[In vote] Xeno Alliance | XA-

[Karst]

Xenos are not just anti-foreign influence, they are anti-corporate and anti-establishment. The desire of the IMG and Zoners to live and work outside of house influence is something we respect, not to mention you should probably not antagonize people if almost everyone is your enemy already.
We've always been neutral to those two; the vanilla faction description stated "Enemies: Everyone except Zoners and IMG"

I respectfully disagree, and the XA was not always neutral to those two, it just depends on how far your memory goes back. The Xenos are poor specifically because everyone's their enemy. The entire cause is hate, the rest is mere justification. Hate is unreasonable, and makes easy and incorrect assumptions. It's not about getting away from house influence, it's about Us vs. Them, and 'Them' is anyone who isn't Libertonian by birth.

The IMG has its origins in Bretonia, and Bretonians are Them, and therefore job-stealing enemies of the Libertonian worker.

The Zoners are all about live-and-let-live, and you can't just live with the enemy. They'll destroy you every time if you try. The Zoners misguided philosophy is poison for a pure Liberty. The Libertonians amongst the Zoners have rejected their birthright and are little better than foreigners themselves.

Those Universal boys aren't too bad, but the rest of the corporations would sell out the Libertonian people in half a heartbeat for a single Kusari or Rheinland credit.

Get where I'm coming from?

Back in my XA days, Zoners and IMG would not get special protection. If they're hauling foreign goods or threatening Libertonian trade, they'd be dust. Personally, I'd usually quiz the captain of the vessel to figure out their origin; if they're Libertonian, I might give them a free pass. Otherwise, unless they're supporting Libertonian trade, there's no reason why Xenos would treat them any differently to everyone else.

To both of you: I guess it depends on how you want to play your Xeno character. At its heart, regardless of how a particular character personally feels about foreigners, the basis of the Xeno Alliance is not simple hatred of foreigners, but the demise of the Liberty working class (allegedly) due to the rise of inter-house trade and particularly an increase of cheap imports. We more strongly oppose a Libertonian bringing in food from Rheinland than a Rheinlander trading within Liberty.

Playing Xenos as "space rednecks" whose entire ideology is to hate foreigners is way overdone and I like to think XA has not, for the most part, played that cheap card.

P.S.: Lyth, I was in XA at the same time as you and I'm pretty sure our diplomacy was the same as now.

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