The Order of the Lion

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I am amazed at the requirement for this.
I'm quite happy for it to go ahead. As has been stated, Zig is a BHG guildmaster so he won't be fighting as BHG and Knight (Is that the right title?)
Lets be honest, it's just another excuse for an in-road into corsair space. People have been looking for an excuse to do this for ages. It doesn't matter how it gets dressed up.
Form another faction, recruit more members to fight the corsairs!
BHG roam throughout the Omegas and Omicrons, concentrating within one or two systems of Omicron Gamma, raiding frequently.
RHA raid into Gamma from time to time, along with their new found allies the SCRA. Their ZOI is almost identical to the corsairs. With the war between Liberty and Rheinland, theres talk of the Hessians all but abandoning the attacks on Rheinland concentrating instead further 'south'.
BAF allied Mollys are now based in Cambridge attacking hispanic pirates while defending their enemies, the Bretonians, sometimes roaming now as far a field as Omega 3.
With regard to the Battleship Norfolk. Lets not be silly here. It's not even close to being effective, the Mollys have managed to fund, build and equip a fully functioning pirate base there within a stones throw of it.
Talking of which, the Bretonians see the corsairs as possibly the biggest threat?
Haven't they noticed?
The Mollys have opened up a second front in Cambridge. I think they need to look again at their priorites. They are fighting a war on their northern borders with Kusari and losing, to the southeast, the corsairs and to the west, southeast and in the heartlands, the Mollys who are also increasing their powerbase at the expense of Bretonia. The least of these three, given their position strategically are the corsairs. Bretonia even admit there is a massive gap between Gamma and New London.

A small group of dedicated warriors who manage to maintain a front, nay eventually break the enemies lines and attack the very heart of the nation the Bretonian military consider to be possibly their greatest threat and they are going to do this out of their own pockets, without taking the massive bounties offered?
As for trade routes, what would these trade routes be through the Omicrons/Omegas?
Bretonia has managed fine without the need for them. Why would some small orgainisation really need anything from the borderworlds (except possibly artifacts, or even the things that made them)?
The Wilde are not seen as a serious threat...maybe there is a connection afterall....

As far as I'm concerned, go for it. Bretonains are going to be real happy that fully equiped ships of war with good pilots are abondoning the front for some ideal. The Corsairs are attacking!
The corsairs have no bases in Bretonia.
The Mollys have just aquired another one. Thats Dublin, New London and Cambridge.
Kusari are invading and in case it's escaped your attention, winning, roaming at will throughtout northern Bretonia. They have made inroads into Leeds, one jump from the very heart of Bretonia and seat of the Royal Crown and you guys want to go wage war on a people, four systems away through irradiated systems, minefields, asteroid fields, one official warzone and very hostile space (see: Hessian/SCRA/Wilde for 'hostile').
Wow, the soldiers and civilians in Leeds must be real grateful to you for saving them from the corsair menace.

If I was a Guildmaster of the BHG, I might even sponsor such an Order. Give them ships and tech. Great idea. Good pilots are hard to come by and the BHG have enough ships. What about the SD?
They might be ready, willing and able to help. They have a very similar agenda (at least the Bretonian arm of the SD do).

All in all, it appears on the outside to be a thinly veiled excuse to pvp specifically with corsairs. Shame really, because it has potential. It's just limiting itself.
Either way, good luck with it, whatever you decide to do.

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