ageira faction

[jdftheman]

first of all, thank you all for your feedback.

@remora:
A very good question you ask there, i have been thinking about that and basically, this is what i came up with.
Ageira would be a company that abuses the fact that they have the money and the tech to impose there will upon those that stand in there way. They wouldn't hesitate do do something that is a bit illegal if it gets them more profit. an example: Lets say there is someone who is interested in buying special hybrid(nomad) weapons. The ageira arms dealers would be more than willing to supply him with that. Now the LPI comes along and orders them to drop those weapons, what would they do then. Simple, bribe the officer(s), they are corrupt, so they can be bought, if not, maybe blackmail the government to allow these thing to happen.

This would make the lanehackers a group that no longer want to be like this, and try to make Ageira walk the right path again. What did ageira do, they made them look like the evil ones, and they use there influence and money to make sure they would be hunted down and destroyed.

@BaconSoda
I can see what you are getting at, and maybe i didn't explain it the right way, but what i see with maintaining (cause that would basically be the main thing we could do) is that lets say the Rheinland officials would ask Ageira/DSE to do the maintenance of a tradelane somewhere in Rheinland. It would than be some kind of an event. The Rheinland lawfulls would need to make sure the tradelane isn't used by any player and they would need to assist in protecting the maintenance vessels (transport and repair ship) from pirate attacks. For Rheinland unlawfulls is this the opportunity to cripple the Rheinland government by "destroying" the maintenance crews and thus making the tradelane unaccessible for a longer period.(this part still needs some working out, but this is how i see it). So it all comes down to more of an event for multiple factions, not just ageira.

Now this can only work if both Rheinland lawfull/unlawfull player factions want to do this. It all depends on these factions because they would have to make the request for the maintenance, not Ageira.In my eyes this should give allot of people an hour or so of RP fun.

Now if you wonder if this can be done with the proper RP, just think about it. Why would ageira, who keeps there tradelane tech a big secret learn people who in there eyes "stole" there tradelanes (Ageira wasn't really happy with the whole nationalization of there tradelanes) to maintain them. Because if you teach people to repair them, what is keeping them from building them thereselfs? I don't think it is going to be the good will of those "thieves" that will prevent that. And you can say whatever you like, but everything breaks down eventually, if not properly maintained.


Now about lane security, in this faction, i see them more as the high payed, well equipped private security force that ageira uses to defend its stations/convoys with, maybe even to hunt down pirates who bother them to much.