Short story long: It's actually a change that's been long overdue. When I took over the NLH originally back in '08, I kept trying to integrate the same darker edge I & another was doin' as gaian indies before that, but It never really took properly because I didn't force it like I should've at the time.
Anyway, the biggest difference between the 'loch & the NLH is simply that we are going to up-play the origins of the faction as the violent fanatics we feel the gaians were intended as.
Another main difference is that we have completely severed ties with the Green Front, seeing them as impotent & a bureaucratic obstacle to our goals.
...& the thing about the 'Sairs: I've felt for years that alliance w/ 'em was wonky. For a Gaian pirate, Sairs aren't all that bad to have in your corner, but for a terrorist with single-minded goals, pirates just get in the way. With a flat neutral stance, we can drop all pretense of obligation to one another and deal with them on a case-by-case basis.
...& On neutrality in general: Neutrality does not guarantee safety for anyone. It just guarantees that we will not treat you as hostile from the get go. I don't want people to get the false impression that we will kill everything we see...I want instead to help foster a feeling trepidation when we appear on scope
