Liberty rogues, Artifacts, Cardi and Outcasts and Corsairs.

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The Junkers can trade both sides of the fence because they have bases where almost everyone is welcome. By fence, I mean lawful and unlawful. The Rogues will have some difficulty on that point. Most pilots who start out in New York/Penn took their first mission against...guess who?
The deck is kinda stacked against the Rogues on that score. You start hostile to them don't you?
Rogues are never going to be allowed to dock on Manhatten. Junkers can.

As it stands, Rogues are unlikely to be allowed into Gamma on any level.
As Ivan says, the OTC ship artifacts all over.
If Rogues come across an OTC tagged ship hauling artifacts, what would they do?
Same goes for Rogues in Gamma.
Corsairs can dock in Liberty at Junker bases for example, where can Rogues dock in Gamma?
The Rogues would have to look at a suitable alternative (IFF/ID) for trading unless ID's and RP gets changed.
If they can find another option (and I'm sure they can), I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to run artifacts. I think it's a good idea.

With regard to the Outcast/Corsair alliance, the stuff with the artifacts is to be honest "Strictly business, capeche"?
The Rogue ship line is theirs (and Molly), not Outcast and they have their own weapons. As long as the Cardi keeps flowing and Rogue bases are available to them, the Outcasts shouldn't worry.

One thing in their favor with Corsairs however is that Corsairs have Sirius wide political and military goals.
The Rogues don't. They are, barring their existing alliances, a good old fashioned money making machine of orgainised crime.
If anything, I think the Rogues and Hackers should ally and leave the Outcast alliance behind but thats for another thread.

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