Faction Proposal

[Coin]

I have a question about the two lines I quoted above. First you said that smugglers would be unfriendly to you, followed up with that Kishiro/Ageria doesnt care about what cargo is carried. Now heres where my question lies. If you are going to be Kishiro/Ageria IFF, Then why care what cargo you are helping to escort? If Kishiro/Ageria doesn't care then I think the faction shouldn't either.
By the way, I like the idea :D

The answer lies in a reversal of the concept of :'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'

Smugglers buy contraband (cardi-cola, marijuana, etc) in (mostly) pirate bases. the exceptions are those commodities that House Govts have outlawed (bretonia, liberty) due to the current political climate.

The relationship to smugglers would be predicated by:

1. their close relations to pirates
2. there are fewer trade lanes in pirate systems, and fewer pirate bases than lawful bases in house systems - and as such we'd struggle to find a reason to be escorting someone from there. For example VIP-AO from cambs to Sig17 would be completely out of our mandate, but prisoners-diamonds from cambs-new berlin would be within our mandate
3 the poor relations between smugglers and house militaries/police

the pirates would be our enemies - and the smugglers friends. The house lawfuls would be our friends, but enemies of the smugglers.

We wouldn't really care about the cargo - we're not police - but the route and the connections of the smuggler would give us cause for concern

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