Emergency Defense Group Enterprise

[EDG Enterprise]

Attention: Any member of the EDGE is allowed to post here. However, they are only expressing their personal opinions. Only messages sent from this account express the official position of the Board of Executives.

To Alley (concerning the ID limitation): We are obviously aware of "one ID one official faction" restriction. The reason why we chose the Bounty Hunter ID in November was simple. It was the only ID that would allow creation of a faction such as EDGE. In fact Bounty Hunters Guild is the closest faction to the EDGE. However, there are major differences. EDGE is in fact a lawful army for hire, while BHG is just a lose affiliation of lone hunters. While the Guild Core is also a sort of professional army, they are effectively not for hire and follow their hidden agendas. This being said, I want to stress that we would settle with Mercenary ID with a Special Roleplay Permission to use capital ships on it. There is even no need to use Bounty Hunter capital ships. I am pretty sure we could negotiate purchase of some capital ships from numerous factions. The main point is that we need an ID that allows use of capital ships or SRP that allows to use them on mercenary ID. I have clearly said that the thing is to be discussed here and various solutions might be chosen.

To Korny (concerning Orcas shooting fighter): Our members by a rule do not hunt lone fighters in gunboats as it is just ineffective. Even medicore fighter pilot can outrun any gunship or gunboat. I am pretty sure that if such situation happened it was just the last stage of a bigger engagement. In any case we are always willing to receive feedback in form of PM. Send us PM with screens or chat-logs and any member acting inappropriately will be dealt with.

To Elven (concerning not being a BHG and using BHG technology): We are not really attached to the BHG ship-line. The only BHG ships we would miss are Bottlenose and Thresher. Of course the perfect solution would be to have our own shipline. But I am sure we could negotiate purchase of ships from various factions. Although, I think there is nothing bad in a non-BHG faction using BHG shipline, like in the case of Hellfire Legion using Lane Hacker technology. Nonetheless, if we get confirmation that the SRP to use capital ships will be given to our faction upon acceptance of our application, then the whole request would be based on mercenary ID as stated in the synopsis.

To Montezuma (concerning Core Ships): Previous answers partially apply to your feedback. In roleplay we consist of splinter groups that left the BHG and Core along with their ships and various angry people wanting a payback or just disliking pirates, mainly miners. When it comes to the Core capital ships you're completely right. Mako does not fit for the role of a carrier. The best ship for this role would be a Liberty Carrier. The whole thing is about the very possibility to use capital ships. We don't really care for the ship-line, although BHG one usually fit our profile, except for the Mako of course.

To Chopper (concerning the temporary hostility right): You brought very important point here that I wish to discuss. I call it Mercenaries Wars. A situation like this happened twice. First when Reavers were hunting us for the Lane Hackers and second when Shinobi Agency was also doing it. In case of Reavers there was not much of a problem as most active ones were bountied anyway. The issue came up with the Shinobi Agency. During three days they killed I think ten of our new recruits. Aeqvinox send a formal warning to Shinobi and the next day our players killed couple of Shinobies. Back then I was away from FL. When I returned I ordered to cease any operations against Shinobi Agency in Liberty and send a query to the admins whether we can, having a sufficient explanation and roleplay background, attack a hostile group or not. I haven't received any answer yet. But I think it is sensible that any faction should be able to react in similar manner in similar circumstances. They killed dozens of us but we can't fight back as there is no bounty on them. This is a bit silly. Apart from this incident with Shinobi Agency we have paid attention to ensure that there was no killing without a bounty. Our vast archives of bounty claims can confirm my words. If ever happens something like this, just send us PM with screens and logs and members who did it will be dealt with.

To Chopper (concerning relation of the BHG ID and the Guild Core ID): Wiki states that the Core ID is effectively the Guard ID. So we treat it as such for the time being.

To Bloom and Killer Rose (concerning inappropriate behaviour): I will repeat once again. If anything wrong happens send us PM. If you send us PM it means you genuinely wish to give us a feedback. All such messages are treated seriously and carefully checked. Some of our members got minced by me after the feedback we received in PM. When the faction has more than 5-6 people in it is impossible to control everyone. But if you only care to post the feedback on forum for it to get it attention, then it means you just want payback and do not care about the improvement of the other faction. The first we really appreciate, and several people who sent it to us can confirm it, the second we just ignore.

In short:

We don't care about any particular ID.
We just want access to capital ships.
Be it on BHG ID or Mercenary ID with SRP to use capital ships.
We don't care about any particular shipline.
We can negotiate purchase of our ships from a Mercenary ID.
But we don't see a problem of having SRP to use BHG ship-line (like Hellfire Legion).

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