Nomad guns on corsair ship

[Jinx]

it all depends on the point of view. - there is "no information" about nomad turrets. - so - the information and the lore is 100% up to the player him/herself.

there are few things that should be considered though. - for one... nomad turrets either use no turret graphic ( gunboat turret .... its just a stationary light ) - or they are blueish jelly blobs ( cruiser / battleship ) - however, that is most probably due to the fact that it was overlooked and there was no model assigned - rather than a thought out RP fact.

but - as i said, its up to the player to decide. residents of omicron delta ( and kappa, but there are no "residents" in kappa - so we can ignore that one ) regularly get in contact with nomad battleship patrols that involve fighters, gunboats and battleships. - when they explode, you can see their turrets float away ( as fragments - and they blow up, cause its scripted ) - it can easily be RPed to recover such fragments and use them for your own benefit.

by that time, it depends on how you define those weapons. - converted to human use ... like the fighter weapons... thats of course possible. - and the BHG is doing it, as well as selling the knowledge about them and the hardware itself - thats why they started a bloody war there.

the corsairs however have no "official" lore about any ambition to exploit the nomad forces. - they attack them or defense against them to secure their own affairs, but other than that.... they usually do not go for nomad technology.

so - if we get down to what a faction is about in certain parts of space....:

- the corsairs want to keep yaren depot as a far outpost and a link between the order and the corsairs. - it is a resupply base for their raid groups in that area and as a buffer against any nomad ambitions ( as well as zoner ambitions ) -- the corsair show a heavy presense there and it is the only system that they deploy battleships in.

- the zoners protect their space and do deep space research with an advanced sensor array. they use freeport 11 mainly as a hub for their trade with cobalt but also as a switchboard for occasional artifact smuggle. they employ a direct link to toledo / isis and have secured the area with stationary weaponplatforms expanding their claimed space over the pure freeport range.

- the BHG is ( currently still ) using freeport 11 as the main base from which they stage attacks against the nomad forces ( they only fight the order when the order is in the way between them and the nomads regarding to the lore ) so the BHG is the only force that is really determined to go after the nomad technology off of all residents of Delta. they rip the nomad ships apart and sell everything that can be sold or make other use of it.

in RP, its is plausible for BHG ships to use nomad technology - if its RPed that they figured out how to use it on their ships - and if its to their own benefit. - it does not necessarily mean that they are infected. - ( nomad turrets = infected is entirely player made up.... and not supported by any official lore )

corsairs would probably not use the nomad technology, cause they are proud on their own weaponry much more. keep in mind - the BHG would use nomad tech, cause they have no own warship weaponry ( yet ) - so they take what they can get.

zoners would probably not use nomad technology, cause they lack the ambition to make them compatible. - they produce their own weapons - and those weapons are entirely made for the edge worlds - where they deploy their heavy ships. - so there is simply no need to put money into developing a way to make nomad warship weapons usable.


edit: the short answer about "do corsairs use nomad weapons" would be : no - cause they are too proud on their own weapons to use other weapons. [ when its about the rules though - you can. there is no rule that says that one cannot use Nomad turrets on a warship - as it is not stated that the turrets are generic nomad produced or refitted for human use ( due to the lack of lore on the ID card ) - no one should be reported for using nomad weaponry in 4.84 - but they might have to explain the use to those that are looking suspiciously upon them ]

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