I just finished playing the single player campaign (a refresher, having not done it in about 4 years.)
I'm assuming everyone has completed the single player campaign before, but in case some haven't, this is a spoiler alert then.
There are 2 clues that Orilion gives us at the end of the campaign about the future of the Order:
1)He mentions having cleaned out all the possesed Liberty and Reinland government/military officials. After trent uses the tampered-with artifact to destroy the powered ruin they found in the Dyson sphere we know that the Nomad's then-current avenue for invading Sirius was destroyed. The image is of Nomad ships being sucked into some sort of rift created by the destruction of the ruin, but no true explaination of what is happening is given. This is possibly what is being researched at the lab orbiting the similar nomad ruin in NewCastle. Perhaps those scientists will reveal what the true origins of the Nomads are, give us more information about the Dom Kovash, and give evidence of what further threats to the humans in Sirius they pose. At the very least, this gives the Order reason to continue on and be active in Sirius. The Order would see Trent's accomplishment as merely a won battle in a greater war to save Sirius.
1)He asks Trent to be the Order's "eyes in Liberty," implying the Order suspects there are Nomad remnants they failed to detect. This would be the primary purpose for any player in Disco wanting to be a true Order pilot. Order affiliated players in Disco should be rooting out remnants of Nomad-infested elements in Sirius. Currently, the only faction doing this sort of role play on the disco server is the SF. The SF does an admirable job with this, especially Ant and Firebird, however I believe it would be more appropriate if an Order-affiliated faction would take more of a lead role in this effort than a Bretonia Armed Forces faction would.
There are any number of things the Order should be doing in the Disco mod.
Lets look at a few of these:
1)What happened to Kusari? All of a sudden we have the Kusari waging war on Bretonia. This could possibly mean there are nomad remnants infesting the Shogunate even now-driving them to create war in another attempt to weaken the houses for a nomad slaughter in the future. We never learn if Tekagi was successful in infesting any of the Kusari Shogun before he was blown to smitherenes. We DO know that Lord Hakerra returned to the Blood Dragons, apparently on an Order assignment, at the end of the SP campaign-what was he assigned to do?
2)The Bretonians seemed to be the only house government that weathered the whole ordeal without getting infiltrated. They were fighting off the Reinland fleet close to the end, so they seemed to have their heads about them, but that doesn't mean there aren't low level officials that weren't infested somehow.
And dont even get me started on Liberty and Reinland. They were so infested it would be impossible to get all the blue worms out. The Order should be hitting these two governments continuously, working with the Bundshuh and Rogues/xenos...
This server needs better Order representation. The Order is the primary story-driving faction for Freelancer and they are currently represented by a StarWars faction. No offence meant to Dboy, but this is a truely large hole in the role play tapestry of Discovery 24/7.
And I will mention it again...there needs to be well regulated distribution of nomad-IDs to highly motivated and RP-experience players to play nomads-this gives Order factions a very real day to day threat to fight.