The Order of the Lion

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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 news articles around Discovery are fairly distant from actual roleplay established by Discovery players. Hell, there's an article on any base you care to name now screaming about the advent of Gallia, whereas people here are, for the most part, roleplaying Gallia as a novelty and a secret, known about by few and definitely not by Sirius as a whole.

Here's another example, one that ought to hit closer to home - the BAF's been consistently beating the KNF back serverside, yet now, in 4.85, Kusari's managed to conquer half of Leeds. Why is that, do you think? Possibly because abstract roleplay and serverside actions often outright conflict? My instinct would be to rely on what Discovery's players have actually gotten done.

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.

Technically, yeah. In a certain sense. On the other hand, vigilantism implies a form of, well, rebellion against established law enforcement. That's not what we're doing - we intend to have official approval. Besides, vigilantes tend to conjure up a gun-slingin' Wild West outlaw picture for me - we're crusaders, not Wild Bill Hickocks. We're not taking justice into our own hands - we're simply extending its reach. Making the long arm of the law even longer.

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...

You know why we're not intending to make use of the Vigilante ID. I've outlined it above. We're not "coming to Gamma to kill Corsairs". Dusty Lens asked us the same question a page back and we explained the matter to him. About the credits matter, we're going to be discussing that with the admins at length. We're, after all, not Freelancers in the traditional sense - we're just making do with what seems like the best fit for us at the moment.

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Luls:

Role-play is not the be all and end all.