[SIEGE/DEFENSE EVENT]Kansas Prelude19:00-21:00 UTC Navy/Lawful vs Auxo/Unlawful

[Erremnart]

Oh, I doubt anyone was surprised that LN indies are defending it. Guaranteed protection is supposed to happen if you put your POB in house space anyway, and people will want to go to pews. And there's always a risk of where you place your POB, and even more so with what you say and do to publicly announce to the sector in ungoverned space. Shit happens.

There was an option to genuinely avoid it all - since I presented OORPly a means to give a proper narrative reasoning to ignore the fact that there's a base dealing with alien stuff right next to a spot thats supposed to be guarded - and I explicitly stated - clear as day - that I know how much of a pain it is to build those modules which is why I wanted a peaceful solution. A solution where he loses nothing but unironically gains things (he would have gained a defender, gained possible mutual mining). But he harrassed one of my members in PM, and then started assuming that presenting a character means you're getting griefed and started getting careless with the RP. That is why there are some distastes.

Actually it's pretty identical behaviour to powertraders assuming you're being griefed if a pirate is asking for some credits. Oh well, it happens, unfortunately, too much in Disco. Personally I'm just in this for the pews and analysing group gameplay since it is hard to get huge group fights.

So, I actually don't want to judge who is more in the right or not. In my opinion, the siege of this POB from your faction's perspective is justified - you have some goals and this aligns with them pretty nicely. Likewise, the motivation of the Bounty Hunters and Liberty Navy to be there despite it being just desolate Kansas is good enough too. It's practically the same as if they were responding to a larger number of Liberty Rogues or Xenos somewhere in Ontario - which, like Kansas, is actually also an independent world, but practically does not border any other House than Liberty - which means zero risk of any diplomatic incident.

Besides, the motivation to shoot their enemies is actually the simplest for lawful characters - their task is not to think about why enemy X or Y is doing this or that. And if they like their cozy spot on board their large capital ship (which practically belongs to their House inRP, not them personally), then they should do what they are paid for - shooting at whoever their legitimate government has decided is the enemy.
Of course, I'm not saying that all lawful players should play as connbots, but in practical effect compared to the much freer unlawfuls, that's actually what is expected of soldiers and police officers. That's ultimately the reason why I, for instance, don't actually have a lawful main character, because playing a proper soldier is actually boring for me in the long run.

In this situation, it would be much weirder, and I would probably even object, if fleets of Outcasts came to defend this POB. Like, imagine them wasting their precious lives for some freelancers.

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