To the AU

[Jihadjoe]

You were logged in your Kruger just a little over an hour

Four hours, in which I made a lot of money in your territory, traveling through frankfurt along with huge numbers of other traders.

and because you werent pirated in that relatively short period, you are now blaming an official factions motives to use Texas for piracy as an alternative, which they could fairly do?

Alternative? I haven't seen you pirate anywhere else!

Were we obliged to coincide with your Kruger such that only then would you be satisfied about the adequecy of the activites of Rheinland pirates? Judging by this, one could well say that he was logged on in some system, and because he sat at one point he couldnt interact with anyone, so he now believes that the entire universe is dead.

No, you are not obliged to work by my clock, that would be totally unfair of me to expect that. I am using an example however Kress. You may or may not have noticed that my IND has also been trundling around Rheinland rather a lot of late. When I say rather a lot, I mean that I'm on an epic trade grind at the moment.

At no point have I been pirated by the AU or any other group in Rheinland. I have not seen a Rheinland pirate's face at all, aside from in texas. This implies to me that something is rather awry.

Not only does not this marginal inquiry of yours validate that our faction havent been reasonably active in Rheinland in chase of interdicting both corporate and incorporate trade for almost months since we are established, but it only narrates of a lonely, motionless and most probably lazy one hour of yours, independent from the real facts.

See above.

As a matter of fact, there arent loads of trade in Rheinland mainly because of the Liberty-Rheinland war and the blockade that is still in effect. People mostly prefer the Kusari-Bretonia trade to the Liberty-Rheinland trade due to the passage between Kusari and Bretonia being expandable and easier, having alternative routes between the two houses, as opposed to how Liberty and Rheinland are connected to each other with only two systems, each linked with Hamburg, where lots of naval action and chaos is focused rather than being scattered in a wider zone.

There is a large amount of trade running between bretonia and the heart of rheinland. I know because I have been a part of it and have been watching it on my indy RM.

Because of this and the sigma and omega systems being more restricted and not viable for our purposes, we are one of the factions least likely to find proper targets for piracy. This is quite a valid ground and reason for Unioners to operate in Texas and even in other areas of Liberty in order to expand their chances for credits robbery and cargo extortion during times its tough to operate in Rheinland. I personally wouldnt expect them to be so fairplayers either, as they are desperately looking for resources and ways to stay unharmed during the relentless skirmishes ensued so close to them.

The perceived lack of trade does not give you an excuse to just up and leave your roots and bugger off to another house. I will quote myself...

You don't see Blood Dragons pirating Liberty because that's where all the gaijin traders come from.

Mining potential? We aint miners mate, we are bloody pirates. We dont mine, we plunder, we maraud, we steal, we raid... Mining falls in Krugers department, you should have a look at it with your Kruger.

I was refering to you stealing from miners. Miners are viable piracy targets. I was mining and travelling with new fewer than four other miners for several hours last night.

AU, as an official faction, try to push forward its own goals in Rheinland as best as it could. However, todays modern conjecture necessitates our factions regardless of the affliation advancing into Liberty as well in order to hit its trade and hurt its economy as much needed as in Rheinland. Only then could we ensure that we afflict both participants of the war as we are supposed to do.
To top it on, Liberty could have 928364897256342 to the power of 928364897256342 unlawful groups for all I care. Not you and not even your grandfather could dictate where my factions interests would be. Besides, its perfectly legitimate for Unioners to be in Texas for mainly two good reasons.

1) Hitting trade in Liberty, while operating in Rheinland is either more dangerous or less time efficient, productive and profitable.
2) Assembling assault groups in order to raid both corporate and naval entities of Liberty, more preferably as hit and run attacks.

In practical terms it may be more dangerous to operate in Rheinland. The Rhienland military is bored mainly, because it has little combat duty within the house itself, unless the Liberty Navy comes calling. However, if you were to do a little reading, you will discover that Rheinland has a much smaller defence budget than Liberty, who have the spending (in roleplay) to wage war on two other houses at the same time.

With regards to respecting the various players who play in Liberty, would it not be worth considering the 928364897256342 groups might be a little too much to deal with without adding yours on the top.

If you had played a liberty liawful character, you would be more than aware that you spend your entire time rushing from one crazy emergency to the next, and should you lose a fight, it means that the various systems are just a mass of gunboats yelling the word "corrupt" at any opportunity they can find for the next four hours until you can come back and restore some semblance of order and tranquility to the place.

Your wish to inflict yourself upon a place which according to your groups' description you should have little interest in, I find a little annoying.

Where Xenos prefer to concentrate is none of my factions concern, except Hudson. We are truly concerned with their existence there and have been battling in turf wars to remove them from Hudson for once and all.

The point being made here, is that with the xenos presence in Texas, you would find it much harder (with more stretched supply) to operate here than in the borderworlds. I find it a little odd that you feel perfectly comfortable to watlz right up to the texas gate and pirate there. It is something of a concern.

"Unioners are far away from being politically motivated. You should examine the Bundschuh for that matter. And they arent going to change anything related with their Rheinland affairs by participating in malevolent acts in Texas but their affairs related with Liberty as explained above."

The Unioners are, to my understanding, largely recruited from disgruntled shipyard workers (or were at least). They may well be sellouts by now, but their group started as an armed workers union. Their piracy at least in part exploits this revolutionary feel by appealing to people with rhetoric (then guns). Or at least that was my memory, having been a member of your faction and leaving due to a lack of time. That remaining revolutionary spirit does not include Texas.

"Xenos do naturally hate Unioners. Does it stop Unioners to operate in the same system with them such as Hudson? They could well fight in Texas similarly."

Not really, due to the larger presence of the local law enforcement. The Xenos would be fighting alongside the local law in order to shove you back out. Your group, being tiny, wouldn't be able to cope with that.


"official faction"

How many active members do you have?


EDIT: Broke the code somewhere along the line... lots of quotes and the last three broke. Italics in quotation marks are... well... quotes.

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