To the Disco community from one of your own.

[Veronee]

Well hack, and joe really. Having thought about this a lot I might be able to raise some points here for you to chew on.

Now I play a merc.
I also roleplay that merc.
I know what I am.
I'm a heartless murdering !*4(*35 who kills anything for money. For that matter pirates are higher on the social hierachy.

Now, being a merc and killing targets for the libby goverment. I don't take orders from indies. I'm a civilian, if a official faction person requests something I will do it.

So you may be wondering how this is relevant. Well myself and two other mercs were hanging around houston hoping to catch a smuggler and make a quick buck. There were 3 of us.
Some indy navy player arrives and starts throwing insults. Not really good captain conduct (gunboat) but yeah alright.
He keeps attempting to provoke us to attack him and also keeps trying to give us orders we ignore. He claims his authority is his big ship.
I got a lil irritated. Our 3 characters got -very- irritated.
Some trader came along, wanted an escort. We offered. He claimed it was his job to do that (now taking work from a merc, not the best of ideas). Then we just let him go.
As 3 fighters we could easily have killed him yet he hides behind the navy tag to "pick on the little people"
So yeah? What do I do? I can't attack him (reasons are below). I don't want to report him to you (navy captian showing poor conduct to your employees) cause that's holding you responsible.


Now while I won't hold you responsible for his conduct I'd like to point out that had we attacked him he could have held us responsible to you.
Firing on a navy officer is a serious offence I would imagine, had we done it and he reported it then we would lose the client.

To give another example:
The zoners get fed up with NFZ violations and bring some guns to the freeport on your rhieneland border.
A smuggler shows up, starts to RP with them.
Some LSF shows up and tries to arrest the smuggler, he then fires at the smuggler.
The zoners blow up the LSF indy for violating freeport law.
He reports this and you then threaten the zoners for attacking their agents.


In other words, and to shorten this:
TLDR version:
You may not be responsible for their conduct but you can hold us (outsiders) responsible for our actions against them.

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