The Order of the Lion

[Zig]

To be utterly honest, Zig, think about this from the Admiralty's eyes.

Your armed civilians would be of MUCH better use in Leeds, then they could ever be in Gamma. Bretonia does NOT need two house-sized enemies attacking them from both ends of their space, because your little pipsqueak squadron decided to go piss the Corsairs off.

Also, by and by, the Zoners will NOT let you use their freeports as bases, nor will they let you build your own base in their systems. I doubt you can bring enough snubships to fight off the Zoners in their homesystem just so you can build a base.

It's my firm belief that our "little pipsqueak squadron" is capable of facing the Corsairs. That is, both in terms of the Corsair player base and in terms of the abstract Corsair Empire. My arguments as to that can be found a page or two back. I've always been of the opinion that the (in-roleplay) actions of the players representing NPC factions influence said factions to a certain degree, right down to the purely theoretical parts. The Corsairs cannot organize to attack Bretonia and would not organize to attack Bretonia. The Corsairs are vulnerable, and the Order of the Lion is trained and equipped to exploit those vulnerabilities. If the Corsairs launched an attack against Bretonia, the Empire would only become even more vulnerable and even more likely to break apart at the seams. As the Order operates far away from Bretonia and politically separately to a large degree, launching a revenge operation against Bretonia, beyond not being feasible, wouldn't even make sense - that'd be like Saladin invading England during the historical Third Crusade.

Zoners own exactly one system - Omicron-74. That's it. Omicron Theta is unclaimed space. Any such base would be well-hidden and even better-protected, namely by the bulk of the crusade's forces.

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Luls:

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