Quote:Call me crazy but is much more logical for Mollys if they go dead hostile with Bretonia to help the Kusari or Gallia in 4.86 against the Bretonians if they promise them to help achieving independence.
I'd have to disagree with that. The mollys in the discovery RP set down by Igiss have aided Bretonia against Kusari, and by now Kusari probably think that they're more "honourless dogs" to be crushed. Gallia, similarly, wants to wipe out the Bretonians. I doubt it matters to them that the mollys aren't exactly friendly to Bretonia, they still descended from the original colonists on board the sleeper ship Bretonia, and so should be wiped out like the rest. This, to me, indicates that the mollys would have their best interests served by causing the war to drag out, while Bretonia is too busy fighting Kusari and Gallia to really do much to protect the miners, since if Gallia or Kusari wins, there's a fresh force in the area with no major enemies (and possibly also a huge, fresh military in the case of Gallia, depending on Corsair-Gallic relations), who would be more than capable of obliterating the mollys, and similarly if Bretonia wins, the mollys lose out against a gradually rebuilding fleet full of veteran pilots. All in all, by dragging out the war, and offering enough assistance to Bretonia for them to survive, they would keep the near-anarchy in Dublin going.
Of course, the clan groupings of the mollys could easily have different motivations: The mining corporations, while quick to chase off BMM from their territories, could end up almost friendly with Bretonia due to their source of funding not involving piracy, wheras groups like the Separatists would actively go against Bretonia except when common enemies like Kusari or corsairs got involved, although they would probably leave the Bretonians to die if they thought the remaining kusarians would be too weak to pose much of a threat to the mollys themselves. Treating the mollys like a single grouping would be similar to treating every irishman as a member of the IRA, to take a real world example.
I believe that if a "guideline rule" like this ever made it into an RP section of the forum, each molly group should have an individual say on it rather than an overall molly council saying "this is how all mollys will act". It gives a certain amount of uncertainty about whether that molly you see was really just escorting a molly supply convoy or "rerouting" one meant for Bretonia, and leads to more interesting interactions than just "he's a molly in our area. Shoot him", or "he's a Bretonian in the neutral zone. No shooting but maybe a few insults".
