The Order of the Lion

[Zig]

Going to quote Jake here, which'll probably make my post more compact. Answering your questions, mwerte. Thanks for the good review, by the way.

Undoubtedly somebody will get bored or overzealous and cruise around Gamma looking for a fight, but hey, the Coalition have aquired a few crossbows so I'm we can find a rack or two.

Good way of putting it.

Well, as I've read in the recent arguements over the Corsairs pirating in 49, apparently we Bretonians don't know it's there. I guess however that we may eventually trace them to Canaria, and in that case we may even seize a little funding off the Zoners in exchange for keeping the location secret:P

Going to have to correct Jake here and say that we intend to know all about Omega-49. Frankly, the crusaders'd have to be damn fools and walk around with our eyes firmly shut not to take heed of the rampant Corsair piracy in that system and the steady stream of pilots and liberated loot passing between Omicron Gamma and forty-nine.

The 'founding fathers' I guess you could call them, if not for the fact that it's an American term, are mostly Lords, following their rights and responsibilites as Lords. Some of them are bound to have -some- cash, which should help there, and perhaps the Fireflies could be used for making more, rather than being restricted to hauling supplies between bases. Who knows? There are so many ways to make cash in a universe as large as Sirius. Maybe we could even sell Corsair prisoners to Hunters or Outcasts, although that wouldn't be a very knightly thing to do.

This was my main concern while I was mulling over this idea. We have a solution in mind. You probably missed it, mwerte; I included something in the Sphere of Influence section about our funding; basically, we maintain supply ships, most likely Fireflies, that I intend to have function just like regular trading convoys. We'll haul any legal cargo between Bretonia, Liberty, and Rheinland. We also have a main supply route plotted out, you can find it in the same section - I'm not exactly sure whether it's actually viable as a source of credits (I earn my money through bounty hunting, not through trading). It's mainly an abstract roleplay issue. We have a conceptual idea for eventually forming an APM-style Order-of-the-Lion-affiliated trading ring; we're considering making it a small company of BMM affiliated, largely owned by Equity Lords participating in the crusade. We're not implementing that at this point in time, though.

Jake's idea about selling off captured pilots is a good one; to the Bounty Hunters, not to the Outcasts, though. What good is a realistic crusade if we take out the healthy coat of tarnish, after all?

Not so sure about this one. I doubt we'll be making serious use of Freeports, seeing as the Zoners tend to be angry when you use them to shoot up opposing factions, but we'll see how it travels.

Pretty much this. Eventually, it'd be great to be allowed to construct our own base, perhaps in Omicron Theta.

Hey, we're chivalrous. What kind of self-respecting Lord would lower themselves to hookers? Apart from that, I'm not the best person to answer.

A self-respecting Lord might not lower himself to hookers, but the average crusader might, and sure did in a historical context. The supplies the crusade needs to maintain its momentum will be ferried along our main supply route, and certainly well-guarded.

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Luls:

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