Junkers, Bounty Hunters, and Gallia

[Tenacity]

To correct some of AJBeast's points... the gallic junkers are as quasi-legal as the sirius junkers, though they have closer ties to the government. My junker group chose to focus on working for the navy/government rather than on smuggling and criminal ties.

Most of the pirate groups in gallia (brigands, corse, maquis, etc) are unfriendly or even openly hostile to junkers there, because of the rumored ties to the royalists - however, the junkers do occasionally work with all of these groups and even the council, when there's enough profit to be made and such work can be kept away from the eyes of the royalists.

The gallic junkers view their sirius 'brethren' as lessers, detached from their origins and such - but they still work with them. Gallic junkers have issues travelling deep into sirius, they dont have the connections or knowledge about that area that sirius junkers do - so when smuggling goods across the minefields, the sirius and gallic junkers generally make exchanges just outside of gallic space. Gallic junkers will go through the minefield with gallic cargo, sell it to sirius junkers in orkney or omicron 80, who will then take it into sirius and sell it there, bringing back cargo that gallia needs and making a similar exchange.

Likewise, sirius junkers do not have the royalist connections that gallic junkers do, and thus are not able to move as freely within gallia, and are regarded with suspicion and hostility by the royal navy and police. They tend to have better relations with the council, however, who views them just like any other sirius faction - with more or less 'open arms'.

Then there are very special cases such as my own original sirius junker, thorn (captain of the liner tenacity) who has worked to establish relations on both sides. It wasnt easy, but I did get on the good side of quite a few royalists in gallia, while working with the ferrailleurs (my junker faction), and the idea was to make that the flagship of the faction before everything was shut down due to inactivity. Thus, I occasionally go into gallia with my sirius junker ship, and usually have no problems with the royalists there, though the unlawful side pretty much hates me =P

And this...

Also, will there be new entrances to Gallia soon? It's too much of a hassle to navigate the minefields.

No, the entirety of gallia is surrounded by such minefields. The whole -purpose- of the junkers in relation to gallia is the fact that we can fly through the unopened minefields whereas others cant, which is how the junkers in gallia have been obtaining information about sirius for the past few centuries. Learn to enjoy minefields, if you want to operate as a junker near them.

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