Corsair with a Question

[Carlos_Benitez]

As for this two. Artifacts are not Corsair commodity ? Excuse me ?


Think those 3 pics kinda say otherwise. Corsair economy is based on piracy and artifact trade/smuggling so please dont tell us that arties are not ours.
What about Yanagi ?
You mean the "drop r dai" roleplay ? Chasing a train with cruiser all the way to Delta roleplay ? Or perhaps camping an "unknown" Rogue base in the badlands one ?

Honestly Rheinland and Bretonia are way more funny for a smuggler to go. Haven't smuggled through Kusari yet.

Now this topic isn't about a "fleet of morons in their gunboats" in Alaska. It's about a lone fighter or two protecting a transport and drawing LPI/LSF/LN attention off the transport itself.

I'm sorry, did you actually read my post, or simply vomit on it and give it back?

Artefacts are not a "Corsair Commodity". - you'll notice the quotation marks which alter the meaning of the sentence. If you had bothered to read the post you where picking apart, you would have noticed that I made direct reference to Corsairs that carry artefacts. At no point did I say that Corsairs diddn't transport artefacts, and I specificly said they did.
Artefacts, however, do not flow exclusively out of the Corsairs hands. Unlike the Outcasts with their cardimine, the artefact trade does not exclusively belong to the Corsairs. As I stated, they can be found floating in space, and are carried by many more groups than just Corsairs.
The aforementioned statement was used to highlight the stupidity of the attitude that "Cardimine and Artifacts are the same". They are not.
Corsair ships escorting artefact smugglers into Liberty only cements the misconception held in the minds of most liberty criminals that artefact smugglers must be Corsairs; an attitude I've tried very hard to change.

If the Corsairs where ever intended to carry artefacts themselves, all the way to New York wouldn't the game designers have given them transport vessels in their ship-set, such as a Dromedary equivalent? In the original game, the only incidents in which artefacts where seen in Liberty space where while they where in the possession of Sean Ashcroft's group of smugglers and pirates, the chain-smoking thief on Manhattan, and Trent.

The second half of your post makes no sense or has any bearing on this issue. My post was entirely concerned with the matter at hand; smuggling through Alaska escorted by corsair ships.
I am well aware of "what this topic is about", thank you. The scale of a violation does not make it any less wrong.

The final chapter began in the sixth century AS, when an enterprising, well-armed Liberty freelancer named Jim Bown made his way to Omicron Gamma. He brought various Consumer Goods to trade, but the Corsairs could offer little but Artifacts. A year later, he returned. Those trinkets were all the rage with the elite of Manhattan. He saw a great business opportunity if they could set up a viable trade route to Liberty. The Corsairs were on their way. They grew rapidly in size and sophistication as they built up the Artefact trade.

Asno...this particular passage is very much open to interpretation. Jim Brown was the first "private agent" artifact smuggler. "He saw a great business opportunity if they could set up a viable trade route to Liberty". He was the forerunner for people such as Ashcroft's organisation in SPlayer.
The most ambiguous line is "they built up the artefact trade". Does that mean that they smuggled all the way into liberty with their own ships, or does this mean that they provided the raw materials, foundations and infrastructure for the trade to grow?

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