BHG Warships. A flawed concept?

[Agmen of Eladesor]

I don't think bounty hunters should fly anything larger than gunboats. I also don't think they should be at war with the Order or even just be allowed into Alaska and beyond, it just doesn't make any sense.

The Bounty Hunter's Guild should exactly be what it's name suggests - a band of loosely affiliated individual hunters who are basically sellswords, but don't want to get a too bad name in the eyes of the law and thus only take lawful contracts. Using a GB might be justified for a bounty hunter, as they can easily be operated by small crews. Look at RL's Blackwater; they are pretty much the most "successful" private military contractor (which is basically a company of more-or-less lawful mercenaries). They are much more organized than the BHG is, but they don't have naval warships. They have a couple of helicopters and APCs, but that's already it. They'd never act as if they were a country of their own though and if they participate in wars, it's because they've got hired. Also, they don't wage war to get new technologies or anything, or could you imagine Blackwater trying to raid Area 51?

I'm sorry, but did you bother to actually check anything out on Blackwater before you decided to use them as an example?

Sure, they're a private company - but ... and this is where English gets tricky ... they're MUCH larger than a military sized company, which is where I think the confusion comes in.

A military company normally consists of 3 - 4 platoons, so you're talking about maybe 150 - 200 people, tops. Blackwater owns 4 training facilities and has trained 50,000 people in the last 10 years. That's about 4 DIVISIONS worth of troops. They own considerably more than a couple of helicopters and APC's - as in, at a minimum, 18 Bell 214's (similar to the old Huey), 20 Super Tucano Light Attack Aircraft, another 20 some odd fixed wing turbo-props with guns on them similar to the old Puff-the Magic Dragon, they manufacture their own LINE of APC's (as in full factory), and they DO have their own Navy, too.

So while Blackwater individual troops are the capwhores of Disco, as a company, they're quite in line with being their own, private army - that could field 14,000 troops within 30 days if needed. Did anyone mention Bounty Hunters Guild CORE anywhere in here, or how things will be set up in 4.85?

I could mention the similarities between Blackwater, having their own production company, and what they do with something that currently exists on the Disco Server - because guess what? If Blackwater needed it, I bet they'd get their own space ships. Or perhaps they already have them....

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.