The Order of the Lion

[Zig]

Mmkay, you raise some concerns I need to address. Better discuss them one by one.

No, our ZoI doesn't include all Corsair areas except Gamma. It includes, in fact, all Corsair areas; Gamma's no exception. Now, hold your horses, don't explode! That only means that the Order of the Lion is permitted to enter Omicron Gamma without being considered out-of-bounds and out-of-roleplay and subject to a sanction. ZoI is largely a rules matter. In practice, we won't be entering Gamma outside of concerted, planned pushes and events (which I'd hope would be possible if the various Corsair factions might be willing to extend a little trust to me and the Order's concept). There won't be any lolzergs on your home system, nor will we be raiding Gamma on an hourly basis, nor will you be seeing lone knights flying loops around Planet Crete. Please have some faith in us on this. Our ultimate goal is to lay siege to Gamma, and that won't be accomplished a day after our faction is born. We're not "a bunch of Freelancers", by the way, we're a warhost of crusaders. The Freelancer ID is a makeshift solution; look at the Colonial Remnant or the Harvesters for precedent.

The Dublin matter is exactly the same as the Omicron Gamma matter. We can enter Dublin without being sanctioned, that's all its inclusion in our ZoI map means. We may, in fact, end up moving troops or supplies through there (I honestly don't know, don't quote me on this, I have no idea what role Dublin will play as of yet), but we won't be fighting Mollys or upholding Bretonian law there. That's a job we leave firmly in the hands of the BAF and BPA. Banza, at least, as the MR's Michael Carruth, is okay with the Order of the Lion. By and large, we're going to be staying out of Bretonia. If we enter, it's only for the reasons I gave LeMaitre, or because we're transporting something.

We don't expect the Hessians to like us, and we don't like them. If they choose to pirate our supply convoys or outright attack crusaders, we'll accept that and fight back with glee. On the other side of the coin, it's possible that the Hessians and the Order might assist each other against overly large Corsair forces, but that'd happen off the books, as it were, and was already addressed extensively a few pages back.

As to Omega-49, even if one chooses to believe that the Bretonian government isn't aware of the system's existence, the matter of the Order of the Lion is an entirely different one. Historically, the Crusaders served as functional mapmakers and trailblazers for the Arabic content just as much as they did as fighters. We're bound to turn up information and make charts, it's only a matter of time. How efficiently such knowledge as we will gather can be relayed to the Queen, however, is an entirely different affair.

About your last comment: I'd like to ask you and the other Corsairs here choosing to view the crusade somewhat skeptically to have a little more faith in me and my fellow factionees. Yes, I and some of my friends here in the Order have an extensive history of frying Corsairs, and yes, we did so most frequently in the Omicrons, including Omicron Gamma. This faction isn't an excuse for shooting Corsairs en masse. If I wanted that, I could just as easily take my BHG| or Freelancer over to give some of you a beating. The purpose behind this faction is to enable roleplaying a crusade, which I find to be a really good idea and downright exciting. Seems the idea's catching on with others, too. Just... view the Order of the Lion with a little less prejudice, please. You probably think of me as Zak Mason, but hell, I didn't write this faction up for me to go about Zak Masonesque pursuits. With a little logic, it's easy to see that I could just get on Zak Mason for that.

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