Order / Corsair alliance

[Sprolf]

Since noone mentioned it so far, Order never recruited outcasts, not even in vanilla, because already back then they considered the nomads as holy spirits and were far too cardamine-addicted.

A) Kress?

B) No, they were not considered holy spirits. They were considered spirits, but certainly not holy. To reinforce that idea, and the idea that their "worship" of Nomads it utterly ridiculous, the Outcasts are mostly Catholic. They wouldn't turn to worshipping "spirits" just because they were blue, shiny, and blew up their ships once in a while.

The entire idea of this comes from the graveyard, where the Nomads were sometimes spotted. The Outcasts had no idea what these dangerous, blue shiny things were, so they referred to them as "spirits." They had no idea what the Nomads were, and being superstitious, they called them "spirits."

They didn't worship them, they simply regarded them with the same superstition they would regard poltergeists or ghosts with. If we actually tried to think things through before declaring the Outcast's relation with the Nomads, I imagine we might end up with them being quite allied with the Order against these "unholy" beings.

But, instead, someone interpreted "spirits" as "We worship these beings even though we're Catholic" instead of "This is a vague term for something we don't fully understand." And, we get the Outcasts, as silly as they are today.

Outcasts were awesome in vanilla.
I never play them in Discovery.

(And, as a bit of a note, Corsairs were also better in Vanilla.)

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