Coalition of Guidance (CoG|)

[sovereign]

It is, as you so nicely stated, up to the Hellfire Legion.

The person you said that to is the Hellfire Legion. More or less.

Running a faction out of Special Operative IDs entirely is.. well, ehem (EDIT: been addressed, moving right along)... and you can't be neutral to everyone. Having a Spyglass makes Liberty hate you without question, and the Lane Hackers/Hellfire Legion as well if they didn't let you have it. Your story also makes it quite clear that the Lane Hackers will hate you with a fiery passion, and will likely ask their close allies the Rogues and Outcasts to hate you too. So that's a lot of enemies right off that bat- going near Liberty or the upper Omicrons is suicide for such people.

Then there's the matter of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"- except... the enemies of the Lane Hackers are just Liberty, and Liberty hates anyone with a Spyglass. People don't just "take in" renegade warships, they have to look out for themselves. And a team who promises to infiltrate anyone for the right price? Good luck finding shelter, you're more likely to be shot on suspicion of conducting "business". The Zoners might- might grant you asylum if you handed your LH ships back after a stunt like that (with the understanding that if you ever tried to infiltrate them they would kill you to a man) and then you'd basically just be Freelancers with some enemies and some friends if you try hard enough-

Which is really all you should be in the first place.

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