Gaians and Corsairs

[ugliestmoose]

I have trouble buying this. In real life, I would have to use the Sinn Fein/IRA links as an example, Sinn Fein have, in the past, had links to the IRA. They cut links to them due to being in favour of due political process.

When the Gaians are terrorists who commit murder to keep lifeless rocks lifeless, they aren't going to get support.

Now, the Green Front might get support, like Greenpeace do in real life, but that doesn't mean that the people will support the Gaians. In fact, the people would probably hate the Gaians, since they're treasonous, murdering terrorists. Even those that agree with their goals would likely dislike them for making them look bad.

For instance, would Greenpeace activists support murder in the name of the environment? I doubt it. Would they support treason? I doubt that too.

Hell, in real life, the Earth Liberation Front don't get support from Greenpeace, despite not killing anyone, only doing property damage. They don't have mass support. Those with similar goals dislike them. Add to the fact that the Gaians rob and kill people like any other criminal and you lose lots of support.

Also, you go on about in-game RP altering the diplomacy and such (and I really think the Gaians should be shooting up Samura Heavy Industry). I've seen little in-game RP convincing me that the Gaians are anything but terrorists and murderers with no public support. I have, however, seen Bretonian officials letting the people know that they're criminals of the worst sort. I've also seen propaganda messages which seem like threats. The sort of thing that will make the people act like cornered badgers instead of happy sheep.

Humans aren't herd animals, anyway... they're pack animals, like wolves, jackals and the like.:D

Hm, blunt has a point here. The Gaians are basically radicals who have sided with an invading force; somehow I find it difficult to believe that they would still maintain any kind of popular support in Bretonia. The way I see it, the more visible, 'centrist' Green Front that's active on Cambridge would want to cut ties with the Gaians because it only hurts their own reputations to be associated with traitors to Bretonia (kind of a problem when you're holding a public office).

So I'm afraid something's gotta go: either the Gaians end their Kusari alliance or they break all ties with Bretonia and the Green Front. Personally, since you guys have a lot of established RP with Kusari factions and have pretty much zero sympathy from the Brets:P, I would think you'd stick to your new Kusari bedfellows and hope that the Bretonian government is crippled.


The more I think about the Gaians, however, the more the obvious truth becomes clearer to me: they were originally a filler faction thrown in without a fully developed background or ideology, under the bizarre premise of Greenpeace Gone Wild :)(Mind you, I think the Mollys are a pretty weak concept as well...just goes to show you what the developers thought of the Brits:P). And now it's up to the players to clean up the mess...I feel for ya Marburg (and all you other Gaians), you don't have a lot to work with here, but it is a unique concept and kudos for turning it away from "come hug the trees with us."