6 total. To be honest, some of us were having IRL, so that takes precedence. And personally only being able to log at weird hours due to work matters kind of inhibits a lot of coordination. And hard to coordinate when the other faction leader is lowkey homeless irl rn lol
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
Interacted with several groups, lingered around to gather intel and pay people for it. At least whenever possible. So far mostly been driving around ingame looking for people to hire and been talking to other official faction characters to get info on the current politicial atmosphere. Most of the RP has been about anomalies and figuring out solutions to these alien catalysts.
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
There is no solid plan but a vague idea of what to work on. Unfortunately it does heavily depend on story development in the story which determines how we react. So effectively, there cannot be a solid plan because you cannot predict what is going to happen, so most of it is a reactionary course of action.
But as of the latest development, there were... attempts to strengthen the Zoner activity in Penny, as well as partake in working on means to counteract wilde activity through indirect means. The latest Jump Drive story beat has taken a lot of interest, so investing into political tasks has been more of a priority versus hunting down and shooting people. I would like to have more involvement of the intel aspect of the faction and go a bit more underground by having hidden operations for conspiracies.
So basically just exploring politics and trying to do some diplomacy. And hopefully try to pick up on a few science projects along the way.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
Partaking in conspiracies, flying around to talk to others and motivate others to go do a little snooping. Been trying to find more people to hire on mini tasks but it's been a bit hard to find unique players, particularly when the pop was a bit low. Been trying to interact with other factions to set off a 'ripple effect' if you will - of interactions. So far, there's been some stuff (indrectly or directly) with Buro, Hackers, Bundschuh (Platform), KNF, Gammu AI, somewhat trying to get the Navy's attention but kind of failing that, RM. Did bump into some indie groups like EX and hoped some word of mouth would spread. Hoping to yap to more people.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
It's something we still need to talk about and haven't had the chance to get together in a voice chat for months now, IRL has just been in the way. I suppose we wanted to do something in regards to Newcastle, Coronado and the latest Jump Drive craze, since the faction would take interest in these exotic alien events. Perhaps maybe expand economic and subterfuge presence.
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
So far: Hung out ingame, trying to find people to hire. Partaking in political schemes to try and involve others for networking so mainly yapping and trying to get people to do some spying or bounty hunting work.
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What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
Inject some comedy into what can otherwise be an extremely self-serious environment.
Promoting more roleplay encounters from traders through mobile stop and search checkpoints. These require traders to engage with the CDI patrol and provide information about the characters involved (captain / crew background, purpose of travel, etc).
Encouraging the use of the newly created CDI Mission Commission. This provides financial incentives for completing tasks we would already like to see CDI constables completing, and will be used to facilitate Storyteller-esque investigations / branching missions.
Create a medal / award / commendation system that is linked to Mission Commission claims, to provide internal progression within the intentionally flat ranking system.
Facilitating PvE within and adjacent to Bretonia through the deployment of the Prison Liner Berwyn, a Forward Operating Base equipped with a Prison Module. This will convert Pilot commodities into Criminal Cells, providing bonus cash for Bretonian lawfuls running the anti-Hessian encounter in Omega-3. Coleraine Distribution Centre in New London will also purchase pilots from the Dublin battlezone, which can be batch shipped to the Berwyn.
Closely linked to the above, additional prison transfer convoys into other Houses, exporting Criminal Cells and importing Bretonian Refugees. These are likely to focus on Rheinland (Hammersee), and Liberty (Erie / Houston). Possibly create an international incident at Fuchu.
Additional events with the RPA and other local unlawful groups. Preferably not cookie-cutter basic skirmishes - possibly a revisit of an earlier freighter-only combat, or a scavenger-hunt type thing.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
Carried out multiple routine patrols around Bretonia, Dublin, and Omega-3. These are announced in the public channel of our Discord (please join and hang out), and people tend to gravitate towards us when more than one CDI patrol ship is around.
Participated (ineffectually) in the Hot Spots server event, which primarily took place near our Sprague HQ. While we didn't contribute much to the fights, there was some interesting tangential RP with the BAF / RM / BDM.
