Queen Carina's Most Diligent Interdiction Wing, more commonly known as Queen Carina's Privateers, are the controversial brainchild of Sir Andrew Stuart, a roguish Bretonian Armed Forces Admiral gone renegade with his band of extremely patriotic scoundrels.
They came to be thanks to Stuart's treatise on interdicting hostile trade as a means of crippling their wartime production and generating much needed income. Thanks to this idea, inspired by historical pirates and privateers, he and his men were granted Letters of Marque, to enable them to, effectively, get away with robbing people, so long as they were assisting enemies of the Crown.
This rapidly brought much in the way of accusations of war-crimes, vehemently denied by the Privateers, who state that it is better to defeat a foe's economy than to slaughter millions of conscripts. The Kusari government, of course, cared little for this claim (be it true or false), made by these Bretonian pirates.
They would attempt to use political leverage with Liberty and Rheinland to hurt Bretonia thanks to these terribly effective thieves, who are potentially the most hated men and women in Kusari, in spite of being much loved by Bretonians of all stripes, be they the poor workers seeing them stealing from rich Kusari corporations and use the proceeds to mock them by spending some of their ill gotten gains on assisting the defence of Leeds and Harris, or be they the privileged elite, who often see them as romantic dashing heroes, much like in the period dramas about pirates that flood the NeuralNet.
Due to the condemnation of their illegal actions, the Bretonian Government had to distance themselves from the Privateers, at least in the public eye. They were cast out, operating from remote bases, such as the BMM Gate Construction Site in Tau 23, and often turning up at Trafalgar Station, the Junker base in New London, to fence goods stolen from their mutual enemy, the Kusari.
Thankfully, the Bretonian Police Authority and the Bretonian Armed Forces could not arrest them. After all, they had not committed any offence against the Crown. They just couldn't associate with them.
This allowed the formerly official Bretonian Armed Forces Interdiction Wing to use its own initiative more, to do controversial things which they believed would aid Bretonia. They are now believed to associate with Junkers quite regularly, as well as Golden Chrysanthemums. There are even unsubstantiated rumours that they have been attempting to get the Mollys to assist in driving the Corsairs from the Omegas. They have also attempted to stir up trouble with the Zoners, who have let Corsairs enter Bretonia through the back door. They call their robbery of the Zoners a 'taste of their own neutral medicine'.
Interestingly, in spite of being seen to be a criminal element, Sir Andrew seems to hand-pick his team extremely well, such as the reliable Fortunatus Wright, who led the Privateers whilst Andy spent a period in prison as a part of a government public relations stunt.
They are largely greedy, thieving bastards, out to make a dishonest credit, but in spite of this penchant for picking the scum of Bretonia, he has developed a knack for picking the most loyal dirtbags his home has to offer, making them go through the same tests and trials that it takes to enter the illustrious Bretonian Armed Forces Guard, who are known for defending the most sensitive military installations, and being responsible for the safety of the Queen herself.
At present, Privateers can be found across the Taus and Omegas, doing immense damage to the economy of Her Majesty's foes, be it via piracy and extortion or be it via fraud, such as their sale of non-existent destroyers to Kusari gentlemen.
Love them or hate them, they are known to make things interesting wherever they fly.
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Official Diplomacy
Ships are tagged 'QCP|Pilot's.Name'. They use Bretonian Armed Forces Guard tags and Bretonian Privateer IDs.
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Equipment Used
The QCP use a mixture of Bretonian and civilian equipment. They have a lot of Bretonian vessels left over from their time as an official arm of the Bretonian Armed Forces, but most new vessels tend to be bought from sympathetic civilians with their own, stolen, money. They appear to use Bretonian weapons exclusively, it being easier to slip a few guns off-world than it is to sneak a ship to them.
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Recruitment
Work it out. It isn't hard.
Now, I don't have a memberlist on there, but it is sufficiently large. It will be put up soon. And, yes, this is a split from BAF| as a faction.
Also, this is a faction request, not a feedback thread, remember that.;)
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