Faction Proposal

[Coin]

Hey folks,

Have been kicking around on Disco for about six months now, and i like it, so i guess i'm staying around for a while.
The leadership of the faction (White Tigers) i was in on previous server has become vacant (we have dropped from about 20 players to about 3 in 2 years), but the RP we had was pretty good.
Our ethos was thus: If the pirates are shooting us, the traders are safe.
I think it would work here, with a few adjustments:

We were a lawful, military faction, aimed at protecting traders and hunting down pirates. We weren't bounty hunters or mercs, as these services are provided free of charge (donations always accepted). We used to help new players get started (much like the angels), with cash and trade run advice, and we'd hunt down malcontents who'd base camp/dockrape innocent traders.

i'm thinking of running it under a kishiro/ageira tag, for the following reasons:
those companies own the technologies of the trade lanes and jump-gates, giving a larger ZOI, backed up by solid RP.
There are few lawful factions in kusari.
there are few lawful factions that can freely operate in all the houses, protecting traders, not the whims of the current house politicians (i refer here to wars between bretonia/kusari, lib/rhein)

so, we'd be the military arm of k/a, protecting the trade lanes (and thereby traders) from pirates. We'd be able to chase a pirate down to a jumphole, and have to leave it there (county line stuff). we'd have no jurisdiction in a system without trade lanes, and if a WT tagged ship were to be found there, i'd expect damn good reason for it.

the major sticking point that i can see people disagreeing with is that we'd essentially have one of the largest ZOI of all: anywhere there was a trade lane.

only mercs, bounty-hunters, freelancers and (power) traders would have larger ZOI. merc's and bounty-hunters can attack lawfuls as well as awfuls, and powertraders are generally alt.chars of the latest uber-dread-juggernaut-corsair battleship. We'd try to balance that out.

ships & equipment
would be kusariberty, with the rank-and-file in defenders/guardians/avengers/havocs/gunboats (if ageira-tag), weapons would be strictly rp, no tiz/nomads. I'd love to be able to say 'no cap-whoring', but sometimes it doesnt pay to bring a knife to a gunfight, so access to caps will be upper echelons only, no exceptions, and deployment would be a rarity, not a regular saturday night slot.

diplomatic relations:
all lawful/house/trading factions would be friendly,
bounty-hunters/mercs neutral-ish (this would be on their behalf - we'd be in competition, clearing up contracts for free; also, the bounty-hunters are practically a standing army, and the merc's are soldiers with no leadership - anathema to disciplined troops),
junkers and zoners unfriendly-ish (due to their pirate connections)
smugglers unfriendly (pirate connections again),
wild/nomads enemies.

having a pirate tag and id is not enough: pirates would have to commit acts of piracy upon a trader for us to chase them down, if they run, they get chased back to the jumphole they <strike>crawled out of</strike> came from. If they stand and fight, they are engaged by no more than 2v1. there is NO honour in a gank-fest. If they cry 'uncle', they are expected to repay the money to the trader twice over, in effect, becoming pirated themselves. (i expect this to be controversial).

Goals:
patrol of the tradelanes of sirius, protecting traders, occasional convoy escorts. we would not have the right to stop and scan for cargo, nor demand contraband - thats the job of the house military. Kishiro/ageira technologies do not care what cargos are carried along the trade lanes, only that the house governments continue to service the loans they took out to honour the extended warranty contracts they signed. we just shoot the people who shoot trade lanes, and chase them off.

recruitment:
would be open to all lawful citizens of sirius; multi-clanning across the lawful/awful divide is fraught with tensions and temptations.

so, crazy or not so crazy?

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