Admin Notice : Faction Warned

[Blodo]

Drake, this was some false intel that was started some time ago. So Zoners pass through Kusari en route to Ames research via the Tau systems. I do it often but I don't stop in Kusari for trade yet you and Blunt have decided that I'm trading there. It's a route, NOT a trade stop. We run deuterium to Ames research so that's one falsehood that Blunt started awhile back.

Yes, however you miss the fact how Privateers operate in Kusari. The point is to halt as much traffic as possible, make them take some other route. They don't care if you stop on a Kusari or not, trading through Kusari means you're a target, if you can figure it out and go through Liberty instead then the QCP reached their goal.

Another was that the Corsairs are leading raids out of O49. Again, not true. Most of the Corsair raids come from Cambridge where the JH to Omega 5 is. It's shorter, there's more there and they don't have to contend with Mollies on their way through Dublin.

This is also a reply to Dieter's point no. 2. Tons of Corsair NPCs at the JH inboth O-49 and Dublin. I know, this is infocards knowledge, however infocards are as much part of the RP as player RP. The precedent was set for this when the Order was denied rights to police their indies attacking Liberty Navy.

But aside from talking rules here, it's not just about Corsairs basing themselves off of Gran Canaria. It's also as Grimly pointed out an attack on Zoners as the suppliers of the Corsairs. This is knowledge backed by tens of rumours, quite a few infocards and the actions of the players ingame, it is simply reality. It's also knowledge that the QCP as a rogue faction would not need to officially confirm to themselves in order to begin operations, as in the public eye they are totally autonomous and not tied to any lawful Bretonian faction.

4) This is not what the Privateer ID is for. You aren't guardians of Bretonia in all places against all foes. You are pirates licenced by the Crown to kill and steal from those factions with which Bretonia is at war. Bretonia is not at war with the Zoners. End of story.

However Bretonia is at war with the Corsairs. And as Grimly pointed out in his post a page back, the Corsairs rely on the Zoners by a long shot. This is a case of war by proxy, and I'd say it's perfectly plausible. In RP you just can't put a finger on what QCP is doing, because the motivation is clear: Zoners are helping the enemies of Bretonia. They might be helping its allies too, but that's irrelevant to the QCP, who are by all means a rogue faction.

Regardless of that, I am not sure how many times yet can it be explained how the QCP work or what they are. The stance on this situation is obviously divided, now what I would suggest is to simply let this play out in roleplay. After all, I wouldn't consider QCP disrupting server gameplay, where whenever they raid omega-49 99% of the time there is a much bigger zoner/corsair fleet waiting there for them. So the zoners are more than capable of defending themselves. Neither is there any camping involved by either party. So in all actuality I would personally let this play out now that it has begun. The members of at least one of the Zoner factions seem to agree as evidenced by Bluespawn's post. The question here is whether the admins believe that it is going to be a liability or not...