Prompted a minor diplomatic incident with a Samura subsidiary, after they were caught in the crossfire of a DTR frigate being sonically tortured. [1][2]
CDI officers foiled an attempted kidnapping (of themselves) by Noth mercenaries in Dublin. By trading favours and running away.
Participated in a recent Storyteller mission relating to a Cryer doctor who was kidnapped in New London. [1][2]. This resulted in a combat event to secure wreckage from the original hijacking, with the Police forces ultimately retreating after taking losses.
After this element of the investigation hit a dead end, a different approach was adopted. Several of the more "creative" constables took an RPA captain hostage, and (illegally) ransomed him back to his comrades in exchange for the Doctor. This resulted in a stand-off at Halifax Freeport, mediated by the Gaelic Wyvern Inn. [1][2].
To meet the Molly demands, some cargo had to be discretely sourced in a way that couldn't be traced back to CDI officers. This involved contacting the Junker Congress (who have been previously blackmailed), and later [EX] (who have an outstanding BOLO for piracy and attempted murder, so we strongly suspect they're wronguns). [1][2].
Negotiated the purchase of a dilapidated old Oasis Liner from the Bamburgh Company, then converted it into an improvised Prison Liner for deployment to Omega-3. [1][2]
Ran prisoner transfer convoys to Liberty and Rheinland. One of these involved a pair of Bamburgh Heavy Lifters accompanying us to Texas, where they were to be transferred to Bristol Constructions. [1][2].
Helped facilitate BretGov RP and maintenance of the laws post. [1][2][3][4][5]
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
It'd be nice if Bretonia were to invest in a morsel of police Border Station, given that most of our historic ones have blown up.
Additional exploration of unrest on Sprague, and the general instability / fractiousness of Omega-3. Our headquarters is there for a reason, and that's at least partially because the government are rationing the "good" police for the more important planets. Marne-style Molly landing site?
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
RP surrounding the deployment of the HMPS Berwyn references unrest and crowded prison facilities on Sprague. Certainly something we'd like to expand on, in conjunction with other local factions (Mollys, Hessians, Coalition?) in the future.
In accordance with Article 349-b of the Kusari Constitution, the following overview of Uchugun related activity for the 1st quarter of 836 AS is hereby submitted:
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Name of Faction: [KNF] - Kusari Naval Forces
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
Requested a custom roundel, which was implemented.
Requested custom textured ships (namely reintroducing the KuExile ships for [KNF] access), implementation approved for next patch. A texture overhaul is WIP (with many Kudos to Caedus for voluntarily doing this)
Pending decision where to place our FoB. Might have it figured out by the end of the quarter. (as of 29.03 that's a no. FoB will be for next quarter)
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
Depending on the FoB location, a supply event will be submitted.
Continue to prepare for all eventualities iRP related to the tensions with Liberty and the Kishiro Jump Drive leaks. Including but not limited to multiple faction spanning approaches on how to deal with the JD leak (e.g. development of own countermeasures and the idea of spreading a 2nd leak aimed at rendering the 1st leaks content less harmful)
Introduce a new sub-division aimed at lowering the threshold for entering the sphere of lawful RP and gameplay by promoting training and an environment rendering low pvp or RP experience a non-issue. Instead it'll aim for an easy approach to learn both in a laidback environment. This will occur alongside the patch day as it will make exclusive use of the Imperial snubline re-added for our usage.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
Held the aforementioned Parliamentary Elections with impressive community wide participation (thanks to all again)
Voluntarily opening the Government RP angle to the creators of the political parties used for the election by letting them in on shaping future RP together.
Assisted in the removal of a GNI Outpost as part of the wider Harris Alliance RP (*)(*)
Signed off on a player RP submission to Kusari Gov, as part of their characters story (*)
Portrayed consequences to the IKN-Niyodo Official Event amidst post-election chaos (*)
Brought back the Naval Secret Police as means to push forward upcoming societal and ingame behavior changes related to the election results (*)
Created a Contingency Plan in circumstances where Kusari loses control over a sovereign system as part of the "Be prepared for all eventualities" series related to Liberty and JDs (*)
Begun with preparations for Operation "Kantai Kessen", a warplan discussing a decisive first strike on Liberty using the JD advantage. (*)(*) It is part of the "Be prepared for all eventualities" series and will lead over to several other warplans and a logistical event, all of which will be opened up to indie participation down the road.
