Gaians and Corsairs

[BaconSoda]

Regarding the military thing: I agree, with reservations. Hessians and outcasts, okay. How friendly they are is an important point to think about, though. But the gaians? They're not fighting a war. A military alliance doesn't make sense when you're not fighting a war.
They don't get the ability to fund themselves, they get the ability to be funded by the corsairs. If you're a faction fighting for political change, what helps your stance more: an alliance with a very popular government lobbying group who wants the same thing as you, or a group or bloodthirsty pirates who want to kill everyone?
The Gaian's link with the Green Front helps them. Why would they want to get rid of it?

The better question is, why wouldn't they have their cake and eat it too? Just like it isn't public knowledge that the FA and Hogosha pirate people while the KNF/KSP turn a blind eye, it doesn't have to be common knowledge that the Gaians are getting help from the Corsairs. The people who are close to the Gaians know, and if they are still so fervent to help Gaia, they will believe that the cause still has merit, and stick with it, those who do not will withdraw their funding, at which point the artifact smuggling will come into play.

On another note, what is saying that the Gaians aren't bribing some Cambridge professors with artifacts from the Corsairs? That might turn more than a few eyes on the planet...

As for Hogosha and FA? I think the fact no one says "Hogosha" without saying "and FA" is proof enough of that one right now. Plus, not only are they allied with corsairs, and each other, they're also mired under alliances with Samura and the KNF. The emperor of Kusari is telling people to join the AFA and Hogosha in his sig :lol:. Right now, those two are pretty much just the result of adding their allies together.

I meant how the Corsairs have affected them, which is very little. They are close allies, and they have many of the same activities, yes, but, there are large differences between the FA and the Hogosha. They seem subtle, because they hardly come up ingame, however, they are a large part of the respective factions' RPs.

The AFA and the gaians have been working closely together for awhile now, in roleplay meetings and the sort. I know that the factions do not represent the entirety of the factions in Disco- but that is how I saw things. The AFA and gaians moving towards a way to preserve farmland in the processs of farming. Now, this refining leads to a larger production of food allowing the farmers to compete with the synth food price attack.

Oooh! I've wanted to say this forever!

The Gaians wouldn't like Synth Foods for one simple reason: They have destroyed the natural ecosystem of Planet Stuttgart. Many of the old farms are now failing because of the terraforming gases and heavy fertilizers pumped into the planet. The atmosphere is no longer the same combustible, firestorm-waiting-to-happen furball it once was and the ground is no longer the same composition it was. I do think a group of Cambridge Scientists would find out about this eventually, and be appalled...

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.