B|- - Bristol Constructions and Manufacturing

[Bristol Constructions]

Bristol
Constructions & Manufacturing

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Identification

Tag: B|-
ID: Freelancer
IFF: Freelancer

Background

The beginnings of Bristol can be tracked back to the namegiving construction of the installation in late 824. Giving jobs to the civilians of the Separatists, the installation is the first de facto company under Separatist Liberty. Over time the installation allowed a proper company to form and take over most parts while the Battlegroup Harmony distanced itself from it more and more. In May 826 then finally the administration of all but the stations small police force was given over to Bristol Constructions and Manufacturing. The company had properly named and founded itself earlier that year.

While still maintaining close ties to the Battlegroup and the other Separatist forces, the installation and company are fully independent,. The company and base are the hope for the future of the civilian populace.

Having gathered experience and further personnel over the year, Bristol is capable of building some tools, simple vessels(typically from salvaged parts) and installations and satellites. A small group of repair vessels is well capable of repairing Separatist or other paying allies vessels.

Information

Bristol was initially supposed to be a mere mini faction to properly represent the civilian Separatists. The reason was that the military wouldn't directly control the salvaging and civilians that are with them now. Since then it grew into its own thing entirely with the Separatist origins seen only in the history of faction and base and in there maximum reputation with the Separatist forces.

Main operations ingame currently are: base supplies, minor supply contracts and base building. We also do trading, exploration rp and hopefully eventually mining.
In combat they're rarely seen and if present they bring repair vessels to support allies or paying friendlies.

Diplomacy

Friendly
ALG Liberty Separatists MND	Business Alliance Business Partner and trusted law enforcement Business Partner and trusted law enforcement
Cordial
DSE Lane Hackers Junkers Rheinland Military Rheinland Police Synth Foods	Business Partner Business Partner Business Partner Trusted law enforcement Trusted law enforcement Business Partner
Neutral
Everyone else	Open for prospective partners
Suspicious
Xenos Liberty Law enforcement	Their reputation makes the company suspicious Enemy of the companies allies
Unfriendly
Enclave	Pirated our vessels
Hostile
Gaians Liberty Rogues Nomads	Pirated our vessels Pirates Defensive behaviour

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[Bristol Constructions]

Attached requests for converting a Freelancer faction into an established one:

For sale on Freeport 2

ID

* This Primary ID is only available for use on ships belonging to the B|- official faction.

Pilot carrying this lawful ID is a member of Bristol Constructions and Manufacturing, who:

- Can attack any ship in self-defense, to protect an allied or neutral ship, or in defense of a base of the same affiliation, both within and outside of their Zone of Influence.

Typical corporate line

- Can attack ships belonging to houses or organisations considered hostile by Bristol Constructions within their Zone of Influence.

Typical corporate line

- Can engage in piracy against ships carrying and mining Military Salvage.

To support competition and actually administrate the field - Should ALG or DSE be pirated I'm sure that'd also spark law enforcement

Zone of Influence: Bering, systems bordering Bering

VERY small ZOI

Allowed ships: Fighters, Freighters, Transports, Gunboats

Typical corporate line

Mining Bonuses

commodity_military_salvage, 4.0

Main ore - Contracted by Seps and Rheingov, coop with ALG

commodity_copper_ore, 4.0

secondary ore, still trying to keep some subtle frienship with Seps etc., could spark competition. At the very least will allow for miners to accompany the convoy instead of unimmersive relogs

commodity_premiumscrap, 4.0

Related to main ore, coop with DSE, could be 3.0

commodity_scrap_metal, 4.0

Related to main ore - Unnecessary? Just there because all pscrap miners have this too iirc.

commodity_helium, 2.0

Trash ore: Keep only for Penny convoy to grab new players

Mining Ships

Surveyor

Standard civ miner

Scraper

Standard civ miner

Arrastra

Standard civ miner

Anki

One mining freighter should be available

Hegemon

Standard civ miner

Kaiser

Preferred miner, shows closeness to Rheinland, BCV-Pittsburgh had lots of effort put in

