Junker Congress Subfaction:

[Rudo]

Yeah I think I approve of this. It could be done badly (like just having them sit around yanagi or whatever) but I know you Rudo and you wont let it go down like that. This is our drive-by shooting car for when talking fails. As long as they're used rarely and/or wisely, I approve.

Also, what dirty civilian ships are you planning to put in?

The Civilian ships would be more the exception than the rule. The wing should be primarily Junker ships -- the Bull Dog is ideal for this sort of thing, the Junker Bomber is a colossal torpedo-slinging tank and the Waran is a flying power reactor that can fire all the anti-cap armament you could want.

Civilian ships would include ships like the Crow, Eagle/Griffin/Falcon shipline, and the Civilian Bomber. Again, these ships would be the exception rather than the rule. I don't want to hear "this ship is better" or "we're a rich faction and we can afford a whole wing of Rocs" or anything such. Using Junker ships to do dastardly things is like leaving a rose at the scene of the crime. It's about style rather than pvp dominance.

And yes, they're not going to be used much. There are members of the actual Congress who do a fine job on the everyday stuff. This is just the hit squad for when we don't want our hands dirty and don't want to be implicated in the death of someone important. They will be called in for events when they are warranted, or the call will be put out to Skype that someone important is spotted somewhere, and we are to enact a dramatic impression on him before scrubbing him from existence. Seeing them flying about freely on their own, with the exception of setting up or going to PR/Connecticut to practice will lead to bad things happening to that guy. I don't want to even see them online unless they know what they're doing.

We might even decry the Jackals as 'detrimental to our cause' and enforce sanctions (think UN sanctions, not admin sanctions) on them, etc. And there will be no direct proof because of measures I am going to instruct every member of the Congress to take in regards to them.

I'll write up an official document with better-organized details and publish it on these forums as well as our external hub. It's in my gigantic 'To Do' list of paperwork regarding the faction with the new mod.


PS: This is all meta-knowledge. If I see this thrown at us later on because I said it here OOC I am going to be upset. I'm just putting it here to set an example of laying our cards down for all to see. Many factions have reams of documents and lore that have never made it to the public, so when they do certain things it's lost on people 'not in the know'.

I am trying to steer the Congress toward transparency, especially when it comes to building a "secret" strike force that may make someone not expecting to be swarmed by fighters upset. The more people know what we do and why we do it, the more they will understand us and the better they can play with us.

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