Alliances

[Evil_Joker]

LSF's list of enemies include Corsairs, Red Hessians and Unioners. Since none of those groups exist in Liberty space it suggests to me that this intelligence organization, "operating in secrecy", gets involved in other parts of Sirius to defend their corporate partners. Thanks to jump holes it's possible to get from Liberty to Tau space without taking armed ships through Bretonia, so no worries about violating somebody else's air space. I don't see any justification for saying "LSF combat ships can't be in Tau-31!" as long as they have Liberty tagged traders to defend.

CP
(p.s. I have no stake in this discussion. Just adding my $0.02)

@CP: Agreed

Here's my two cents... Tau 31 has a very lucrative trade run (allbeit a glitch in many of your eyes). the fact is it is there for now and it is heavily pirated at times. No self respecting faction would send out it's freighters into hostile territories witout an escort. Our purpose is to protect the economy and free trade of Liberty, and while Tau-31 is not in our jurisdiction for policing it's reasonable to expect liberty ships to trade there and thus reasonable that we protect those ships. I'll agree that the best rp option is to hire a merc or have the controling house faction protect the freighters once over the border, but to be quite honest it can be difficult to nearly impossible to find that help at times; thus instead of leaving our traders vulnerable we protect them with our own fighters. Now, you might not like the Tau 31 run (if you can call it a run), but even if we were to do the Stokes/LA, or Corfu/Cam run, or any other run for that matter, we would not allow our traders to go in unprotected.

Many of you have brought up real life politics to compare... well do you think that if the US was trading with another nation and had to go through hostile territory they'd leave their ships unprotected without an escort simply because they had to go through another nations territory? I think not. LSF is an intelligence agency that operates secretly... compare that to the CIA or something similar... they operate in many different countries (friendly-hostile and everywhere in between). Now i'm not saying we can freely police anywhere we want, but if our assets are threatened then why would we not be there?

Now while we are there we aren't supposed to be policing, this I agree with; and if one of our ships is policing I will personally take care of it, but on the flip side... if one of our ships are there protecting one or more of our freighters it stands to reason that they would not stand idly by when a ship from one of our allied/ friendly factions comes under fire. That would not only be wrong, but would be cause for unrest between that faction and the LSF.

Finally, as Sn!p3r said, the days of string-cheese (yes his name was string-theory, but he was not the brightest so I call him that) are behind us. We LSF members are trying to put our best foot forward and overcome the grave that was dug by string cheese. We do not need everyone pointing the finger at us alone. There are many factions that have done something similar to this, and the fact that LSF was for the most part the only one being pointed out is unfair and unjust. Please if you have a problem with LSF contact Sn!p3r or myself via pm or ingame. If we are doing something wrong we will rectify the situation immediately. Bashing us on the forums (in several different posts) will not get the problem solved, instead it will only cause a lot of anger and hostilities. Thanks and have a great day.

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