Unnoficial Corsair squad

[Exsiled_one]

Right, down to business.

After talking to various Corsairs in recent week, I have found out that there are people out there who think like me. I am not saying that my way of thinking and my ideas are the best ideas out there for Corsairs or in general, but isn't that how factions are born? Few people gather up, sharing the same idea.

To start off, but without getting into a wall of text, i'ld start with introduction.

>>Introduction.

As I mentioned already, after few talks it does not seem that I am the only Corsair around interested in cargo piracy and it also seems I'm not the only Corsair out there who doesn't need an alternative character in other faction to trade so my Corsair can live.
In my eyes, that means there are few awesome Corsairs out there who are self sustainable.

Lately Ivan has been losing patience with certain things, and my roleplay has been improving. I have figured out how to connect with Zoners and other factions and simply make them useful. By offering them actual credits to haul their goods for us I have established good relations with some of the zoners out there.
I'ld say it is a double win.

But why not make it even more interesting and include some people? I'm sure there are people out there who would agree with following:

>>What would we all do?

Well, this squad, that still lacks a name would be engaged in next things:
Piracy of goods needed for Corsair empire.
Export of Corsair produced goods
Sabotage of enemy's operations, trading or mining.
Counter intelligence and espionage
Providing supplies of all Corsair bases.
This is something Corsairs already do, I know. But the way I want it done certainly involves more order, other factions and gives a chance for some quality roleplay and cooperation.
How would we do it then? Well, here's how it would be done.

>>Requirements and deeper info:

Ships in the squad (that still lacks a name) would be limited to pirate transports, pirate trains and gunboats.
- Titans, Gladiators and other fighting machines out there simply do not posses cargo hold big enough to bring anything useful to the table. Those ships are to be allied with and guided to achieve what you need. That does not make them any less of Corsairs, but it just doesn't make them fit for the job.

All persons participating would have a weekly quota of exported items (Artifacts and Black market munitions) and weekly quota of imported things needed by empire.
- It's nothing hard ofcourse, I believe a quota of 6000 artifacts exported is really not hard to achieve. It is two runs to Trafalgar, and it is profitable.

All persons participating would have a weekly quota of imported items they have to bring in.
- This part is easy as well. You've seen how I do it. Basically, it is hiring zoners and offering them bonuses for bringing the goods we need to certain bases. There are more than few commodities we really need, and receiving them weekly gives a good cooperation chance with some factions as Junkers, Zoners or perhaps some smuggling faction that is out there.
We aren't talking big numbers here. Imagine giving 2 million for every 4k of superconductors brought to Crete. And the quota is.. lets say 20k. I can sure afford this, it's 10million to cash out for some decent roleplay by whoever delivers it.
Now imagine there's more of those eager to pay. It doesn't have to be 2mil. It can be 1mil as well. 1 million for every 4k of counterfit software brought to Fes.

Things like these would be done once a week. We would probably set the quota based on number of people we have in this "squad" (should we do numbers? like 1st, 5th? 32nd?)
If I can afford 20k of food rations to crete, and pay bonus of 10mil in total, could two members afford 40k of food to Crete? Or 40k plutonium? It could be mixed.

All commodities used in war, shipped to our enemies would be fully intercepted.
- I know, it could be tad unfair, but I really do not understand. When molly catches me with full cargo, he can tell me to drop it all. Because I'm a Corsair and he's a Molly.
But to do that to a BowEx trader seems unfair. Why? Isn't Bretonia a bigger threat than Molly Republic. I dont think they're that much more fed than we are, they're not the ones with Cambridge.

So basically engine components, military vehicles, raw materials as gold and others carried by either rheinland transports, bretonia transports or independent transports should be stopped fully and claimed as much as you can.
Zoners, Junkers and others can fit in the category mentioned above. Example:
- If I ordered 20k quota of Plutonium to be delivered to Fes this week, I will probably stop every plutonium shipment heading towards omega 49, and either plunder it or direct it to Fes, until some Zoner or Junker or whoever actually replies in my thread and shows the ship's manifests that the quota for Fes is full.
I don't really have a reason to stop other Pltuonium shipments, especially those transported by some factions that are renown, like Congress, Consortium, TAZ or OSI.


Basically this is just an idea and a rundown of what I do already. I am just posting this here to see if there's anyone actually interested in doing it with me.
personally, we don't even have to share the planet, let alone time zone. This can all be worked out via forums. It is just interesting to give bit back to the nation that allows you to have as much fun as you do.
And let's face it, there's alot of people out there that dislike Corsairs for their mindless piracy. This could be their chance to try something different.

As far as I'm concerned the ships you create don't even have to be named with some special tag. A simple * will suffice if it's allowed to be used in the names. We'll come up with something once I see people are interested.

Keep in mind that inactivity for this will be dealt as well. There were cases before when something unofficial was formed that everyone go happy crazy on the bandwagon and it all dies three weeks later. It's pretty simple to monitor who is active who isn't, and ask or force inactive people to remove the "squad" mark from their ship name.

That's all guys. Thanks for reading.
Post either suggestions or comments here. I'll see will this go live within week.

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