The Order of the Lion

[Hawkwings]

The Corsairs do indeed have many opponents. You're perfectly right when you point out that this'll divide Corsair responses. However, even if the Corsairs were capable of mounting an organized response against the Order in the form of a "battleship squadron" against us (whether in terms of abstract roleplay or in terms of actual player base), two factors would enable us to defend: firstly, that every base we've chosen to maintain a presence on is surrounded by a handy asteroid field that'll leave heavy warships dead in the water, and secondly, the average Corsair is, frankly, a poor fighter. Almost without exclusion, when I fight serverside against a Corsair force, it greatly outnumbers me or me and the others with me - we tend to win regardless. We intend to have every Crusader of the Lion maintain a bomber and to be a capable bomber pilot. Superior equipment and numbers can only take one so far - a skilled opposing force will rout even a "battleship squadron" like the one you suggested, whether ingame or in matters of general roleplay.

This is all fine and dandy for player PVPing, but what about the "real" NPC response?

1. Corsairs are known as some of the best pilots in Sirius.
2. Corsairs fly and fight in asteroid fields too.
3. Corsairs have much more resources than you do.

Now, this doesn't mean you can't fight them. It just means that stand up fights are out of the question, as you seem to have said as well. This means ambushes, raids, etc. Sneaky stuff, in other words. Real "stand up fights" would be rare between you guys and the Corsairs, and would probably best be represented by actual PVP events.

Besides, if a Corsair fleet really wanted to (in-RP) destroy a base in an asteroid field, they could always just vaporize a path to the base through the rocks.

Basically, I honestly think that the Order as it'll (hopefully!) be implemented ingame will have an excellent chance at defeating the Corsair zergs that'll doubtlessly be thrown at us. 'Course, clever use of our surroundings (i.e. asteroid fields) will help, as well.

Do you intend for your entire "Order" to be just the players, with no "NPC" pilots? If so, then you are even less of a threat to the Corsairs. If not, then you have "NPC" pilots as well that go do missions and will lose pilots to the Corsair NPCs that oppose them.

Another point to address: Bretonian fighters and bombers are the property of the Bretonia Armed Forces. Just because you flew for them for X number of years doesn't mean that you get to take your fighter home with you. Now, with rich backers, you guys would probably be able to buy a limited number of military fighters, but I forsee, at the most, you only being able to get your hands on a couple bombers. After all, they need those to counter the Kusari battleship threat coming in from the north.

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