The Order of the Lion

[Zig]

Yes they are they are as dangerous as a house. Don't forget the vanilla "Road to Rheinland" plan. Now here in Disco we played it out in game and the Corsairs lost. But the in game news and rumors placed the Corsairs as just as powerful as Rheinland with a very realistic chance of conquering the entire house.

I'm sorry but the Corsairs, if they chose to do so, could smash you like a mosquito. If they found out where you are operating from they would destroy your base in Omega 3 or wherever it is (I forgot). And with Bretonia so occupied with Kusari they would not be able to spare much of anything to help you.

This whole operation is something that could spell doom for Bretonia. The Corsairs are not fighting a war the size of the one that Bretonia is fighting right now, and therefore can spare entire fleets to handle you if needed. The last thing that the Bretonian government would want right now is for your group to piss off the Corsairs, the equivalent of stirring up a nest of hornets, and having the Corsairs focus a couple battle fleets on Bretonia to remove this new threat.

Right now Bretonia can NOT handle a fight on two fronts, and if the Corsairs invaded on a large scale because your Order pissed them off, that would be the end of Bretonia. Their limited forces would be split on two fronts and they would fall apart. Kusari would conquer most of Bretonia and the Corsairs may or may not keep some of the southern systems.

That would be an excellent argument and doubtlessly very true if the Corsairs were capable of summoning up the coordination and organizatorial skill of a banana. Fortunately for the Order, they can't, so we feel validated in assuming that we can, in fact, take the Corsair Empire on, the Knights of the Lion being superior in terms of planning and competence in fights.

The Corsair Empire is a little like the European Union, really - very powerful in theory, but rather ineffective in reality due to the tendency of its members to scheme and politicize against each other and to get hung up on minor details. The Corsairs might, theoretically, be a very powerful force. However, in actuality, the Corsair "Empire" consists of a great deal of absolutely bloody incompetent unaffiliated pilots whose sole purpose in life seems to be valiantly defending Planet Crete's docking ring and of several more organized factions whose half-hearted attempts to guide the unwashed Corsair masses along the road to intelligence and sanity seem sadly ineffectual, and who are themselves beginning to drop in quality (this is only my perception of matters and isn't intended as a flame attempt). The Corsairs the Order of the Lion will be dealing with in practice can't muster a force to "squash us like a mosquito". Hell, I doubt they could even squash a real mosquito - they'd probably need to settle on a chain of command as well as move away from Crete to manage that.

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