WIP discussions with the BAF (an important to us strategic partner due to their role as testbed for the Jump Drive during military deployments) related to the very JD leak and potential joint approaches on how to deal with it. (*)
Committed to several patrols in Galileo and the Taus (*)(*) - However due to the current version of the DMTN, the vast majority come with no forum RP to show off. Very lame. Rephrase the rule asap please.
29.03 late entry: Utilized a by change ingame encounter to highlight and internally announce (to all lawfuls) how Kusari will proceed dealing with non-Kishiro built Jump Drives. (*)
29.03 late entry: First News Report and Gov policy being part of next quarters "Continue to prepare for all eventualities iRP related to the tensions with Liberty" point. Here; introduction of mandatory military service with either the ground forces or the KNF. (*)
Responded to the usual raids and pvps, as well as smugglers.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
Continue and finalize Project Toyotomi, resulting in a small Outpost NPC base in Hokkaido.
See an expansion to the Hitokappu Logistics Area.
Guess going to war? Maybe not. It seems very uncertain as of late.
Push forward with the Kusari internal JD leak reactions enough that @jammi has to acknowledge them
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
For future development? Not much at all next to the war plans, we were too busy focusing on the JD leak related matters. Expansions to the Logistics Area (likely tied to FoB) and pushing forward with Project Toyotomi are planned for next quarter and not in preparation of it.
In the name of his Imperial Majesty Tetsuya Kogen,
The Uchugun Admiralty
Name of Faction: [GN] Name of Faction Leader: @vladimir26 Number of Active Players this Quarter: More than 3, according to this.
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
As this is the first quarterly report, we had no previous precise goals, just ideas. So, whatever came up randomly, we pursued it, some more than others.
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
We have quite a few ideas, mostly around the Taus and the factions found within. For the time being, I think we kinda exhausted our RP options with Rheinland, and we won't push it just for the sake of having what to fill the next report with.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
We had an unofficial event organized by our very own MHS(idk why I can't tag him), a few more raid logs or planned pews, and attempted to defend this.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
For the long them I'd like Gallia to become more open, welcome more outsiders, all with the goal to make it stronger by gaining access to resources and so on.
Name of Faction: OS&C Orbital Spa and Cruise Name of Faction Leader: Lord Helmchen Number of Active Players this Quarter: 7
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
[] We have taken in new Members
[] We have started some New RPs to connect to other factions
[] We Tried to Weather ourselves for the Coming War.
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
[] To Survive and Strife in the Coming Kusari Liberty War. Maybe offer ourselves as Hosts for Negotiations
[] Relocation of the POB/Liner Maldives to safer waters.
[] Improve Relations with Gallic Factions to Improve RP on that Front.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high-quality roleplay this quarter?
We have taken in new Members and apart from that, we did the Usual and just had some Fun Cruiseing around Sirius and Gallia.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
A long-time dream would be to add the Old Liner Shetland to the Leeds Memorial. Maybe she is at the end of her lifespan as a liner, but could still be used as a museum ship. We could replace her in-game Solar with a New Model of a Bretonia Luxury Liner that gets stationed somewhere in beautiful Bretonia. So it would basically be a Shetland 2 in that case, a new ship to carry the old Glory into a new Age.
Apart from that, we would like to see where the Kusari/Liberty War will lead us RP-wise.
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
Sadly, none when it comes to the Shetland, but we would like to explore some comms with the Bretonian Government in the next quarter and see if they like the idea.
Name of Faction: Malta Hyperspace Starfleet Name of Faction Leader:BobMacaroni Number of Active Players this Quarter: 5
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
Most of our short-term goals were accomplished last quarter, with the Outcasts gaining increased security measures in Omicron Alpha and now enjoying a comfy, entrenched position. At the moment we're still looking for our next steps.
