The Order of the Lion

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My comments here should be taken as a Corsair player - not as an Admin.
I have to side with some of the others though - and perhaps i am overly cynical, but I'll place bets that we see this noble group in Omicron Gamma more often than not.

Reason being is that the Corsair population in Omega 41 and 5 is always transitory - its going somewhere else, Cambridge, Omega 3 Omega 47 to 49 - the largest static Corsair population is the ones that loiter around Crete - so, if you guys aren't finding Corsairs in the Omegas, where else are you going to go other than Gamma? And to be fair, the Corsairs don't need another marauding group of folks in Gamma, we already have the Hessians, Outcasts, Mercenarys, Bounty Hunters and Keepers thankyou very much (and i'm sure im forgetting someone there).
If this group were dedicated to fighting Corsairs WITHIN Brettonian space i would be less cynical - if this is indeed NOT a military faction but a group of "concerned Brettonians" - how would they ever mass the resources to mount raids into Corsair space anyway? which - lets be honest, doesn't just house Corsairs - you're also going to come up against Hessians - and even though their server presence is low; the Wilde.

While i think the proposal looks nice - i am dubious about how it would work in game.

Well, okay, I suppose I'd better straighten the matter of whether or not the Order can be considered a military force out. What we're decidedly NOT is a part of the Bretonian Armed Forces. Some crusaders may be former Armed Forces officers, and we may fly Armed Forces transponder colors (to set a sign that our cause serves the Commonwealth). However, the Order might, in fact, be considered a form of military all its own. As established, we're not vigilantes and don't see ourselves as such. We're crusaders. Knights-errant. The historical chivalric orders participating in the Crusades (Knights Hospitalers, Knights Templars, Knights Teutonics) were effectively military organizations, whether or not they referred to themselves as such. If 4.84's Military ID were still around, that might be an excellent choice for us. As is, we're identifying ourselves as Freelancers because that comes closest to fitting or being compatible with our established goals. So, I suppose we could be called militaristic in nature, although we're not Bretonian Armed Forces. We are, however, allied to and cooperating with them. Going to go back and edit an earlier response of mine to Baconsoda to reflect that.

About your bet? I'll take it, and double the stakes. I repeat, we're not planning to go lolzerg Omicron Gamma on an hourly basis. Events that take us into that system would no doubt happen. We'd organize coordinated efforts. However, by and large, we're not going to be slipping past the Corsair Empire's border defenses to shoot a Centurion or two in your home system. We'll need to play a more defensive game and breach your outer walls first. The name of the game is siege. I'd like to personally vouch for the eleven people that have joined the Order so far - there won't be any OORP originating from these guys. We'd screen recruits thoroughly, too; judging by the response we've gotten so far, the idea of joining a crusade seems to be pretty popular, so we'll work out an effective system for dealing with applicants. I bet we can handle it, too.

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