Ask Discovery: Order/Corsair Alliance

[Xoria]

I think those are some exceptionally important issues that you raised in your last post, Gronath, and I wish you had brought them to the Development forum a long time ago, but it's not too late in an ultimate sense. Strategic thinking would be a breath of fresh air after months of niggling over details and stats.

From the perspective of Outcasts and Corsairs, I can see both of those groups striving very hard to build hegemony for themselves among the other outlaw groups. I can also see some of those groups chomping that bait, and others pushing back against it. The history of organized crime is one of my areas of personal study, and the main thing it demonstrates is that there are really no hard and fast rules or logic to determine how working relationships pan out. Watching pop culture you might think that the Italian New York five families ran everything, but there was a period of time not long ago when one black guy in Harlem was able to hold major sway over all of them. How? He had the connections that they didn't, and they needed what he could offer. So what "should" happen from the standpoint of reason and the surface level view of organizational structures is not always the inevitable outcome.

Of course, the problem here is that we're just making all of it up as we go along, and the power plays are designed and not the result of actual opposed outcomes. So logic and reason plays a part, but I think there is plenty of room for "weird" outcomes. Truth is stranger than fiction all too often, after all.

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