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
I would quite like to expand our operations in Liberty in order to fully revitalize the Cardamine network. Probably launch some events circling around that as well. I'm also looking to keep an eye out on how the story develops around Jump Drives and if that is something we can feasibly poke our heads in sometime in the near future, but otherwise "Cardamine In Liberty Again" is the main thing.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
We've been trying to show our presence around Sirius some more, either by traditional raids, joining allied ambushes, or random interactions. Mainly playing the part of the pirate in hopes that lawfuls will log and we can get an interaction out of it. In terms of roleplay its been mainly random in game interactions, though I did recently have the pleasure ofrenewing our ties with Phoenix
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
Now that we're pretty well-situated back at home, seeing some more presence in Liberty and the Houses again would be nice. The whole "slave revolt/cardamine network collapse" story arc was never fully resolved, and I would like to be able to see us returning in force to our old friends down in the houses. The Newcastle developments could also be interesting and I would like to see how they will develop, but I believe the biggest priority for Malta at the moment is restoring its main engine (the Cardamine network) back to full capacity.
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
At the moment this new direction is still in planning. I haven't yet considered the ins and outs of what we want to do in order to make this development happen, just that this is the direction I'm looking to take HS> and by extension the Outcast story in the near future.
Name of Faction:Liberty Navy First Fleet - [LN] Name of Faction Leader:@Cherry Blossom Number of Active Players this Quarter:9
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter? We've set about restructuring the faction with the aim of bringing it back to a fully functioning and active faction. In addition to this, we’ve taken on some new members to support this goal and also conducted various patrols as well as checkpoint operations as per the ongoing Kusari/Liberty tensions. Although this is aside from generally roleplaying a military faction with whoever we've been fortunate enough to encounter in-game.
See links to ongoing examples of RP for the faction below:
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter? Continue the above and to host an event that is currently being discussed, again in relation to the ongoing Liberty/Kusari tensions. (Possibly two). We're also aiming to continue the ongoing standard of quality RP in-game and on the forums.
In addition to the above we're also looking to continue updating existing faction related threads to bring these up to date as per our aim to bring the faction back to life.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter? Actively log in, respond to unlawful activity within Liberty. Participate in border checkpoint activities as above. See the various roleplay posts (Primarily around the faction MD) however we do have other in house related comms ongoing concerning the Kusari/Liberty conflict.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward? We've yet to discuss this, due to new faction management etc this topic is on a very long list of things to look at. Although the Liberty/Kusari war is likely to be a large part of it. One of the first things we wish to focus on strengthening the Navy by refitting our older, mothballed assets like the Minneapolis while potentially constructing new vessels and assets through RP. (Like we spoke about in the gov chat about the half-done Akhetaten class.)
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development? We've participated in an unofficial event in Coronado, general logging in in game, interacting with other players and engaging in forum RP. In addition we have been actively talking with other faction leaders and story developers to make the above happen.
Name of Faction: Xeno Alliance Name of Faction Leader: @Reeves Number of Active Players this Quarter: 3
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
Various threads of forum roleplay and roleplay on the live server, such as the plan to false flag the Lib-Ku war and the Peary Pact.
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
Continue development of the aforesaid two plans, and initiate a third in the form of a small-scale expulsion campaign to secure Huron and its orbit. This way Bristol can commence work to slowly bring Toronto back to its intended state of being an industrial center.
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
Generally just be available to respond to comms and include people in the process of storytelling and worldbuilding around the things we do.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
Having defacto taken Ontario brings with it a host of short-term issues, mostly in the form of priorities, and of course the elephant in the room being Sudbury. It would be nice to see us grapple with the growing pains of trying to administer territory as well as survey the extent of the energy beam that was ripping through space only months prior.
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
No events. But here are some, but not all, connected roleplay threads pertaining to the things we did this quarter:
1) Peary PactIce, Steel, and Revolt
2) XA -> Bowman
3) Bristol -> XA/Lovelace
4) Pylʹnist -> XA-Cobra
On indefinite hiatus because the current state of gameplay sucks - ping me over discord if replies are needed
Name of Faction: The Platform Name of Faction Leader: @Civil Servant Number of Active Players this Quarter: 4
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
Developing relations and supporting other pro-democratic & anti-authoritarian liberation movements. Such as combat support in Pennsylvania and opening diplomacy with blood dragon cells.
