This is freelancer Captain Fabius of the SFMCS.Starswine.
Recent events have brought to light the fragile nature of our right to trade freely and without hindrance across the Sirius sector. Rheinland's unjustified war against the Republic of Liberty has resulted in closure of lucrative trade routes, relied upon by independent traders to feed their families and pay their crews.
As a direct response to the ongoing situation I have decided to form a committee to represent legitimate traders across Sirius. The function of this committee is not to try and bring freelancers into any sort of hierarchical association (space knows i don't want to take orders from any "boss"), but to give a voice to the disparate group of traders and mercenaries who are usually ignored when the big houses make their policies.
The committee will have no command structure in a real sense, but will be overseen by a Chairman, a Deputy Chairman and an Executive Officer. The role of these officers is to administrate and organize meetings, and communicate policy changes, as decided by majority vote of the committee.
The permanent function of the committee is:
- To represent the interests of independent traders and service providers across the Sirius Sector
- To expand and perpetuate free trade across the Sirius Sector
- To assist legal enforcement of trade-related laws, including enforcement of smuggling and piracy legislature
Details of current policy will follow in later transmissions.
As of this moment I am calling upon all freelancers who seek to uphold these ideals to join the committee and help give a voice to yourself and the other independent tradesmen and women who risk their lives on the trade lanes every day just to scratch out a living!
Captains interested in sitting on the committee should contact "SiriusFreeMercantileCommittee" via the neural net, or speak to the captain of an SFMCS designated ship.
12-17-2014, 02:03 PM, (This post was last modified: 12-26-2014, 12:52 AM by SiriusFreeMercantileCommittee.
Edit Reason: minor clarification on trade policy
)
Hi Sirius, Fabius of the SFMCS.Starswine here again.
Further to my previous transmission, i would like to announce the initial stance of the Sirius Free Mercantile Committee towards other organisations that we may come into contact with.
Our current situation is as follows:
- Liberty-Rheinland war is massively damaging to free trade within Sirius
- Rheinland is the unprovoked aggressor in the war
- Piracy is rampant in parts of House space and the outer systems
The committee's current activities in response to the situation:
- Assist in bringing the Liberty-Rheinland war to a swift conclusion
- Decrease levels of piracy and illegal trade within House space
This means that committee members should be on at least neutral terms with all major house security forces and corporations, and should be hostile to pirates found attacking trade lanes.
The exception to this is Rheinland, as the aggressors in the war with Liberty and sponsors of monopolies, the committee has deemed the current Rheinland administration to be unfit to govern. The basic upshot of this is that assistance should be provided to Liberty forces in the form of intelligence, logistics and combat support against Rheinland invaders.
Rheinland and her corporations should be viewed as hostile for the duration of the war (unless the committee votes to change this stance); trade within Rheinland should only be conducted with revolutionary groups opposed to the current regime and neutral parties (e.g. Orbital Spa & Cruise/the Junkers).
Operations against Rheinland have already commenced, and i am proud to say we have had enough of an impact to be mentioned in Rheinland security memorandums...
Yeah dude, Liberty is the one who declared war years ago. You've fallen for the old 'Rheinland/Space Germany is always at fault' routine. XD As for Rheinland being 'sponsors of monopoly', well take a REAL hard look at Ageria Technologies. Solar doesn't count as they are in a state of aggressive warfare against Liberty (who they supposedly stole the tech from in the first place.). Rheinland has two major Mining corporations (3 if one counts ALG) which is hardly a MONOpoly.
So you are the guys who got booted out of Rheinland because you smuggle blood diamonds, because I destroyed Starswine last night for not paying the 5 million fine and you bluntly told me you'd just keep going anyways.
As it stands and I got orders from the RM for this during in game, all of your ships are KOS to a fresh new batch of RNC warships and RFP...so ya...
Edit: Found the screen of the leader last night dying to RNC hands to for trying to run and refusing to pay. Here
Yeah...after years of your terrorizm, insults, border skirmishes always started by Reinlanders, after years of lies, trader's and civil rights abuses..while Liberty was still waiting that you wiil end this madness...yeah..that war is totally Liberty's fall..
I can write that SFMCS are enemies of Bretonia. Then, I could shoot you with BAF fighter all day long, despite me not having evidence of your wrongdoing. Do you see the pattern here?
This seems like one of those clueless pro-liberty lolfactions with rheinland hate who try to masquerade as "innocent traders who want to protect themselves and their right to trade". Pull the other leg, it might be more believable.
//ok, to get one thing straight, i'm part German myself and have no problem with Germans, so don't go crying 'deutschophobe' every time i dig at Rheinland for something, please
As far as i can tell from what i've been told, and what the official histories (Sirius-wide, not just Liberty), the previous chancellor started a downturn in relations with Liberty, followed by small border skirmishes, again Rheinland-provoked. Can you blame a nation for declaring war when its borders are threatened? I don't think so.
Anyway, that is my stance and opinion (note the word opinion, otherwise there would not be two sides now would there?), i'm not here to discuss politics or the philosophical intricacies of who technically started a war, i'm here to make profit and stack up my pension, so enough of the waffle, come let me know when that border is open and Rheinland is trading again, i've got nothing against you guys apart from this war.
No one has any real idea inRP why it started, it actually started because RM found LSF testing on nomad stuff and basically demand Liberty to stop, Liberty in return basically told Rheinland to screw off and continued on. Rheinland during that go upset and tried to invade and destroy Alaska which failed causing LN and RM to go into battle basically. This trade thing won't work till either
A: Liberty stops their nomadic researching and lets Rheinland officers check
OR
B: Till Rheinland gives in to Liberty or becomes part of another house entirely (Say like with Gallia or something)
![[Image: E9d8RnV.jpg?1]](http://i.imgur.com/E9d8RnV.jpg?1)
You've fallen for the old 'Rheinland/Space Germany is always at fault' routine. XD As for Rheinland being 'sponsors of monopoly', well take a REAL hard look at Ageria Technologies. 
Solar doesn't count as they are in a state of aggressive warfare against Liberty (who they supposedly stole the tech from in the first place.). Rheinland has two major Mining corporations (3 if one counts ALG) which is hardly a MONOpoly. 
![[Image: 9KgNaeX.png]](http://i.imgur.com/9KgNaeX.png)
