[Magoo!]

Sorry about the eh, thread mix-up.:$
This was my intended destination.

Well... 8 Pages later, I'm not sure if my currency is obselete, but here it is. (I read through most of it, just not sure if this'll bear weight)

My hypothesis, based off of Korrd's lovely diagram.
-EDIT- Criminal Groups A-D are all under one faction. i.e. Rogues, Corsairs, etc.



SO! This way:

1. Blackbeard gets Redbeard's permission to plunder more loot to the south and east.
2. If Black Bart disagrees with the Rogue Council's decision, and no alternative can be reached, he starts busting caps in his ex-compatriots and could enforce his will on the others.
-i.e. If his side wins a series of engagements, his opinion on the issue at hand will be enforced.
3. The House authorities maintain authority (lets face it, if a government is going to change something affecting the little people, they'll do it). If there are multiple House authorities, a council can be made among them to decide how best to shaft the little people.

I am of the opinion that only unlawfuls should have councils in the traditional sense. All lawful forces basically act independantly. The Navy/Police/AF/Military act as the government and will do as they please, and the corporations that players run are in it to win it and no amount of bureaucratic paper-pushing will stop them.

Example time!
House Lawfuls:
The LN choose to outlaw the shipment of, say, Cobalt going hither and yon.
(IF there are multiple authorities present, a vote may be cast.)
Now, lets assume it is accepted and passed.
Lets say Interspace agrees to not ship Cobalt. Yay, for them! No piracy charges!
But now, (sad face :() Republican Shipping is being naughty, saying that Liberty can't affect the passage of Rheinland goods to say, Bretonia.
Liberty, of course, disagrees and starts shanking them in one way or another.
This then makes Bretonia grumpy and ticks Rheinland off even more.

Example 2
House Criminals:
Blackbeard, Redbeard, Black Bart, and Calico Jack are meeting in a dank, carved out, sorry excuse of a meeting room, drifting within some asteroid or another.
BB, RB, and BB squared all say 'Yay' to an Alliance with, say (hypothetical) the Hogosha.
Calico Jack strongly disagrees, having killed many-a gung ho, -san abusing, broken English speaking pilot in the past and having developed a prejudice.
Now, Calico Jack will not compromise.
So Calico Jack summons his crew of Motley, Stan, and the others whom he cannot remember.
Jack now busts caps in his enemies.
Jack pursuades his ex-comrades to see his side of the Hogosha story.
Jack secures his opinion.
The civil war is over.
Now, this upsets the Hogosha since their profits wont be tripling any time soon by smuggling the Deck, Kusari is upset at the Rogues (due to their screwed up relations with quasi-legal stereotypes, "HONOR!") and at Liberty for letting their problem spill into the Emperor/Shogun/Nobody really knows and its like arguing with Prea over Nomad origin.

THUS! The perfect system.

A real system.

Adieu.
NOW!

-Double Edit- "Now!" ? 0.o ... Not sure what I was thinking there...