[OPG]

[Muleo]

Omega Pirate Guild

[OPG]

The OPG has been around on Discovery for a long time, but as such never made it to official faction status due to neglect. Here goes.

Short summary:
The Omega Pirate Guild. The name speaks for it self, we are Corsair pirates operating in the Omegas, in particular, Omega 41 and Omega 5, based in Cadiz base, Omega 5.
But we venture further out every now and then. We specialize in piracy, perfecting the art of piracy is one of our primary concerns.
Operating out of Cadiz base, we strive to tax traders, and pirate cargo that can be used by Corsairs, or sold on the black market to fund our fleet.

History:
The OPG started as a small band of pirates. Assembled by Gentle, known affectionately as the Pirate King, found the Corsair pirates to be a disorganized, rowdy bunch, that achieved very little. They didn't cooperate with each other, but actually violently fought over spoils, were easily overrun by House authorities, and
very little of the proceedings reached any Corsairs at Crete.

Gentle was disgusted, and imagined a future, a future of united pirates, cooperating smoothly and professionally. Ruthlessly hoarding cargo in an attempt
to improve the lives of the people of Crete. After beating a few pirates into submission, he talked reason with them, and the OPG gained it's first members. And grow it did.

Lately the OPG has set it's eyes on Bretonia. Envying, their wealth, while the Corsair people were impoverished, Cambridge's abundance of food while the
Corsair people starved. It was only common sense that they would become a steady source of income. Relations with the BPA has worsened ever since.

Today the OPG are some of the most feared pirates in Sirius. Brutal and effective tactics have made the OPG infamous among traders. The OPG's work is two-fold, to scour through the Omegas and bordering systems to gather rations until every Corsair child in need is fed, and to protect and maintain Corsair borders, in particular in the Omegas, primarily from Hessians.

Faction alignment:
Corsair tag
Corsair ID/Pirate ID

ZOI:
Home base, Cadiz Base, Omega 5.
Omicron Gamma, Omega 5 and Omega 41.
Primarily involving in piracy of traders in Omega 41, and traders passing through Omega 5 to Cambridge.
Raids to Cambridge, and perhaps New London.

Ship use:
All Corsair ships, no other faction ships(unless RP related)
Fighters, Bombers, Gunboats.
Cruisers and Battleships are limited to those holding appropriate ranks (Scourge and above, Scourge's mate with permission from the leader).
1 shared Legate, the Torquemada will be shared between the Warlord and Scourges.
Scourges are encouraged to own a cruiser, as a symbol of their status.
Scourge's mates are permitted to own a cruiser if they have proven to be a responsible player and a good RPer, but are still not allowed to take their cruiser outside of our ZOI.
Any irresponsible behaviour with capital ships, ESPECIALLY shared flagships, will be severely punished.

Weapon use:
All Corsair and allied weapons. (by allied weapon mostly, reaper V for fighters, don't need much else)
All generic weapons (CD/CM/missiles/torpedoes etc.)
Code weapons.
Nomad weapons are permitted but discouraged.
For capships, cerberus turrets, and zoner turrets permitted. (along with other Corsair and Allied turrets)
Nomad capship turrets are not permitted.

Diplomacy:
The OPG are pirates through and through, piracy comes first. However, we're still Corsairs, and through strength and respect from the other Corsairs, have secured a steady foothold in the Corsair government, like many guilds that have become powerful in the past have done.

Allied/friendly:
The Brotherhood [TBH]
Corsair Benitez Family -Benitez
Harvesters
Colonial Remnant =CR=
Black Dragon Society -{BD}-
Black Squadron Bs|
Artisans Farmers Alliance [AFA]
Nature's Last Hope [NLH]
Any other Order, Hogosha, Gaian, FA factions

Neutral:
Temporary Autonomous Zoners [TAZ] or [~V~]
All Zoners not supporting the AW
Bundschuh [BU]
Phantom Empire [Phantoms]
Kusari Naval Forces [KNF]
Everyone else

Hostile:
The Union of Gold .:UOG:.
Republican Express Corporation RepEx-
The Blue Lotus Syndicate [BLS]-
Rheinland Military [RM]
Liberty Security Force =LSF=
Southern Alliance [SA]
Hellfire Legion [HF]
The Keepers
The Lane Hackers [LH]
Nova PowerGen (NovaPG)
Liberty Rogues [LR]
Any other Outcast, Hessian, Rogues, Dragons, Hackers, Mollys, BH, GMG factions


Malevolent:
Queen Carinas Own / Privateers [QCO / QCP]
Mandalorian Mercenaries [M]
Red Hessian Army [RHA]
The Outcast Guard [101st]
Reapers of Sirius [RoS]
Asgard Warriors [AW]
All Zoners supporting the AW
Any Mercenaries/Freelancers/Bountyhunters seeking bounties on OPG and Corsairs

OPG Pirates and respective ranks.

Hierarchy
Warlord Overpirate
Gentle

Overpirate
Asno Muleo
Ivan

Scourges (lieutenants, has command of OPG in the absence of the Overpirates)
Manuel-Kollon
Alexa.Cordova
Jose_de_Tolosa

Scourges mate
Yann
Skullcracker
Melkor

Marauders
Ascencion
Eviserator
Conan
Diavolo
Apone
Cabban
Cap_death
Defiant
Horus
Kerberos
Pikatxu
Husker
GabeTheBabe
Kiwi
Astaroth

Dock Rats (inactive/rarely active)
Viqtor
Plumb
Cat
Enrico.Sanchez
Angelfire
-Frostbite
Tyrus
Disco
Sven
Mal.F
Gamma-ray
Magnus
Black_dragon
Cyborg
Sobek
Baltizarr(RC
Uruj(RC
Barbossa(RC
Cortez(RC
Paz(RC
Xalbadur(RC

Requirements for joining:
A general ability to RP.
A roleplaying excercise between a recruit and myself or one of the Scourges will be done, where the recruit 'pirates' the examiner, the recruit needs to show an ability to pirate properly with appropriate RP.
A serious desire to engage in piracy, rather than combat. If you want combat, join the Brotherhood or the Benitez, if you want piracy, the OPG is for you.

