Gaians were once a thriving faction, and while I don't play them anymore I do play with LWB, so brad and the others will be of help if you want to develop it.
I'd have to agree with Croft here, way too different from past groups and... anything much in Disco for my tastes.
If you were to take an anti-Gallic route then blowing up the Leeds gate might seem like a good move, but too bad Gallia can still pour in from Lewis like they did the first time. The Gaians have very little actual strength, particularly when facing house militaries - their targets would be corporate (particularly BMM, OS&C and Planetform).
This has been pushed on them by the current ID, which I would ask if you've actually looked at yet? The intended direction is towards Poole where Planetform are building new operations, Sprague which is thought to become the next Leeds, and extending into California to attack Minor.
You don't have to do it as a cooperation with Gallia, but it would be a nice change to see someone ally with them. A good bit of lobbying to them about Gaia could yield some decent results, along with your dealings with the Corsairs and some old goodwill with Kusari.
Circle of life continues regardless of this gallic.. invasion, perhaps it should be the title then? "Gallic Discovery" - For a change I'd like to see someone doing something else with OTHER factions. Who gives a dime on the gallics, just because they did a,b,c,d doesn't mean every individual/faction should now seriously think of ways to involve themselves there. Gaians in this version should be focusing less millitary but on piracy and doing what they are supposed to be doing, attacking commerical companies, and taking care of gaia.
Unless ofcourse you want another faction in the ganking list. ( This works both ways, both houses are ganked, though I recall the colonials aren't even supposed to be enemies of the gallics.. go figure, anyway - perhaps there would be a shift in these primary tau factions, colonials should, as the img remain neutral, the gallics can easily run you over )
Well in the Gaians' case, their old guard system was lost to the Gallic invasion and their main bases are right next to Gallic controlled space so not exactly much of a choice. By going to the Gallic side they are not adding to the gank (at least in faction number) list. Even if you focus purely on Gaia, the Castres battlegroup kind of blocks the sunlight reaching the surface Getting them and Kusari on-side by forum RP would be beneficial.
Piracy (ideologically-minded or otherwise) should indeed be the focus, and as well as the usual Bretonia you have the three new venues I listed above.
EDIT: I'll decline the Skype group involvement, as with the time Circle) came round (heu) I already have enough to keep me busy.
Exactly, gaians should target the british companies to cripple it even further, not to engage in an actuall war ( possible but not in-all out ). Also, theres more of "oh we cant let a house die so we better help them" than a rp form, because inrp anyone who would fight alongside the brits will be crushed and for them doing so means suicide, but because theres no boundries to rl and rp anymore ( thanks to someone that I won't mention ) - everyone can just as easily invent something out of thin air to justify it.
I would try new things in game keeping the vanilla lore than trying new concepts;
I think that people tend to make amazing backgrounds to finish doing the same in game. And perhaps doing it in the oposite direction could work better.
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Things to do as a Gaian keeping the original lore that came to my mind;
Do not become the same pirates we all days see in Discovery
Do not kill transport but damage it hardly. Your aim is not to become assasins but harass companies and freelancer who don't follows, at least, a minimum respect for Gaia
Establish you chart of legal and ilegal goods to be transported
Ilegal goods: Ores, luxury goods ...
legal goods: food, water, goods ...
Make a "green seal" for companies.
You can not only pirate but work in other ways... scout and scann what companies tranasport and give them a seal from green to red. Alert them from the result. Let the companies work quietly if the have a green seal, harass the ones with orange, and sabotage the ones with red... And the most important do it in frames of time, let a company pass from one stage of another if it puts a minimum of efford in game or in forums, you always can become more hard to satisfy later.
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Be subtle
Don't act so openly, perhpas it's hard to not being searched for bret corps, but try to not be so hostile in other parts of sirius to have a degree of grays in relations. You could be pirtaes in Bretonia but just activists in Kusary or Liberty ...
Gaian ships & setup
I would go for a crazy setup with the aim to harass company transports, not to become an elite in the skies; Take the Gaian fighter, full of debs + missile launcher + nuke. Face in groups of 2 or 3 convoys and mining operations, and run when the police appears. Train the subtargeting in Conn to destroy tranport engines and parts... So making pirate actions that makes lose time to the compnay rather than money
Basically refiting the fighter to become efficent against transports and at the same time making easy for the police take you down if they catch you... cat & mouse
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All this are "things to do" ingame wich I think are more important, I think it's better to define the concept after you know what will you do in game.
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Getting them and Kusari on-side by forum RP would be beneficial.
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