Nodoka Hanamura - Feedback Thread

[Nodoka Hanamura]

Two things of note:

One, I will be away for vacation from the 3rd to the 7th, and afterwards will be intermittently unavailable for a day or two as I change ISPs.

Two, I wish to request feedback on this SRP ID that I may submit to the devs around when I get back. This is primarily to allow for an event to take place, and to provide for the operation of a Shukensha liner for what will likely be a Pirate ID faction (If I can get clarification from an admin as to whether the ID affords the ability to proactively engage house authorities or not) or a Freelancer ID'd faction like last time around, taking advantage of bounty boards to provide engagement rights.

This ID's somewhat futureproofed (Since yes, I know liners aren't exactly combat ships right now) for upcoming updates that I've heard rumors about converting liners into BC-equivalents, much like the Bustard.

This ID Belongs to the OCS Utsunomiya, a Shukensha-class liner belonging to Battlegroup Ouroboros. The Utsunomiya, the flagship of the Ouroboros following the demise of the Aquilon-class Abdicant Seraphine, continues its' predecessor's role by serving as the current hub for Ouroboros' aspirations to eventually manifest a force to return to Kusari. In the meantime, the Utsunomiya, much like the rest of the Ouroboros, bides its' time aiding allies in their current primary area of responsibility in Liberty, Bretonia and vicinity, tasking its' small snubcraft complement, alongside those on the Bustard-class OCS Tochigi, to engage in a support capacity for their allies in the region.

This SRP ID is used by the OCS Utsunomiya, which:

- Can attack any ship to protect ships that it is friendly to.

- Cannot dock on installations in House Space (Except in Pennsylvania and Dublin).

Within Zone of Influence (Liberty and Bordering Systems, Bretonia and Bordering Systems, Taus and bordering systems)

- Can attack House Authorities.

- Can demand credits from transports in Cortez, Magellan or Inverness.

Reputations:

0.4 - Auxesia (// Primarily due to Hanamura's past ties to the group.)
0.4 - Platform
0.4 - Bundschuh
0.4 - IMG
0.4 - RPA / Mollies
0.4 - Zoner Militant
0.2 - Maquis
0.1 - Lane Hackers
0.1 - Starfliers
0.1 - Zoners
0.0 - Everyone Else
-0.1 - Junkers
-0.1 - Phoenix
-0.55 - Gaians
-0.55 - House Gallia
-0.55 - Hogosha
-0.55 - House Rheinland
-0.55 - Samura
-0.55 - Core
-0.55 - Unioners
-0.7 - Coalition
-0.7 - Unione Corse
-0.7 - Order
-0.8 - Kishiro Technologies
-0.8 - Golden Chrysanthemums
-0.8 - Blood Dragons
-0.8 - House Kusari
-0.8 - Gallic Royalists
-0.9 - Outcasts
-0.9 - Corsairs
-0.9 - Crayter Republic
-0.9 - House Bretonia
-0.9 - House Liberty
-0.9 - Xenos
-0.9 - Vagrants
-1 - Wild
-1 - Nomads

I've had the question posed to me before about "Why do you not simply use the Blood Dragons ID"?

That's a legitimately good question. And it's one I at one point did think was a great Idea. But the more I look at factions like TSK being farther off towards Officialdom than we are, the inRP state that Ouroboros is in, and the issues that the Faction system has in relation to chain of authority (Official factions having authority over UFs and Indies, meaning we run into the awkward hypothetical of Ouroboros having to 'answer' to either TSK as BD ID, or Gen'an GC as GC.), I'm left to realize that the BD ID even if we transitioned to it down the line, wouldn't exactly be the most stable thing.

Faction IDs imply some sort of affiliation with that group. Blood Dragons, at least in their Disco presentation, are not in line in the slightest with Ouroboros' ideals, being literally degraded to a choice between Shogun Pepsi (KuGov) and Imperial Coke (Blood Dragons), when I'm coming around with a Democratic Ale-8. ( Ale-8 is short for Ale-8-One, a brand of Ginger Ale made in Kentucky) You can see where our problem lies in this situation. There's been a history of OFs and UFs that use IDs that aren't exactly heavily associated/aligned with their associated faction - but the risk of being made subjugate under penalty of being forced to a different ID (which I believe is how FR5 works now, if you share an ID), the questionable nature of the loose fitting of factions to IDs in the past, along with what I'm about to mention, means a Blood Dragon ID is simply infeasible at least, for the time being. Maybe in the future we can shift to it, or simply just transition direct from a Pirate/FL ID to an OFL ID that falls more in line with what I feel the faction is best suited to be able to do.

The inRP state of Ouroboros is they have had to reorganize just to make being combat-effective sustainable, and that is only just barely. We've gone from a small faction of 20,000-30,000 people to just over 10,000, which has led to an intensive micromanagement of who is stationed where, which resulted in the reformation and subsequent ORBAT that was made for Ouroboros' reformation as a battlegroup. The reason they aren't going to Kusari right away, is that inRP - to me at least for right now, Ouroboros is best served by building their forces back up, reputation back up, and trying to assist likeminded groups to build bonds that will be mutually beneficial in the end, when they do stage a direct campaign against Kusari. Even guerilla warfare, this close to the culmination point, is too risky, and risks the faction's demise. But fighting alongside groups like the Mollies, Prometheus/Aux and the PLF, building trade connections and the sort with Platform and IMG, helps pave the way towards self-sufficiency. Strength in numbers, victory among friends, as it were. To quote Hanamura herself - "If we cannot successfully help our friends in their causes for freedom and justice - what could we expect to achieve in Kusari other than another rout that could be our last?"