Tech Cells

Sirius Civilian 100%

Standard corp cell

Rheinland Civilian 100%

Rheinland closeness - For that few/no 75% with other houses, no own ships

Liberty Civilian 100%

Liberty closeness - For that few/no 75% with other houses, no own ships

Border Worlds 90%

Independent company - Low priority

Liberty Lawful Guns and small craft 75%

Military Salvage would probably yield some stuff but not fully usable stuff - Also possible from Seps

Rheinland Lawful Guns and small craft 75%

Military Salvage would probably yield some stuff but not fully usable stuff - Also possible from MND

Sep Tech 75%

We'd probably help build it but not use any ships or even the guns from the potential political fallout - might be fun for events or such

Rep Hacks

1.0 - Freelancer or Bristol IFF
-0.5 Enclave
-0.55 Wild - We're building a base for them next to Lichtenfelde - Bristol doesn't know it's nomads but they'll obv. not shoot us.
-0.7 Mollys
-0.7 Blood Dragons
-0.7 RHA
-0.7 Corsairs
-0.7 Liberty Rogues
-0.7 Gaians
-0.9 Nomads

This ID sacrifices the freedoms of the Freelancer ID to turn it into a corporate ID akin to DSE/IMG/GMG etc.
Most tech cells vanish in favour for definite ones at 100% and the option to perk more.
Most mining bonuses vanish in favour for good ones that are limited to specific areas.
The bounty rules and sirius wide ZOI vanish in favour for a diplomacy based attack sheet and cargo shipping.
We keep the protect anywhere rule to properly deal with convoys with others or to help with bases we supported. We have no notable combat ships.

If possible we'd like to request a simple dynamic IFF server side named Bristol.
That way people can see diplomacy. This faction does not aspire nor need nor actually want an associated npc faction.
Its base will be Bristol Depot/Bristol Defense Center preferably with our assigned IFF.

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We do not need to pay 500 million credits as we are already on the tracker and paid that about 1.5 months ago.

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[SnakThree]

5k and no negative rephacks. That's over the top on one ID that starts from Freelancers. Are you better IND with mining bonuses now?

4300 is high enough for "freelancers" to have.

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[Venkman]

Well no one treated us hostile yet so...

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[SnakThree]

That's probably because Skorak nicely dodges question whether Bristol origins and existance is public or not.

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[Saronsen]

Well no one treated us hostile yet so...

unfortunately without being able to prove without a shadow of a doubt youre a separatist origin faction liberty cant do a thing to you

you just happen to exist in bering

[Venkman]

That's probably because Skorak nicely dodges question whether Bristol origins and existance is public or not.

Didn't he give you a response or something?

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[SnakThree]

That's probably because Skorak nicely dodges question whether Bristol origins and existance is public or not.

Didn't he give you a response or something?

It's always a bit difficult to answer these things without making a misunderstanding out of it but I'll try.

The installation was initially built by Seps. I guess some people would know that.

It's no longer Seps, hasn't been for a year. There's a similar amount of them going there to trade as there is Junkers, Xenos, Unioners, Rheinlanders, Libertonians etc.

- Admittedly this thing started as a mere rp gimmick to further branch out Sep lore. But I liked it too much so I made it a completely separate thing. Sure they're positively seeing the people they share the system with and who protect them. But at this point if Rheinland law and Separatists regulations clash, they'd probably follow Rheinland law.

The closest thing to compare Bristol to is probably something like IMG. Of course at a smaller scale.

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So to answer your question we have to consider that it's not really Separatists. The installation originated from them. The current people flying for it are all not even ex-Separatists.

Hope you can work with that answer. If it was still just an enhancement of Seps like the original idea was I'd have told you "yes" and I would have set Liberty to hostile.

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Expected behaviour from lib law enforcement would be suspicion and some dislike as they clearly have to do *some*thing to not be nuked by the unlawfuls in the system.

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[Skorak]

That should be answering everything. Treat us like you used to IMG except more suspicious. All corps are currently legal in all houses apart from ALG I believe. I do hope that some sort of more interesting diplomacy establishes itself soon. We interacted with so many people so far yet always everyone was only friendly. Never even pirated.

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[SnakThree]

That's the issue. You are not making it explicit if origins are public or not. Because if it is, then you would remain hostile to Liberty lawfuls. But either way, 5k allowances is just nonsense.

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