Corsair Order alliance

[NonSequitor]

You guys arent getting the big picture.

The Order is not 'heroic' in the sense that its lawful. Its also using unlawful methods. For example it blew up the Donau in the SP campain, also killing hundreds of innocent people that had nothing to do with it, and probably did other similar actions, as hinted in some SP news reports.

If all humanity were just a bunch of pirates, they would be fighting for those pirates. They wouldnt say 'nomads are better than us because we kill each other, so let them kill us'.

Order will take what ever help it will get. It wont say 'you are a filthy pirate, I dont want your help in saving humanity'. It doesnt care about upholding any law... unlawfuls are humans to them just like anybody... a part of human nature.

For an alliance especially with the corsairs, there are several good reasons:

-Corsaires fight the outcasts. The outcasts are in league with the noamds.
-The artifact smuggle is controled by the corsaires. Alien artifacts are vital in understanding the Daam K'vosh (or how you spell it) and in beating the nomads. Like in SP.
-Probably nomads are against artifact smuggle in general and thus also in confrontation to the Corsaires, they certainly got screwed of by an artifact in the SP.

Your arguments are oversimplified. Ok, the Order are not saints, that's a given. But even they understand the peril of depending too much on the old "the ends justify the means" approach. There's the danger that you'll eventually become the monster that you're fighting. Now to address your points.

First of all, I would state that the Order really doesn't need help specifically from the Corsairs. You would think the Corsairs have enough buns in the oven what with fighting the OC, Hessians and BH. The Order can effectively defend itself from the BH and still fight the Nomads, if the weekly BH-Order event is any indication.

Secondly, the Corsairs do not have the know-how or the desire to closely inspect the Nomad artifacts that they are distributing into House Space. Sure, most of them are inert chunks of crystal, but it only takes one active one to start some serious chaos. Corsairs and those friendly to them buy them or mine them and ship those things off to the next dealer (Luxury Liner Hawaii). Now, if they decided to transport them to Minor for inspection and analysis before distribution, I could understand the Order's current policy with the Corsairs. That's not going to happen though.