Rules Update needed

[Yngen]

We have to help the KNF, because:

1. We are helping them in the war against Bretonia
2. Would you rather fire at somone who is neutral to you or who you are at war with?]
3. What a great way to use lawful forces to try to weaken enemies of the Corsairs.
4. The TBH is neutral (freindly side of that i think) to the KNF (and see point 2)

Ill go check the info cards now...but i do realise the things i see all the time, like corsair legionaires in Honshu shooting up samura and the like...weird.

EDIT: In hind sight, it was a questionable desiscion to take my Corsair fighter...would have been better to take my IND fighter which was in the same area at the time...oh well, i made a mistake this time...it happens.

Its a pickle no doubt. This mod gets very complicated when one tries to reconcile the rumors and news stories with the info cards and NPC behaviors. I have found it useful to classify rumors as overt or covert. The relationship between the Kusari government and the Corsairs or the one between the Queen and the Outcasts I would classify as covert only. They are rumors you hear of in the bars. If there were Corsairs assisting the KNF you would here it in the news (on both sides of the war, not just one side-Bretonia and Kusari are purposefully contradicting each other's news stories over the war so only information that is repeated by both as the same is actually true.) This means a covert relationship is not reflected in any obvious way (such as assisting in battle.) As there are Corsair NPCs in Honshu hitting Kusari traders I would surmise that only the most senior leaders of the Corsairs are even aware of any such relationship and the dealings between those two parties is of the cloak and dagger sort. Sharing information or perhaps funding would be the limit as I see it to the relationship between Corsairs and KNF. It would be interesting to see however if the Corsairs are hitting only one of the two house corporations, like the Hogosha do. There is a subtle schism happening in the Kusari government and its centered around the difference between Samura and Kishiro. Samura enjoys special benefits from the Hogosha and is never pirated by them. The Hogosha are the Corsair's primary distributors of alien artifacts and so the two factions may be working together to topple Kishiro, which is quickly cornering all of the major Kusari markets. Kishiro is actively distancing itself from the Shogunate as well and coseying up to the GMG, supplying gas miners and getting cheap H-fuel in return.

Very complicated indeed, and thusly not suited to black and white combat on the server. There is too much room for confusion considering the information is vague, obscure and difficult to aquire. Your enemies will get confused and end up flaming you and you'll have another post such as this one.

Let the complicated stuff play out on the forums, but keep combat simple. If Igiss decides to write the Corsairs into the war overtly somehow (with Corsair NPCs killing Blood Dragons etc.) it will make this situation easier to play out on the server but as it is, it's merely fodder for our colorful troop of fiction writers and not official.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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