[Junker] -=- The Independent Junkers Movement -=-

[slashhammer]

As it seems this is causing quite some work and kind of a riot.
I'll try to answer all questions that have come up and will
consider a few changes after I've spoken with our members.



@Linkus

I don't really mean to attack this but it just makes no sense.
If you are independant Junkers, why do you have the tag?
If you are working together under a faction tag, you are not independant.

I can see your point and I understand it can and does confuse quite some of the
established players on Discovery to see a faction full of "independents" and that it
might seem unlogical as well at the first viewing.

Of course we're different to regular independents, of course we do have some kind
of structure, and of course also we do have some very basic "rules" that our members
have to obey.

But the idea behind forming this group/faction was and still is to have a home for independent
Junker affiliated characters for organizational purposes, to make it easier to find friends to
teamup with and also to achieve some other goals.

What we will not have is a militarical structure as I personally believe freedom is paramount,
we will not have yet another package of faction rules in addition to the yet very numerous
server-, ID- and equipmentrules that have to be obeyed anyways.

It's yet hard enough to obey them all - in particular for new players.

Open your mind and be willing to see us as a faction that has a different interpretion of the
word "Independence" as it's used to be seen on Discovery.

I'm a democrat from the bottom of my heart and a very liberal one as well, that's what our
(my) philosophie does reflect.

Another major goal of our faction is to be attractive to new players, helping them to get familiar
with Discovery and it's peculiarities, to get them familiar with RP.

I am very sure there will be quite some of us being seen as active RP'ers on the forums soon
when they've developed a sense for it.

Again, independent means to our members, that they won't be ordered around, they still can do
what they did when they were untagged, but they allways have the chance to teamup with other
members - so this is basicly not much different to what most factions on Disco are like, we just
give it a name "independence". All can nothing must. And for sure we encourage our members
to help each other, sure that's what friends are for, but we won't force them to do so.

Apart from all that our papers were just posted yesterday, the whole idea was developed about
3 days ago, so give us some time to evolute.



@ Turkish

I think you should change your tag. That is just me however.

The precise Vanilla tag is "Junkers" (plural) not "Junker" (singular) like ours,
so this won't change, at least not now.


@ Athur

It`s amazing how many independent Junkers are out there who desperatly want to form a group. The [Junker] movement was indeed an independent one and it developed like a snowslide.
I wish you good luck, cya in space [Junkers].

Diplomacy - the stats I've posted do reflect our stance towards npc factions at the very first place,
diplomatics between us and other player factions need to be developed in RP, of course.
But for that we will need time - don't we?

Possible ships and equipment are dictated by the rules/ID's so no need (yet) to have a specific list
for that as I see it.

"An independent faction sounds peculiar" - possibly, but does this automatucally mean something wrong?
To be "peculiar" or "special" doesn't automaticly mean to be wiered or even bad in what sense ever, does it?

Like I already wrote to Turkish, the original Vanilla tag is "Junkers" not "Junker", but I've to confess
this is a bit knitpicking - as you know originally I picked that tag by fault and it was meant to be Junkers,
but how things developed now I think it was destiny that caused that "fault" and to be honest, I'd never
thought when I created my Junker char to get so many followers within a few days.

So there must have been a urge for such kind of a faction/group.

The idea behind my choice was also to state obviously my affiliation to be attractive to possible
employers for reference - like when a pirate group is looking for a transport to take care of the
debris they generate when pirating someone (also npc's of course).

So I don't think that the tag should be changed as then the idea behind it would lose its base.

Once again, the diplomatic stats I've setup reflect our stance towards npc factions at the very
first place - player factions are a different thing and relations must be developed in RP.


@Tinkerbell

Looking forward to being around Junkers period--so good luck.

Thank you for your good wishes and we're looking forward to interact with the Junkers Congress
and the JNS.

It might be sensefull to consider an alliance between the 3 of us (maybe also OTC & 49'ers as they're
Junker affiliated factions as well). But this would be needed to be done in the Diplomatic matters section
I'd say.


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This was quite a lot of work for me as I'm no nativespeaker and I hope I could answer all
questions so far and generate more understanding for who we are and what we are.

I don't take anything as a personal attack, at least not as long as it's constructive criticism
which is much appreciated, and finally this is "just" a game even though when Discovery
managed to get it far beyond then it was ever thought of.

Looking forward to see all of you in space and on the forums.

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Cheers

John

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