Junkers...

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What's never been addressed is what were the game designers thinking when they created Junkers? I think I know. Every house and faction is modeled after something.

Outcasts are Colombian drug lords, Corsairs are Pirates of the Caribbean, the "houses" are after the most "imperial" and "manifest destiny" phases of their 20th century governments. Rogues are "Highwaymen", Mollys are the IRA, Hogosha are Yakuza. Lane hackers are the seedy technical hackers and social engineers of our day--etc., etc.

These are broad generalities (and you can disagree with them) but you get the point. Junkers are simply "Gypsies"--I patterned the Junker Congress after the American revolutionaries and gypsies--there is even a Romany/Gypsy Congress. Sort of a , "What would gypsies be like if they had an American revolution and founded their own country?"

"Gypsies are criminals". Well, no--but many are. Same with Junkers. People eye them warily are skeptical of their motives and watch their belongings because they are a distinct and separate people with their own ways and morality and they shield and hide it mostly from others.

So "smuggler" doesn't mean an APB is out on you and "Junker" doesn't either.

I'm not sure what you are worried about blubba but am happy to explain about anything you want to know. Junkers are diverse--I play one of the diversities in my characters but I don't fully define what all they can be.

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