Bs| is now Order|

[Tenacity]

After all, the Order aren't hostile to the Bretonians or Rheinlanders, in spite of being pally with the Corsairs, right?

We're fairly friendly with rheinland, Bs| used to be allied with the RM actually. I think the reasoning is because we constantly help them out with the wild in rheinland space.

Bretonia... not so much. Personally I think we're almost full on hostile with bretonia, for a few simple reasons:
1. Bretonia is liberty's closest ally, and liberty has branded us terrorists. Bretonia is likely to follow that misguided labelling and shoot us on sight.
2. We have only one ally in bretonia, and that's the gaians... and they're considered terrorists/pirates/criminals in bretonia.
3. We're currently trying to ally with Kusari (as well as rheinland) to gain some freedom of movement/public support for the order, and bretonia is at war with kusari.

Now, I dont know who's heading up the rheinland-order diplomacy, but I've been working for the past few weeks on setting up an alliance of sorts with Kusari. IMO, despite killing tekagi, Kusari is the order's best bet for a new ally - two of our allies exist there (FA and Hogosha), and both of those factions are very highly respected in Kusari. The hogosha also have a great deal of power and influence within the kusari government, and The Order has really never taken direct action against Kusari (with the tekagi exception).
Plus, well... Aki Kimura (my order character) is a native of kusari, and hence holds a little bit of respect and influence there, making her prime choice for a diplomat in that area. Most kusari wont listen to gaijin =P

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