Corsair Order alliance

[Canaris]

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 thats where I totally disagree with a lot of people, also with some people in the Order.
Order doesnt give a rats ass about being 'good' or 'bad'. Those are terms defined by human morals. Humanity is under real threat of being destroyed, totally. And ?t has already been destroyed by the nomads in its origin systems. I think the game hints that the coalition/alliance war was also caused by nomads, for the same reason they caused the rhineland war. Once one side won, they appeared and destroyed humanity, because as a single united force they would sooner or later be a threat to them.
The order thinks its losing the war against the nomads, or at least it should think so because there are very strong indications for it. There can be no surrender, so weakening yourself by following human morals or laws, which will be gone anyway if you lose the war, doesnt make sense.

The other things... same enemies, order at war with liberty... have already been said by other people.

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.

In a server ballance, you are correct. There are far too many Order ships and players. They dont need corsaire help. Corsaires, however, need the alliance. In a rp sense, both need the alliance.

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.

True. But the Order needs the artifacts, regardless of how much Corsaires care for their 'scientific' value.