To build up a network of reliable anti-nomad operatives, bilateral support for order forces in the omicrons and their local cells in Rheinland.
Building networks with people individually rather than the organization they would represent, and sowing distrust in the imperials to those that are still uncomfortable with their new government.
Furthering advancements in science to resist any form of corporate domination in various industries, and to supplement groups left behind unjustly.
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
Countering the Hammersee prison economy and disrupting Rheinland corporations that directly use prison labor to supplement their operations.
Continue building relations with other Sinclair protocol members (Blood dragons, Lane Hackers, Order.) Branching abilities across Sirius, combat Core strength, combating nomads, and preparing for any consequences of the AI rebellion.
Potentially looking at PoB deployment as Bundschuh, mining bonuses maybe? (Faction Perk request had been sent already.)
What have you done to drive activity and promote high quality roleplay this quarter?
Giving awareness that the Bundschuh are exploring other options rather than outright hostility to the Gammuian AI, mainly by approaching this as a resistance to a genocide and active persecution.
Stalwart opponent to the Omicron Nomads and Wilde, acting as intelligence gatherers with moral concerns for a civilian population. Cooperation with sympathetic parties that would be considered unorthodox.
Jump-space related roleplay, focusing on mega corporation control and looking for alternatives for freedom of movement.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
- Take a more offensive role against the Imperials with desires of change to systemic corruption locally in Rheinland.
- Taking advantage of market instability with the growing tensions across Sirius, interconnected economies that pass through the sigma-rheinland corridors.
- Highlighting how the Bundschuh have the ability to work with a wide range of other factions. Abilities to negotiate between other parties of the underground without compromising to contrarian ideologies.
- Increase in Sinclair protocol activities. More involvement with allies in a range of work, securing technologies to counter house corruption and abuse, and against increasing hostile nomad attacks. Open-source/Open-knowledge attitude with close partners in technological developments.
- Promote the Bundschuh as a respected party within the underground supply chain, this is done with material and dissident smuggling to bolster other movements across Sirius. Paramilitary support with some parties like Pennsylvania's militants, and Blood Dragons in combined operations in the sigmas. (Easy addition would be docking rights on Marne's atmospheric entry for Bundschuh ID's.)
The Bundschuh NPC bases still require lots of info cards update in general, will look at working on this too.
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
Majority of interactions have been random encounters with other players with usual resistance/rebellion/terrorist themes. And stories revolving around the Nomad conflicts, environmental consequences of the jump networks deterioration.
Cooperation with other factions to support common goals without compromising on political aims (Platform Tenets):
- Assistance to the AI against the Core, While individual characters may have motives, the collective goal is to help the AI against the Core and Nomads. Directly conversing with them and gathering intelligence with other parties to establish their long term objectives. A delicate matter as a Sinclair Protocol partner.
- Increase corporate piracy and terrorist risk in Rheinland and it's border worlds, with means to cause disruption in the trust of a capitalist system. (Sorry traders.)
- Working with neighboring organizations to spread awareness of common struggles, and exchanging compatible ideology leaning into progressive left wing themes.
Name of Faction: The Gen'an Chrysanthemums Name of Faction Leader: @Megaera Number of Active Players this Quarter: 5 as per faction rules
What have you done to advance your faction’s goals this quarter?
Increased the shige production, piracy, smuggling, RP with other factions, finding random activity, and having fun in general.
We have also requested the GC- roundels to be implemented so our members can sport our emblem on our ship.[/size]
What are your faction’s goals for the next quarter?
We want to continue the RP around the chef contest, and win it. This will hopefully give some factions interesting things to do, and maybe lead to other things. Catto is also in the early stages of making plans for other RP related to GC. It has to do with an idol band apparantly for sure. (I had to change this according to him).
We also are beginning to get more involved in the Kusari/Liberty conflict. We already had encounters with both the LSF and KOI who were present in Galileo.
How would you like your NPC faction’s story to be developed moving forward?
We want to tow the Matsuda back into the cloud and put effort into salvaging what we can. Perhaps turn it back into a functional base.
What roleplay, events, or activities have you done this quarter to promote this development?
We have yet to start this. Had too much work at uni to make long term plans until recently. But I will have more time in the forseeable future.
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