Peace Protestor Faction

[Quorg]

Wow! I'm pleasantly surprised to see all this feedback.

Since this idea seems to have already caught some attention, I'll try to elaborate before introducing the other idea.
Now, let me make it clear, I don't intend to grow this idea into a full-fledged faction single-handedly; these are just rough ideas that perhaps somebody interested in pursuing this can work with.

With regards to ID's, given the inter-House nature of the movement, I would probably say either Zoner ID, since they are politically neutral (although somewhat problematic because they're usually not political, with the major exception of Zoners Against Slavery), or Freelancer ID, since there are no real Freelancer factions to speak of at the moment.

With regards to the idea of intervening in Omicron Theta... haha... That could end up being a highly risky operation, to say the least. But it would certainly be a lot of fun, even if it ends up with all of us getting pew-pewed to death. Again, this will ultimately be up to whoever takes the idea and runs with it.

With regards to our interactions with Police and Military factions, we would definitely cooperate with one of our members, perhaps the most vocal, or the leader, being hauled off to prison during a protest; it would make great RP and create martyrs for the cause. All they would need to do is say "John Smith, you are under arrest. I will now escort your ship to Sugarland/Fuchu/etc." and lead the way. If the police factions demonstrated their willingness to interact with us by hauling one of us off to prison without levying a large fine (hippies are too poor to pay millions in fines), we would reward their good RP by moving the protest somewhere else. Of course, we would still publicize the imprisonment, but it wouldn't look as bad for them as if they had outright killed the man.

Now, Zelot, you make some good points. If the government chooses to restrict our activity to a certain area, I would leave it up to the leadership of the movement to decide whether to ignore it or not (I'm guessing we would, at the risk of getting arrested). I actually think that RPing getting arrested, so long as we are escorted to a prison station and not merely told, "4m fine or dai," would be great fun. Again, we would not spam system chat. At most, we would send out a systemwide anti-war slogan occasionally, and focus mainly on local chat (but wouldn't spam local, either).

This faction would almost certainly annoy the police and military; that's kind of the point. Our goal is not to ruin their RP, but rather just give them another group to interact with other than pirates and smugglers. We could possibly make things even more interesting by working with other factions (like how wobblies work with the communist party). But that level of detail would be up to the movement's leadership.

In short, although we will likely be persecuted, arrested, or killed, we would have fun doing it.

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ATTENTION SMUGGLERS
The Midnight Express: A Slaver <strike>who doesn't completely realize what he's doing.</strike> (video)

Quorg, you're officially a moron.

...mongs like Quorg being like a malignant little cancer...

Way to be useless, Quorg.