Politics and Role Play

[worldstrider]

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Try diplomacy :)
(I did miss the diplomatic messages--sorry--been working twenty hour days for three weeks. I'll try to find them)

This isn't a "let me prove you wrong" debate. I have my own role play reasoning for what I am doing. It doesn't mater if you like or agree with it. These are the decisions my character is making for his own reasons.

Tinkerbell's idea of "Junker best interests" and yours--as an Outcast--will be very different and he is not the "typical Junker" to begin with.

What is in the Junker's best interest is to be in control of their own affairs. This is not something Junkers are used to as a group and is really a "new concept" for them. Outcasts have maintained relations with individual criminals and their cliques. The Congress is the first baby-step towards elevating Junkers from strict individualism and simple profiteering towards being more as a people and eventually a "nation".

Sometimes a conflict can cause unity where a lack of it does not. Politics is all about taking risks to get returns. You would be surprised at how many have quietly offered to take up arms on our behalf over this. That isn't our desire.

As to Outcast actions, the regular "sweeps" of Sigma demanding confiscation of all Nomad weaponry taken from the Wild...the undisciplined Dragons pirating and killing Junkers while Outcast pilots stood by and said if you fight them we will attack you--those were factors in deciding our course of action in Sigma.

We don't have large fleets and massive forces. We needed a firm ally. Outcasts can speak to me any time regarding specific action by our adjudicator. Where are these massive cardamine convoys he is looting and pirating in Sigma?

When Green Hawk is away from Yanagi, he is fully a "Corsair"--what he and you do to one another is not our concern. At Yanagi, he is "on duty" for the Junkers.

Do the Outcasts propose an alternative other than "Do what we say or die?"

I abhor the IRA's action but I'll draw a parallel: The IRA, a terrorist paramilitary. The Sinn Fein--a political arm that deals with governments.

Green hawk is essentially "Sinn Fein" when he is at Yanagi--if he steps beyond that while there, inform me od specificsand we will take action.

We have an interest in this process beyond Yanagi--its the first place we put a principle into action and we want to establish and develop it fully there. It's non House space and it can get a little messy--we'll clean up when we are done.

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