Junker Congress

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Junkers evolved is essentially what I see here. Taking a far more indepth look at the Junkers and pulling forward what the Junker's are truely like for everyone else to see. Must say, nicely done. The proposal itself it flawless currently, save for some minor word errors etc, and the intention of the faction is one that will help the community and not harm it.
All in all, simply great.

That aside, I'd be very interested in your plan to bring others in from outside the faction etc. I've a Junker character that might just be interested in signing up for the faction infact.

Thanks much for the positive feedback. if i missed some typos, point 'em out if you can.

It is "Junkers evolving" but with a distinction, a small group of Junkers in a tableau where evolution isn't universally occurring. Some Junkers will look and say, "What do we need change for?" and be suspicious, others will get inspired and want to follow. Pretty true to real life I hope.

Step one is to become an official faction.
Step two is to demonstrate and publicly define our role play.
Step three is to open up to other groups and politics.

It will be a "fledgling political system". Just as the early US government had to make broad allowances for "state's rights" the Congress will have to make allowances for individual Junker rights. It won't be able to "outlaw slave trading", "stop drug smuggling" so it will have to allow those sorts of things to be within the latitude of acceptable Junker behavior. It also has to have some strength and representation with both criminal and house groups--keeping the line between as Junkers always have while still standing up for its own principles and pursuing its goals.

So it can't afford to become "The New Junker Order" because it won't be strong enough without traditional foundations and allies to stand. So it is like the first small motion towards real social change--a social experiment by a small but noticeable portion of the population. The sort of thing that could mature into a powerful house in fifty or one hundred years but that will be closer to the basic Junker in the present.

What will be really interesting is if Junkers are indeed "Le Balance'" for Gallia, it will have to chose a side. Break away like the Colonies did from Britain or side with the King as the Tories did?

Should be a lot of fun...aside from managing all the wildly different people who play Junkers for all sorts of reasons;)

This will be an easy faction to develop as far as just "playing with Junkers" but a slow building one to find people who can play the above aspects. If I get two more solid "politicians" with good rp and time we'll open politics up. These will have to be people like Oniros and Servus who can work really closely with me. Rudo looks like a good candidate and a maybe one or two others. Still observing at the moment.

I am already planning the "First Session of Congress". You are welcome to get involved at any point.

We have a need as a group wanting to be official, to have visible, tagged characters who can act together at various times. Most Junker players are pretty attached to their junkers as most started with them and many are hesitant to tag. Here is my alternative for those going, "Hmm...but I don't want to change."

Well do the same thing the Colonials did...form state militias that combine into an army.

Create a single "tagged" character for use in large events, spare time station policing and just tojoin in occasionally--keeping you full time character if you need to. Both can be fully involved that way and the "faction" is still viable.

So say you have "Junker Bluto": who is your baby and he wants to interact with the Congress but not "sell out" to anyone. Then create ".:j:.Joe.Reservist to be a 'foot soldier on occasion and role play ol' obstinate and difficult to get along with Bluto in interaction with the Congress.

Hope that makes sense.

When you join, we don't "own your soul" and demand all of your time. We need part time players for an army in numbers more than we need large numbers of deep involved players. A few quality players can handle rp development but we need numbers to have a presence in the game.

Then we can see what happens. Appreciate much the supportive comments. Thanks.

Something to consider.

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