BHG Warships. A flawed concept?

[Derkylos]

Erm proper manor? Can you please explain that. What does it means use cap ships in proper manor? To defend our home system? Oh yeah, hunters don't have one. Or don't buy cap ships, and use bomber/fighters to collect bounties on all class of ships?

Use caps to engage Nomads in the omicrons, and protect against Order/Corsair attacks...

And what's wrong with collecting bounties in a fighter/bomber? Note that, as pirates cannot...pirate...in anything bigger than a GB, there is little real reason to deploy caps to keep trade flowing, anyway.

If a pirate attacks transports in a gunboat what is the problem with a BH attacking said pirate in a Battle Cruiser?

What is the crew of the battlecruiser getting out of attacking said pirate? The ones that deploy destroyers and up (the Core) are not particularly interested in protecting trade routes (their income comes from the general bounties collected by the rest of the guild), they are fighting a war.

In essence, you have 2 sub factions within the Bounty Hunters. You have the regular Hunters, a mix of ex-cons, disillusioned military, people looking for a quick buck, etc, and the Core, a military power equivalent in strength to the Houses (possibly), funded by the actions of the "regulars" (hence why you have one faction), but only interested in conducting research into the use of Nomad tech.

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