Liberty Navy [LN] Feedback Thread

[Blighter]

Right, while I'm still awake, let me clear some things up.

First, the fight in Kansas, from my perspective, and the time before it.

On this day, I was teamed up with an independent Liberty Navy character going by the name of 'Kayvesk'.
As minutes went on, we've had the usual in-RP emergencies and Pirates to deal with.
Over the course of the day, leading up to the fight in Kansas later, I had three Recruits, in the game, to deal with.
That means, I had to help them get their ships kitted out, tell them where to go, what to do, what to buy, funding them, while dealing with mentioned emergencies above.
I was rather satisfied with that day, and I am extremely thankful to said Indie helping out with the Recruits and over the entire course of my time spent in the game on that day.
Now, to move on.
If my memory serves me right, as the last Recruit was just finished with getting his Executioner kitted out, one of the Recruits got an emergency call from a Miner or other Transport in Kansas about some 'Pirates'.

Thinking it would be a good way to, for one, give the Recruits something to do, and for two, give them a new RolePlay opportunity, I sent them to Kansas to investigate while, again, if my memory serves me right, Kayvesk and I were busy with the usual affairs.

Now at some point the Recruits reported that one of them got lost and the others were being ordered to leave by the ]NTF[, and that they were outnumbered two to one.
Doing what was appropriate in-RP, I told them to keep talking and to hold out until Kayvesk and I arrived.
It took a while until we were there, and then we were, in total, three fresh [LN] Recruits in their barely kitted-out Executioners, Kayvesk, I, an independent Gunboat and, I'm really not sure when he came in, another independent Liberty Navy character with his Screamer-mine kitted Liberator.
(Sorry that I forgot your name, I'm really, really bad with names.)

Regardless, at first I only saw Kayvesk, my three Recruits and myself staring down four ]NTF[ fighters and two Lane Hackers, one which I should mention actually gave us Kudos for the fight that came afterwards.

Seeing the odds as even, I ordered the Gunboat to stand down and watch, and that's what it exactly did.
I'm really not sure when the Liberator came in, but I do remember that a Freelancer in an Eagle jumped into the fight in the middle of it, going by the name of 'CombatBeaver' or something if I recall correctly.
So the fight went on, with 'my' side gaining the upper hand after a while.
In the middle somewhere a Rogue-IFF'd Tridente showed up, and that is when I first told the Gunboat to open fire, and only on that specific target.

It ended up with us left with a, atleast to me, but my connection frankly sucks, rather laggy ]NTF[ Eagle.
Thinking it wouldn't hurt to try, since said Eagle's pilot showed no intent of vacating the area, I kept people busy with shooting at him, mostly because I thought that, dodgy as the Eagle was and laggy as it appeared, it would be a good opportunity for the three new Recruits to have some target practice, which, in a damn hostile area as Liberty space is, would come in handy.

I remember that the Gunboat did open fire on the Eagle at some point, and I asked it to stand down, however it kept shooting until it cruised off a while later. Not overly much harm done, was only target practice, as said Gunboat was kitted out with Cerberus Turrets.
After a while, two [HF] ships, Shia and a, as I've later been told by the [HF]'s leader, new Recruit whose name I forgot jumped in.
I kept 'my side' on the Eagle and Shia, while CombatBeaver fought the [HF]'s new addition one on one, in a duel.

Afterwards at some point the [TAZ] member showed up and, well, I think he didn't take my RolePlay too well after he started to badmouth the Navy in a situation where the last thing you really want to hear or need to hear is trashtalk when you've Recruits around.
As my character, Sarah Willows, is rather easy to piss off in certain situations, I RP'd accordingly, saying something along the lines of 'CONGRATULATIONS ZONER! YOU'VE EARNED YOURSELF AN EXECUTION!' and gave him a warning shot, intent to make him run for the hills.
This the Zoner didn't do, instead he returned fire.
Fine by me.
After a while he was engaged with our Liberator until that one sent him running home, tail between his legs.
And after another while the fight ended, with two Recruits shot down, one having had to go, Kayvesk disappearing near the end of the fight, and whatever else.

Next point, the Zoner issue.
As much as I personally like the [TAZ], there's been, and I don't want to point fingers at anyone here, even though I'm sure what I'm about to say will look like it, repeated offenses, in-RP, against the Liberty Navy and Liberty law by the [TAZ].

Now I'm 'course not blaming the entire faction or anything, I ain't blaming anyone, I'm just saying there's been breaches of Zone-21, smuggling, offloading contraband in Liberty, insults directed at the Liberty law enforcement and some of its individuals, resupplying of Pirates, other unlawfuls and even Phantoms in the middle of combat.
Not to mention whatever else there was.

Now, the catch is, this isn't something that happened once or twice or one time each per offense.
It's something that has been happening ever since I, back a longer while, joined this here faction.
The [LN] has always, always been very 'nice' when it came to dealing with the fallout of such situations afterwards, and I wouldn't even say that we pushed those 'encounters' aside, I'd say we buried them in the backs of our respective heads, six feet under other [LN]-related stuff, since, well, the [TAZ] are a nice and RPing bunch, and it's nice to have them in Liberty.
I myself have had very enjoyable encounters with them while on the lawful and unlawful side of Liberty.
But, it simply stands, that the offenses I mentioned accumulated over time to a point where the only the slight mention of the Zoner encounter in Kansas made everybody instantly remember all the other things that happened and that we've let go, so to say.

As such the High Command has come to a decision regarding the [TAZ] and what to do with the [TAZ] for now.
It could've been much, much worse, and right now the situation isn't even solved, as that certain time period has still to pass. So yeah, that's my view.