(His name is Lord Hakerra, and I don't think he was the actual leader of the BD, just a high ranking member-not sure though. I don't think the KNF control Tekagi's arch because my KNF character is red to the base.)
The Blood Dragons and the Order might have an understanding between each other because they assisted each other in killing a mutual enemy: Governor Tekagi. But I believe that the relationship really boiled down to that between Orilion and Hakerra, but not beyond it. The Blood Dragons wanted Tekagi dead because either by blood or priviledge, he was a member of the current Shogun dynasty in power in Kusari. The Blood Dragons would see him as a primary target in their efforts to overthrow the Kusari regime and replace it with the original Shogun blood line. The Order wanted Tekagi dead because they new he had been possesed by a nomad parasite. The Order could care less about who is in power in Kusari. So the two factions may have worked together in killing Tekagi, but they did it for different reasons. Hakerra seemed to be the 'go between' with the two factions. He was the only person to see the mutual interests of the two factions and get them to work together. Hear George Takei's voice playing Hakerra: "What? You want me to tell you we have finally come upon an enemy more deadly than our own hubris?" He was a hero of the Nomad war because he saw past the relatively petty interests of his own faction to the truth of the situation. Rather than continue in the Blood Dragon pursuit of the throne, Hakerra orchestrated the cooperation between the Order and the BD to bring down a possessed Kusari governor. This does not equate to alliance between BD and Order in my opinion. It is unlikely very many of either organization where privy to the cooperation and probably remains a secret to only but the highest ranked people.
I like the idea of making Discovery more story-centric. As the mod stands now, there is no overriding story other than 30 or so interesting and loosely related stories that you hear about in bars. We have enhancements like new alliances and wars, new ships and equipment. But we still mill about in a day to day hum drum of Sirius life with no over arching story to drive action (yes, house wars are hum drum compared with an alien invasion.) Those of us that play on the 24/7 RP server a lot sense this and end up devising our own drama to fill the void. Some of us get really far-out in terms of plausibility and relatedness to vanilla freelancer *cough(harley)cough*, others stay very close to the original story. And though some effort has been made to continue the original story, all we really have is life after the nomads. Trent destroyed what ever it was the nomads were using to invade Sirius. We still have nomads in the unknowns but they seem content to stay there. Frankly, now that we've seen what the nomads are, and know how to fight them, they just aren't the kind of evil that is needed to drive a good story. Something needs to change about them, otherwise we are just role playing a glorified clean up.
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