StellarVisses guide on how not to get sieged

[Capt.RedLegs]

Scaglainne Oir was in a tough spot - it's a non-Molly base owned by an unknown group of freelancers that wanted to open up shop and sell gold ore in direct competition to the Mollys, right in their own livingroom. It would have been a tough sell even if handled perfectly.

From the Bretonian Government side, you have to understand that it would look suspicious for an old station that (admittedly was licensed a long time ago) was recently known to be used by Mollys before being sold to an unknown group of freelancers who are there in direct violation of the Dublin embargo. If rules permitted, I'm sure it would have been a valid reason for Bretgov to siege the base themselves as it is - but the rules don't, so they didn't. Given that, it's a huge stretch to expect Bretgov to go from having a negative disposition towards the base to actively defending it. It probably didn't help at all to have the base owners actively lobbying OORP to have BAF mobilize, and then angrily complaining and insulting people also probably didn't help much either.

TLDNR: It sucks but it was a pretty long shot even if you did everything correctly and also conditions outside of your control aligned to help you out - but neither of those things were the case.

Molly RP during siege

PM to RPA which predates the siege declaration

So, an offer to cooperate with this base was rejected even though it would enable them to use the base during the so-called
"state of war" with Bretonia. Showing that there was never any real intent to not destroy the base, thus keeping the
balance of power and monopolies intact.
Furthermore, the fact that a thread showing the base offering to comply fully with their demands was actually used as RP
in the Molly siege declaration.

ooRP: The Aegis group, who are bounty hunters with native enmity to the Mollies asking the BAF is they're allowed
to respond to our offered bounties and assist infers that BAF would pull any contracts they had between them if they did so.
Since Mollies and BAF had come to a state of effective non-hostility due to the siege/counter-siege scenario that ended Molly sieges of Bretonian Corp bases, the embargo is a farce which only effectively prevents the resupply of bases besieged by the Mollies with apparent BAF indifference and effective permission.

The point being that a Staff run corp, co-owned by BAF OF 1ic is protected by that OF and another Staff-run OF, who are "prevented" from acting within valid BH faction RP against Molly aggression in the system. Thus making it impossible for any player to participate in Dublin. Mollies can do what they want so long as the protected bases are left alone, ensuring that any other bases in Dublin can be sieged and destroyed by one group or another.

Regardless of the "validity" of the attendant RP involved in this scheme, this whole situation doesn't pass the Smell Test.