OORP goals:
A lot of people complain that Corsair and Outcasts do very little than sit in front of their planet.
Omicron Gamma is full of beginner independents.
Many beginners see Corsairs as 'cool pirates'.
The OPG will welcome in such beginners, and will attempt to instill some discipline into them and teach them how to RP as pirates, moving them into Omegas, instead of Omicron gamma, and try to eliminate OOC in system chat, beginning with OPG members, and asking/teaching beginners how to do the same.

How we're different:
We're different from the TBH and Benitez in that we specialize in piracy.
When I joined the Corsair, I joined TBH, but found they were more soldiers of Crete, rather than pirates. TBH very rarely pirate, and occupy themselves more with the Outcast threat, and the Benitez take care of the security of Omicron Gamma.
The OPG's main concern is the securing of goods by illegal/quasi-legal means for Crete and Cadiz.
Quoted from an NPC on Crete, " Any other basic supplies must be imported or stolen"

[kindred]

I have been waiting for this to be posted, the faction seems active enough and not to much static from the other two Corsair factions. Might i advise a revision of "Trade lanes around House planets." a certain house system is not Corsair ZOI according to the admins.

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Devtonia ; all-or-nothing approach to bias.

[Fellow Hoodlum]

And a small matter of the requisite funds before this goes any further gents ....

Hood

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Some say he is a proud member of: "The most paranoid group of people in the Community."

[Reverend Del]

Okay where to start, nice to see a Corsair faction that wants to operate in the Omegas, means there should be some fun interaction with the Hessians and the Brets.

I do have a few problems, however.

1 Have you paid the 500million bond, there's no mention of it.
2 No weapons list, what are you going to use?
3 What is an acceptable rank for capships? Is RP going to be required or is it just a case of get to that rank, get a capship.
4 Diplomacy is vague and incomplete. Needs some serious work on that front.
5 Define "A special case" under your ships list, on what grounds would you allow someone to fly a non-corsair ship.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.

[Muleo]

As for the 500, I will pay it shortly, first I want some feedback from the people on the forums, as has already been pointed out, this faction description is far from perfect and needs work.

Changes have been made.

"a special case" would be like [OPG]Desperado, which is an Armored Transport, for the hostage event with Bretonia.
But in virtually all scenarios, only corsair ships allowed.

what kind of things are missing from the diplomacy? as I've said, we're pirates, concerned with military interactions secondary to piracy, we adhere to Corsair diplomacy in general, with a few exceptions which are listed.

[Xing]

well, other than the "why not join one of the two existing corsair faction around because now we are going to have 3 corsair faction"... sounds relatively correct...

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[chopper]

I would very much like you to use only Corsair ships, with no Raven Talons and other stuff.
Other two factions have set that example, and every new Corsair faction should follow it.
Corsairs are a proud 'nation' which means they would rather fly a weaker Titan then more powerful Raven Talon.
In their minds, Titan is the best ship in Sirius.
Corsairs also have every single class of ship presented, so there is no need for you to use 'allied' ships in any case.
Well, every except a BC, which is not really a class at all.

ZOI:
Omega space, particularly Omega 41.
Sigma 13, the honeyspot of all pirates.

If you are 'Omega pirate guild' it doesn't make any sense for you to be in Sigma-13.
If you are going to venture there, there will be no real difference between you and other two Corsair factions.
And without differences/uniqueness you won't get the approval.

Your proposal seems kind of small, though I can't really find the reasons why at the moment.
Maybe you should include 'behavior codex' for your members?
I can't really explain it, but it's not really in a line with other new proposed factions.
Though it could be esthetic, but it's quantity it lacks for sure too.

I would also like to see a 'in-faction' rule which forbids OOC-ing in any way in system chat.
This is not only for your faction, but for any new that shows up.
OOC-ing is a serious matter, and every new faction should sanction it as hard as possible.
I don't need to mention that many people think of Gamma as of second New York.

That would be it, for now.:)

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It is every Corsair's responsibility to die a beautiful death in defense of Crete, regardless of how OORP or how capwhoring the opposition is. Launch your fighter, joust the battlecruisers and die a beautiful death. Then, drink it down in the bar.

Can't let you bash folks in your sig Chopper-Del

[Muleo]

well, other than the "why not join one of the two existing corsair faction around because now we are going to have 3 corsair faction"... sounds relatively correct...

Well the OPG already exists and has quite a few members, we're just seeking official status here.

[DBoy1612]

As for the 500, I will pay it shortly, first I want some feedback from the people on the forums, as has already been pointed out, this faction description is far from perfect and needs work.

Could of sworn it was you were to pay before posting, as getting feedback before actually paying just to find out you're not going to get accepted is like... cheating.

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Retired Admin
What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[beander2]

What is it that sets you apart from the other Corsair factions? Is it simply location, or is there something of your story that makes you unique and your faction an otherwise missing contribution to the game?

Location may be sufficient, but I'd be interested in more story, more reason for being.

Edit: DBoy, the admin notice doesn't specify that; it simply states that 500mil is owed from that point on to any proposal wishing to be considered for official status. My understanding is that anybody can post something for feedback.

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar