Defectors

[DarthCloakedGuy]

What about defectors who switch sides in a conflict? Can they keep the ship of their original faction (which they would have 'stolen' from them)?

I had planned on making an Outcast character who was an Outcast solely because of his Cardamine addiction, but personally despised his peers, who then defects with a cargo bay full of Carbamine to Cryer Pharmecuticals to help them develop a synthetic, non-addicting version of Cardamine to free himself from his addiction. Keeping with his former-Outcast-heritage, I was planning for him to keep a Titan/Sabre.

What is the policy here? Is this a "Yes, if you roleplay it, but the Outcasts will want yout head on a platter" or a "No, this is too badly against the rules"?

=== EDIT ===

I probably should have put this in the Rules board, sorry.

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HISPANIANS, FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF HER PEOPLE
A Plea to the Outcasts (PG)
CHARACTERS:
LR-I.Got.Nothin', LR-Empty.Pockets, and LR-Dead.End = "Lash" McDaggit of the Liberty Rogues.
SMUG~Eat.My.Exhaust = Jane Terraman and Bob McAdams, smugglers of the Liberty Rogues.
[H]Cj.Martino.Perez = Martino Perez, self-declared Counselor of the Hispanians.
AVATAR MADE BY SPIRIT! THE AWESOME.

[sovereign]

AAAHG!!! No Titan!

Other than that, the Sabre is a Borderworlds VHF, not an Outcast one. So it's fine, you can buy it on Zoner bases...

Defectors can usually work *if* you RP it well. That usually includes forums. And try to coordinate with the appropriate player factions, it looks better than an "I want a Wrath for my LWB". Speaking of such, check out Zapp's Wesley Richter story.

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[timmychen]

Outcasts can't use Titans.;)

And no, when you defect, you cannot keep your ship if the ship conflicts with your character's new faction (or "side"),

[Thexare]

Other than that, the Sabre is a Borderworlds VHF, not an Outcast one. So it's fine, you can buy it on Zoner bases...

Unless FLStat is screwing with me, no, no you can't.

Now, maybe that'll be changed in 4.85, but until then... the only base not allied to the Outcasts that sells it is a Bundschuh base.

[DarthCloakedGuy]

Other than that, the Sabre is a Borderworlds VHF, not an Outcast one. So it's fine, you can buy it on Zoner bases...

Defectors can usually work *if* you RP it well. That usually includes forums. And try to coordinate with the appropriate player factions, it looks better than an "I want a Wrath for my LWB". Speaking of such, check out Zapp's Wesley Richter story.

And no, when you defect, you cannot keep your ship if the ship conflicts with your character's new faction (or "side"),

Eagles, then. My bad; the only criminal I've played is a Liberty Rogue.

Well, which one then? I'm hearing two different answers here.

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HISPANIANS, FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF HER PEOPLE
A Plea to the Outcasts (PG)
CHARACTERS:
LR-I.Got.Nothin', LR-Empty.Pockets, and LR-Dead.End = "Lash" McDaggit of the Liberty Rogues.
SMUG~Eat.My.Exhaust = Jane Terraman and Bob McAdams, smugglers of the Liberty Rogues.
[H]Cj.Martino.Perez = Martino Perez, self-declared Counselor of the Hispanians.
AVATAR MADE BY SPIRIT! THE AWESOME.

[Jinx]

think of it in a logical way. - in a roleplaying way... - assuming you ran with your sabre ( which is OK ) - but the ship gets damaged every now and then. - sadly though the technicians cannot fix it, cause they don t know much about that kind of ship.

so your ship will fall apart slowly but steadily. - of course you can argue that you can allways find a part here and a part there, and maybe someone that knows how to fix it. - but generally, its not really possible.

to RP that means not to repair it anymore ( or maybe only repair those parts that are not specificly outcast ) that means a lot of self control - cause there is hardly anyone watching you if you are deciding to repair everything.

to make things easier, one should rather think of switching the ship entirely - cause you can allways argue like that:

when you ran from the outcasts, they won t be too happy about it - and maybe ( who knows ) they ll send someone after you - so you cannot spill secrets. - with that looming over you - its advisable to change the name, the ship and make up a fake char history anyway. - cause..... as long as they can track you down, you are in danger.

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[Zapp]

And no, when you defect, you cannot keep your ship if the ship conflicts with your character's new faction (or "side"),

Ahem. *points at Wesley Richter link in sig*

A good example of an RP with a RM defector to the LWB, and I haven't gotten yelled at. Yet.

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[mjolnir]

I think you should switch first time your ship gets destroyed...

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[Zapp]

Sorry for the semi-double post, but to answer Mjolnr (as I think this is a stab at me >.>), I have a case where he got shot down and it explains what happened. Kind of.

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[tfmachad]

Jack Archer played the deserter role quite well. He quit RM in the middle of a fight, firing back at our ships, and after switched ships after being destroyed a couple of days afterwards.

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