Corsair Battleship conceptual ideas

[Tenacity]

I belive this adressed to me and I'm not very pleased by what I hear... nono.gif

It's addressed to all of the people in this thread who keep arguing over pointless semantics. I'll leave it to you to decide if you fit into that category.

However, as for the Order-Corsair alliance being such a bummer for you guys, who exactly are you gonna try and climb into bed with?

Right now, Most of the order high command are trying to re-establish our vanilla alliances: The Blood Dragons, The Bundschuh, etc. We would like allies who are less pirate- or terrorist-oriented, and more politically motivated. The corsairs pirate, but they dont have any political motivation behind it. Blood Dragons and Bundschuh are trying to create revolution in their houses, they have political motivations, and if we get on their good sides and they happen to be successful with these revolutions, it gives the Order a foothold in the houses and ensures that we'll have the military backup we need when the next war with the nomads springs up.

The only reason we're connected with the corsairs was out of a temporary need for resources and engineers, and to monitor artifact trade. There's no reason at all we should be allied with the hogosha, other than artifact trade (most artifacts are 'dead' now, no point in it anyways). We gave up solid allegiances from vanilla freelancer just because a few players decided they wanted to pitch the faction into the hispania war. That war has done -nothing- good for us, it encourages our blind idjit indies to take their carriers into alpha and shoot outcasts, it causes corsairs to think they can use our equipment and ships against the outcasts, and we gain nothing out of this petty dispute.

The Corsairs were good allies while it lasted, but we're trying to move on into more meaningful allegiances. We, by no means, want the Corsairs hostile to us, but we want allies which actually give us an advantage in the nomad war - even if it's a future advantage - over allies whose primary concern is stealing from civilians and seeing how much they can blow up in an hour of gametime.

Seems we're losing the Gaians too, while the Hessians, Mollys, SCRA and Mandalorians join together to create one super-group of anti-Corsairs.

The outcasts have lost a few allies since 4.84. They're no longer allied with the hessians or blood dragons. Corsairs arent the only ones with their allies finding new friends elsewhere.

If it were up to me, I'd have all of the current corsair/outcast allies remove themselves from the hispania war, focusing on their own goals, and give the corsairs/outcasts no allies of their own. Both groups are on the verge of being house-sized organizations now, and a lot of others are finding out that the hispania war is only causing them grief.

Finally, how exactly do the Order wish to go about abandoning relations with the organisation largely responsible for their survival when they arrived in the Omicrons, and who responded to countless threats upon their home-world from Hunters and Nomads alike?
If this collapse in relations is to be done, it should be done properly. "We want different friends" may sound fine OORP, but in-RP, it's a fairly poor excuse considering how much both organisations owe each other.

There are events happening in 4.86 (which for obvious reasons I cannot explain here) which would, in-RP, push the order and corsairs further apart. Other than the reasons I gave above for removing ourselves from the hispania war, these events give a further in-RP reason for the alliance to be broken.

Now, it doesnt mean that we're going to be hostile to the corsairs and start up a war with them - far from it. We expect that most order and corsair personnel would maintain a neutral stance towards one another due to past events even if the official alliance is removed. We have no reason to participate in either side of the hispania war, it draws resources away from our organization that are better used combatting the wilde, nomads, or phantoms. The simple fact of the matter is that the order simply does not care about petty faction disputes, our one and only goal is to fight alien threats, and we see interfaction wars - even the enormity of the corsair vs outcast hispania war - as petty struggles that are beneath us, and that should be beneath all of humanity.

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