Junker Congress

[worldstrider]

Yep--I'd agree with Rudo's summation. I want to be careful for people to realize we shouldn't all be flying gunboats. Most of us should be in transports with an occasional fighter.

Here's the full story of what literally created the Harvester-Junker alliance:

We had a covert rp ship in Puerto Rico and I had decided to begin building the .:j:. fleet there before announcing it as a faction. The first night I showed up to do this, Scornstar was flying his first Harvester ship about readying to terrorize Zoners and deciding what ID Harvesters would eventually settle on to fly. I believe at the time he had a neutral IFF and a Zoner ID (maybe pirate--not sure). He decided "Puerto Rico" would be a good place to quietly base and begin.

So I am there with my secret ship setting up and--guess who sails in?

I ordered the Harvester to leave and it informs me it will destroy me and will not leave--that PR will be it's home. He was in a cruiser or gunboat and I was in a collector with no torp. I told him he could not use Junker bases and he stated they would be used as the resources around them were needed and "biounits" trying to stop them would be destroyed. This did not look good for a fledgling group composed of two Junkers. So we began an rp conversation about whether it was more logical to conflict with Junkers or to work with them cooperatively. The Harvester concluded from our conversation that Junkers were the most logical of all Sirius biounits as they simply did what waas most advantageous for themselves--just as the Harvesters do. So we cut a deal where Junkers would not attack Harvesters or hinder them from collecting scrap and Harvesters would defend Junkers and Junker bases if they were attacked while they were present. As a result, the Junkers gained base defense and a potential threat that others had to consider.

In the intervening time since this accord was struck, they have defended us from bounty hunter attacks on several occasions and generally kept authorities respectful of our turf--as well as chasing off non_Junker campers from Bornholm.
They have also participated in some of our unadvertised (as of yet) RP. Tinkerbell speaks often with the Harvesters (when not consumed by multiple pms anyway) and has overall probably spent more time dialoguing with them than any other single player. The thrust of his conversations is to always reaffirm the ability of Junkers to act with predictable logic and interests and to emphasis that as biounits they have some inherent abilities that may be useful for the Harvesters to understand (like "dreaming").

Curiosity and practical benefit seem to have kept the Harvesters content with this relationship to date.

While Harvesters view Junkers as "non-hostile" they are able to understand the differences in character between those following "Tinkerbell" (whom they have extensive data and experience with) and "others". Junkers approaching Harvesters for aid will most likely get it but the relationship they have may be very different depending on the presentation
of themselves and their interests. Scorn can fill in anything I am not covering--this is the Tinkerbell side of it.

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