The Order of the Lion

[BaconSoda]

Too much to quote, there, Baconsoda, so I'll just answer you like this.

The Corsairs are, frankly, not "semi-docile because of the Wilde problem". The Wilde are a nuisance to the Corsair Empire, nothing more. Given that the Wilde's server presence is also extremely low, I'd judge their potential threat to the Corsairs as a whole as being negligible. There's a viable opening here for a crusade to be called into being. There, I'm just going to have to flatly disagree with you based on obvious evidence.

Obvious evidence that contradicts the RP present in the news articles? That isn't quite obvious if it isn't there. The Wilde's server presence doesn't eliminate their RP presence. In RP, the Corsairs are hard pressed, as are the Hessians, to fight off the Wilde everytime they come. It isn't apparent in the fact that the Wilde faction raids Cadiz every Thursday at 1900 GMT, or anything like that, but it's apparent in the news articles.

The Norfolk is evidently not capable of holding the Cambridge Line. It's simply failing in that task. As the faction document points out, the BAF doesn't have the resources to deal with the Corsairs behind Bretonian borders efficiently or really at all, so the Order of the Lion takes matters into its own hands.

William of Acre and his men would plainly disagree with you there when you say that the Corsairs are the second-biggest threat. They view the Corsairs as the greatest risk to Bretonian safety and are ready and willing to counter it if the Bretonian Armed Forces cannot and will not.

You, my fine sir, have just defined a vigilante faction. It takes matters into its own hands because it feels that the army and law enforcement cannot do enough. That is a vigilante.

The Freelancer ID is a makeshift solution, something like the Colonial Remnant (poor example, possibly, but hey) making use of an IMG ID in 4.84. Please don't confuse us with bounty hunters or self-employed mercenaries. We wouldn't accept credits for simply fulfilling the Crusaders' oath every Knight of the Lion swears to wipe out the Corsair menace. In fact, I'm considering making just that one of the Order's tenets. The Vigilante ID doesn't permit entry into the Omicrons - besides, the term "vigilante" smacks of disaffected citizens gathering up torches and pitchforks. We're an organized, coordinated, and governmentally sanctioned warhost rallying against the Corsair Empire. In fact, the Order even makes sense from a budgetary or troop allocation point of view - we're covering those bases the BAF is too busy to cover themselves.

So the reason you've decided to use the Freelancer ID instead of the Vigilante ID is because it doesn't let you into the Omicrons? Is that really a pain to a faction which has claimed to want to operate in the Omegas where the Corsairs' forward outposts are located? If that doesn't reek of just wanting to come to Gamma and kill Corsairs, I don't know what does..

Furthermore, if you're not going to accept credits for your work, I can see a rules problem coming up very quickly...

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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.