Gaians

[Jinx]

i think its more about out of character balance. keep the terrorist IDs to a minimum. in my opinion, pirates act on a rather small scale. they do not seek to overthrow a system/goverment structure. they even support the capitalism and free trade.
terrorists on the other hand are rather unhappy with how things go in sirius. they wish for a whole new rule. so i would say that terrorists have a vision beyond making money, while pirates are rather interested in making easy money cause they are either forced to do it that way or cause they like it that way. however - a pirate would most likely not want to die for it, while a terrorist might do just this.

now back to the topic - many of the so called pirates in sirius appear to be rather terrorists who USE piracy as a means to operate their "greater plans". making them all terrorists would hurt the gameplay though, i think. that is mostly cause it requires a good bit of roleplay to be a "responsible terrorist" - a terrorist that really works for the greater plan - and then there is the problem that freelancer is not so much dynamic that there s any visible effect on any efford towards a greater plan.

you can t kill certain number of X factions so they will disappear from a system for some time. you can t scare .. lets say planetform and spa and cruise out of a system by killing their convoys. they just respawn mindless like ever before. so its sort of hard to really be a terrorist.

so i think the pirat part of the terrorist ID is a compromise to make those factions playable in a roleplay way. one can say that - the player gaians are there to earn money for the terrorist NPCs that fly against the other NPCs in their literally endless struggle for nature, flowers and happiness - whatever.

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