The Order of the Lion

[pipboy]

pipboy - bretonia will not be fighting on two fronts. a paramilitarian force that has seperated itself from the BAF and the citizens of bretonia will be fighting the corsairs. we are still allied to them, but (hopefully) act seperately. We will also be generating our own supplies, and will not be stupid and attack when we cannot afford to. you should also read above posts, as some of your comments have been answered to before

Let's go out on a limb and say you're successful and start making trouble for the Corsairs. When they retaliate where do you think they are going to strike?

Bretonia.

And thus, Bretonia will be fighting a war on two fronts thanks to the actions of your order. Not because you are with the BAF but rather because you started something that you aren't powerful enough to finish.

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.

I'm afraid you're getting confused between in game lore and RP, and the actions of dozens of mostly indie Corsair pilots which have very little real effect on overall Corsair RP.

Lore states that the Corsairs are extremely powerful, organized, and wealthy. They do not hover around a docking ring, but rather expand their sphere of influence at every opportunity.

The dozens of indie Corsair players that hover around Crete do the opposite. Does that mean that the in game lore is wrong? No, it just means that a bunch of pilots are hovering around Crete.. You can't base a faction RP off of a bunch of people hovering around a docking ring for no good reason. That's not RP, that's OORP.

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