Bounty Hunters attacking lawfuls?

[TheMillers]

I don't know about any other hunters agenda, but my and my family members agenda is quite clear, and works well with the Guild's agenda :
Ensure the free flow of beer throughout all of Sirius. Anything else doesn't matter.

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[paradoxx]

well you should be a merc if you like to take bountys on lawful or a pirate ID, but a BHG i would say can take the bounty but he should know that it might mean big for the hold guild and most likely KOS from the nations he killed one from

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe; Einstein Albert.

[MarvinCZ]

Is there still a clause about "participating in military actions" in the IDs? That one covered helping the LN againts RM in Texas... But it was quite a strange clause when considered in every other situation.

I think wars should be left to mercenaries to participate in, the BHG should keep to other targets. That's just my personal opinion, of course.

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Is there still a clause about "participating in military actions" in the IDs? That one covered helping the LN againts RM in Texas... But it was quite a strange clause when considered in every other situation.

I think wars should be left to mercenaries to participate in, the BHG should keep to other targets. That's just my personal opinion, of course.

I feel like I'm channeling George Graves here when I say that you are certainly welcome to your opinion - but we're quite free to ignore it since you're NOT one of the Guildmasters. (Nothing personal involved in that comment - we're just SO used to people bashing on us - and I for one am sick of it and really don't feel like taking it anymore.)

How about reading the faction description?

Faction Goals:
1. Establish Sirius-wide monopoly in provision of security training, route clearance, transport of hazardous or important materials and personnel, escort services for trade vessels, explosive ordnance disposal, auxiliary police services and manned guarding services in hostile areas to safeguard personnel, installations, and equipment.
2. Finance and conduct exploration of Nomad space in search of alien artefacts and technologies.
3. Eliminate persons and organisations affiliated with the covert terrorist organisation known as the Order.

Methods:
1. Utilise licensed personnel, including former affiliates of organised criminal groups granted amnesty, throughout Sirius to serve arrest, apprehend and termination/assassination warrants on targets identified by House police organisations.
2. Compile intelligence on gravitational anomalies used by various smuggling and narco-trafficking collectives and employ ambush tactics to eliminate targets of opportunity that use these alternative transport networks.
3. Carry out covert reconnaisance of outer systems and edgeworlds.
4. Gather specimens of technologies and live prisoners of hostile organisations.
5. Construct secure forward operating bases - orbital or planetary - in unexplored sectors.

The Guild operates throughout Sirius, and its profits finance critical Guild Core activities in the Edgeworlds.

It primarily employs demobilised soldiers from all corners of Sirius, bankrupted businessmen, retired policemen, war veterans, former convicts, illegal immigrants and the dregs of society who are unfit, unwilling or ineligible to lead a normal life or who are normally left doing the jobs considered too dirty for anyone else.

We ARE Mercenaries - just one step above them in that we work with the police as an organized guild. Read Faction Goal #1 again. If that's not a private military company, then I don't know what is...

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Sturmwind]

Right, I've read into the recent KNF-BHG conflict, since unfortunately I missed all the events. It's a strange coincidence, I'd never have thought of such a situation to erupt. Regarding that, can anyone with more insight answer the following questions please?

Is there an open shooting between the BHG and the KNF now, or did the Guild agree to give the pilots back? If so, how does it concern firing orders and roles of engagement?

Also, Dusty's point just got proven valid, not on the contrary.

[GHOSTbielars]

this sounds like we are kinda losing what bounty hunters do. a bounty hunter goes after people that have skipped on court hearings and bail and whatnot. translated to sirius that means that police can have bounty hunters go after criminals. thats it. just criminals across sirius, hired by all police forces.

if the bounty hunters started taking missions to assassinate military forces or police forces, then the BHG guild is gonna get itself in a war with a house of sirius. i mean try to picture the KSP force using bounty hunters to catch blood dragons after the bounty hunters just got done killing them because they were hired by bretonians! kusari will just declare war on the BHG in addition to bretonia. and that ruins business ill tell ya that


if you wanna take missions like that become a mercenary, thats exactly what they can do

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OHSH it's Igiss everyone look busy.

[MarvinCZ]

I feel like I'm channeling George Graves here when I say that you are certainly welcome to your opinion - but we're quite free to ignore it since you're NOT one of the Guildmasters. (Nothing personal involved in that comment - we're just SO used to people bashing on us - and I for one am sick of it and really don't feel like taking it anymore.)

Actually, that's exactly how I meant that sentence. It's just my opinion that nobody needs to care about and I won't be pushing it on anyone. I can live with BHG doing it and I won't make any fuss about it. I'm certainly no expert on the BHG, I'll be the first to admit that.

@Ghost: BHG in Freelancer don't have to match Bounty hunters in real life. Most things in Freelancer don't suits any RL comparisons. Live with it. If you wonder why the Kusari-BHG hostilities arose and if it makes sense for the parties, read the RP posts about it.

[Athenian]

War? What war?

There is no BHG- Kusari war or hostilities. Just a minor disagreement. Apparently over the pronunciation of "sushi".

The Kusari say it is pronounced "soo - shee". The Guild say it sounds more like "Filthy kimono wearing pig-dogs." I believe a minor fracas involving chop-sticks may have occurred, but it is a minor matter that wioll no doubt be resolved shortly.

Aside from occasional impromptu events like this, the Guild remains a truly lawful organisation dedicated to hunting criminals and would certainly never sponsor pirates or mercenaries to cause dischord in the Houses in the hopes of exploiting government weakness in order to garner large and profitable contracts. No sir.

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[Pinko]

Imagine if the RM engages Bounty Hunters to assist them in their raids. Now, imagine that the Libertonians ask for BH backup. Would it split up Libertonian Hunters and Rheinlander Hunters? <.<

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I want to get off Mr. Igiss' wild ride.

[Agmen of Eladesor]

<Agmen is shaking his head>

Now I KNOW I've been channeling George Graves.... and I'm getting very, very scared, because while I'm perhaps not as loquacious as he is, I'm starting to think like him.... (or at least like his alter-ego, Athenian)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.