Current Order Status

[McNeo]

The Order is much more about diplomacy than they seem to be played as.

The last great diplomacy attempt I remember was Aki Kimura getting kicked out of Kusari by just about everybody.

Barring Liberty, there's a lot of stuff to set up with Bretonia, Kusari and Rheinland diplomatically. For example, extensive negotiations that allow you to operate a base ship plus fighter escort in each house, the right to lawfully scan and confiscate nomad do-hickies on passers-by without getting told off by the locals for piracy, generally raising awareness of the everpresent nomad threat amongst the regimes in those three houses and exerting pressure to cease killing each other in favour of helping to eliminate the nomads.

Maybe I wasn't looking, but I don't think any of those have been elaborated on by anybody in the Order, who've been concentrating more on playing politics than elevating themselves above the problems of factions and facing the danger facing every human.

The Order is about the only faction who can have military ties to factions who usually shoot at each other, and should be able to stop, or at least lessen the scale of confrontations between enemies in favour of the "greater good". I see far too much "We must stop the nomads!!!" and not enough "Here's how...".

As to the conduct of the Order| faction, I too have been a victim of the 'Do what I say because I outrank you' rubbish. Of course, I told the guy to jog on. Can't kick my Order Guard IDd and tagged ass out of Omicron 100 :cool: