Corsair with a Question

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

I appologise ... it was so long i didn't bother. I just picked up few random lines and added my entirely wrong comments to them.

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.

Now to answer this bit i will quote you. Picked from the same post. Here goes:

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.

So they did but they didn't and even then they used Titans ?

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.

So which other group is responsible then ? Which other faction does not buy artifacts from the Corsairs ? All i ask is one simple example of one single faction which is dealing with artifacts that they didnt get from Corsairs.

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.

Why discussing SP ? Does it have anything to do with this ? In SP campaing you don't even have a chance to fly Centurion. Doesn't mean you cant does it ?

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.

There are other ways into liberty as well Chaps. Alaska is not the only way.

That pretty much answers this ..

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?

Asno already answered that, and i completly agree with him.

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