How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

[Dab]

I would like to point out, for all the people who want to misrepresent the issue, that the Corsairs are not RP they no longer have food problems, they are RPing getting food from a different source. Still not enough food on Crete, still have to ship it in, the difference is we have now changed suppliers with which comes a whole new set of vulnerabilities.

What I hear people saying here is that the Corsairs must be dependent on the Zoners, and that I dont agree with, that is what brought us to the current situation, with Zoners expecting a free pass, and the Corsairs not willing to give it anymore, because our RP have developed in a different direction. Had the Zoners wanted to make sure the Corsairs were still dependent on them, they should have shown some interest in moving food to the Corsairs in the last 2 years, shown some attempt at winning back the Corsairs favor, but they haven't. Basically what I hear in this thread is that the Zoners can do anything they want to the Corsairs because the Corsairs have to be dependent on food.... specifically from the Zoners, cant come from anywhere else or it breaks the game. Bull. No one is trying to remove the fatal flaw from the Corsairs, we have just been rping for a long time a different way to deal with that flaw.

What people are trying to say is that you can't just run a few player transports from Samura and Hogosha and IND and say that completely replaces the food the Zoners were supplying to the Corsairs. Kusari has to feed its own citizens, and is in a large-scale war with Bretonia, where they have to send food and other goods to the front lines. Samura is heavily involved with that. They cannot route large quantities of Samura transports to Crete, as many are tied up in the war effort and continuing trade with the other houses. Samura has only so many ships.

Furthermore, such a large scale amount of goods being taken there would be noticed by the population who, regardless of it being food to a starving people, will not take kindly to it. Starving or not, they are Corsairs and considered thieves, pirates, and murderers by the vast majority of the population. Add on the Blood Dragons, GC, OC, and Hessians who would all attempt to stop Samura's goods to Corsairs with gusto, and you've got a major problem in supply lines. The Kusari supply lines are already barely working in the Taus due to the Bretonians, Blood Dragons, Outcasts, and Golden Chrysanthemums. This is part of the storyline and lore, and cannot be ignored. This is a weakness to Samura that people have ignored because it doesn't fit into their roleplay plan.

The Hogosha are a black market mafia.. They aren't a huge international trading company. They don't have the transport numbers or the quantity of food to sate the Corsair's needs. Not even close. A Mafia can't supply the food for a nation. Samura and Hogosha together would only be able to feed a portion of the population of Crete, not anywhere near the entire planet. So to say the Corsairs' need of Zoner foodstuffs no longer exists is to ignore the lore already established. You've tried to counter the weakness of one faction by ignoring the weaknesses to the other factions involved, which is the same as ignoring the weakness to begin with.

I'm hardly saying the Zoners can do whatever they want to the Corsairs. But the Corsairs can't do whatever they want to the Zoners either. Neither side can afford to go to war with the other. The Zoners are choosing their current path because the Corsairs are forcing them into it. There is no room being given for peace. The Corsair players have already decided 'we get Theta or we just continue this war'.

On top of the food problems, the Corsairs on Gran Canaria can be easily taken hostage by the Zoners, who own the planet. Sure, there are a large quantity of Corsair military ships there as well, but to attack the Zoners means forfeiting the Hostages. It also means the Zoners welcoming the SCRA, Hessians, and Mollies, who together, can push the Corsairs out of Omega-49 completely. The Hessians already hold half of Omega-47, and have close ties with the Mollies and SCRA. If the Zoners relinquish all limitations on shooting Corsairs on the planet and near the planet, the Hessians, SCRA, and Mollies will not pass up the opportunity. Don't forget there is also a Bretonian settlement there.

You're also poisening the Omega-3 Zoners against you, who could turn to the Bretonian Government and allow them to shoot you within FP1's NFZ in retaliation. This'll keep you confined to Cadiz in Omega-5. The Zoners could also allow the Hessians to use FP9 or FP5 as a staging base against Corsair supply lines, a staging base they didn't have before. Freeport 5 is located right on the Corsair path from Gamma to Omega-5. If the Hessians set up shop at FP5, your reinforcements to Omega-5 are cut off. Don't be surprised to see Bretonians and Mollys also supporting the Hessians, at least financially, if they do so. Cutting you off from Omega-5 helps all of them.

Not to mention the Outcast side of the issue. You're now fighting Omi-74 and FP9.. Who sit between you and Eta. With you preoccupied with FP9, this allows the OC to push you right out of Eta and start shooting you in Theta. And if you're shooting FP9, the Zoners wouldn't feel bad about allowing OC to stage there to shoot you. They'd be an added layer of defense for the station against a group already shooting it.

None of these problems has been addressed in-roleplay. They have been ignored.

---