' Wrote:Were you the bounty hunter gunship we dealt with today, by chance? I stayed out of that engagement after making a deal with the bounty hunter to give up the junker pilots he was carrying, it was the harvester's decision to go after him, I called them off for the transaction.
Harvesters have their own set of 'protocols' - they dont like bounty hunters, or any other non-junkers to be honest - so it was his decision to chase you down, not mine.
No, I wasn't. I've not actually gone through 15 on my BH, place is too sticky and when I'm flying him I'm doing it to chase down someone specific to score a bounty. I stick to the houses, chiefly Bretonia as its purdy.
My thinking on the subject was largely academic. There are many examples here abouts of persons or groups as a whole conducting themselves as though it were the last day on earth, with that mindset of 'the actions of today carry nothing to tomorrow' being the guiding star for smugglers who elect to quick dock on lawful bases lol Junkers to fly about in pirate transports and lawfuls to trudge their silly battleships into the badlands only to have it get nixed without any real repercussions.
The Bounty Hunter that I mentioned had the above mentioned threat delivered to me in Leeds by a Junker carrying cracked software to Arranmore, something I didn't give a hoot about as their wasn't any fiscal reason for me to lift a finger. The threat about the Harvesters was delivered pro-actively.
The LPI was stopping a smuggler in NY while the Zoner was (of course) in Baffin as a smuggler (smuggler ID junker tag) replied to my inquiries with threats concerning Harvester reprisal if I came between him and the jumphole.
All of these events have taken place of a long period of time, but it's given me pause to consider why it seems so unthinkable that there may be long term repercussions for the associations that you keep and decisions that you make. While it could be said that the Junkers as a whole are not willing to call upon the services of the Harveys, how many precedents has history set where governments take the actions as a whole over the repeat actions of the few to determine policy?
