Junkers and You

[Rudo]

alright whats up i'm here in this thread writing a post

first off, i totally agree

secondly, this puts the onus on junkers. we have to work for our place. Flying between malta and texas all day doesn't help anyone except ourselves. Everyone hates us, but we exist and are wealthy because everyone needs us. So in order to strike up this balance, and take on our role of not being trusted by anybody, we need to work on being useful to everyone too, or it will majorly backfire on the faction.

HAI BEN

Yeah, the Malta-Texas run wins us no friends, especially as we <strike>poorly</strike> nail other smugglers doing the same thing. It is indeed all about striking the balance; too far toward throwing one's weight around and a war breaks out. But too far toward being accomodating, and some random fools turn you into a target of opportunity as the faction gets perceived as 'only typing angry letters' in the forum.

I've had a lot of incidents at Yanagi where Junkers would simply be ignored and/or mowed down because of perceived weakness on behalf of certain unlawfuls.

Perfect example of how to do this would be what I've been doing recently: acting as a fence for pirates engaging in cargo piracy. The pirate can blow up people all day without upsetting anything more than he already has, and the junker can land on the lawful bases where the cargo sells for a good price - "it fell off the back of a lorry". It's a perfect system. The pirate doesn't like that he has to bring in some untrustworthy junker to fence all his goods, but he knows it's the only way he's going to make any decent money.

Sirius is full of partnerships of grudging convenience like that. Look at House Police/Corporations and BHG relations; in vanilla, both of the former can barely tolerate the latter's unscrupulous tactics, boorish behavior and bad hygiene.

This is actually more or less the Junker RP that everyone agrees is how the faction should be represented. Pirates squeeze transports, we bring the goods where they sell, everyone leaves happy.

We can act like untrustworthy bastards, but we also have to make ourselves useful to everyone or it's not really going to work out for us.

Everyone is encouraged to do so. Find a nice bored pirate and give him the idea, before he gets it in his head to go hunt Navy in NY because there's nothing else to do. These interactions also lessen the amount of incidents after which I have angry Outcasts sending me "Now I pirate all Congress I see" type messages, because we are helping them (and us) rather than farting around acting all self-serving and stuff.

Sometimes, co-running the faction (by which I mean Hawk does all the day-to-day stuff and I just type grandiose unattainable decrees which I forget about 2 minutes later) is an enormous headache. Other times, Congress guys like the ones weighing in here humble me with their brilliant insight and loyalty.

This whole thread is evidence of why I haven't told Tink to take his 'gift' and stick it in his own private Puerto Rican Rift yet.:P

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