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so some of you have seen my RP in my char, TD|lt.H.Bannon
I wanted to know what the community thought of TD| as a faction idea (at least as an unofficial faction)

--------------Backstory----------------------
The traffic department came into existence in various times in history. Mostly in intra-planetary law enforcement where the local government was not able to fully facilitate law enforcement as it needed to. therefore it gave whatever it could to the Traffic departments of various outskirt cities, and they, by whatever proper means, became the law enforcement, taking care of local criminality head on--in the streets.

With Lane Hackers and rogues consistently hampering trade into liberty via the California-new york gate bottleneck, Many shipping companies experienced many losses with cargo piracy along with their ships being commandeered. in order to make sure trade would once again be established as safe, especially on the lane-ways, the Liberty Government decided to set some funds for a traffic department, to police sensitive lane-ways that lead into the border worlds.


-------Role-play-Rules----------------
the RP is as follows
DO
- patrol lanes
- fine/kill anybody disrupting lanes
- fine people loitering in the middle of a lane-way. (kill em if you have reason to believe they will pirate in the future. don't kill them if they pay the fine and leave)
- kill hostile NPCs screwing with traffic (don't do it if you have bigger fish to worry about)
- everything to make traffic flow again. money is lost for every lane temporary shutdown! try to stop this from happening.

DO NOT
- Take bounties. your job is to keep the lanes clear, not straying away from them
- Try not to escort people. We keep lanes clear. we don't want to bring a trader into danger via escort
- Hunt pirates, if you see someone getting pirated 6k+ away from a lane, don't bother engaging unless you have to. your job is to make sure lanes are clear, not hunting pirates
exception applies to Lane hackers. hunt them if lanes are clear. But don't take stupid risks. our ships are expensive and we don't have a big budget!

misc.
- Feel free to hunt pirates well known to disrupt lanes. but you should do this with an LN or LPI officer.
- Plenty of folks like feeding Rhineland materials. more than listening to Liberty law-enforcement. most of the time you wont be able take on a huge trader. also this isn't a traffic problem per se, however you are aware these traders are going through illegal traffic, this shouldn't be happening. feel free to stop em and call over an LN officer with bigger guns than you.
- if you feel a moral obligation to take on other illegal materials such as corsair artifacts and cardimine, feel free to intercept these shipments. just make sure you destroy the cardimine.

--------------Rep Sheet----------------------
--Allied--
- Liberty Police Inc. . the traffic department needs to keep laneways clear, but its nature is to use good debreifing spots, such as Fortbush and the various border stations.

--Friendly--
- Ageira - We have one thing in common, and that is keeping the lanes functioning, we want them to work so trade flows, they want it so they could make money. regardless we cooperate when a lane breaks down and we need them to fix it immediately
- Liberty Navy - The navy's job, aside from fighting wars, is keeping liberty safe...enough for trade to exist... they don't do this well enough... and they take tasks that are beyond our job description, like hunting pirates, and fighting wars with other houses. they also tend to be fickle and do very...strange things... we don't like that.. especially declaring war on Rhineland, when its clear they cant control their military as well as they used to after the recent war in 800 A.S

--Green-- (not super fantastic, but not on bad terms either)
- Liberty Corporations - they make money. we are trying to facilitate a safe trading environment so they can trade and their tax credits be spent on us, and the Liberty government. We also ask these corporations to do certain favors for us in times of need.
- Bretonia Corporations - they make money. we are trying to facilitate a safe trading environment so they can trade and their tax credits be spent on us, and the Liberty government
- Bounty Hunters' Guild - These guys kill those certain few who shut down our lanes and make trade more difficult. we also hire em when we are lacking guns to shoot down some nasty pirates.
- Bretonia Armed Forces - they sometimes help us fight piracy in magellan and cortez... but they don't add to our paychecks, so that sucks

--Neutral-- (meh)
- Independent Miners' Guild - They are a large group of people all over sirius... there isn't much to say about them.
- Liberty Security Force - They are an intelligence agency; we tell them something and we get nothing in exchange. They also like to pass their agenda without anyone knowing or without anyone's permission. In short, we don't like talking to 6 different people whose names are all "John.Smith"
- Kusari Naval Forces - Kusari doesn't have their own station in kusari or the border zone between liberty. This makes our job protecting lane-ways there difficult. Deshima station is owned by the BHG, kudos to them. none to KNF
- Kusari Corporations - they make money. we are trying to facilitate a safe trading environment so they can trade and their tax credits be spent on us, and the Liberty government. but they are also difficult to service, due to geographic problems mentioned above

--Red-- (not hostile, we just don't like them)
- Junkers - See IMG. Unlike the IMG they let pirates dock in their bases. But Junkers themselves don't tend to get in the way of our job. In fact, they help The lanes from getting over-clogged with scrap lying around in New york and Texas.

--Unfriendly-- (those who we are apprehensive of dealing with)
- Xenos - They think we are not liberty born. They hate us... we hate them if they disrupt Traffic. They also make Trade with kusari difficult... but again, we sorta don't care about that zone since there isn't much incentive to add protection there.
- Anybody blocking traffic, by deciding to park their Freighter/Cruiser/Battleship right in front of an Incoming lane-way. not only are they stupid enough not to realize that they are subject to projectiles (other traders) coming straight at them 50,000 miles a second, they are also disrupting traffic. damn them. damn them all! (its a 20,000 fine by the way)
- Rhineland Corporations - if they aren't carrying anything illegal, (contraband is anything in or out of the war zone in their case) and are not disrupting traffic, they are fine.
- Anyone who ignores us and loiters in lanes

--Hostile-- (we dream of strangling these people at night in our dreams)
- Anyone who ignores a fine. They get to say hi to Thor's Magma Hammer from us.
- Liberty Rogues - Nothing personal, but these guys mess with traffic to frequently. shoot em if they are messing with traffic. If you see them pirating some schmuck who decided to stray away from a lane-way 20k away, that's its problem, not the Traffic Department's
- Outcasts - Aside from facilitating cardimine trade, these guys do what rogues and hackers do... so we don't like them.
- Rhineland Military - If they are past Houston, by virtue ,they are trying to destroy liberty traffic. We need to spend our resources trying to push them back when this happens.

--War-- (we are currently developing a way to stab these pilots in the face over the subspace channel)
Lane Hackers - By virtue, Lane Hackers are our blood enemies. They do everything we don't want them to do. They mess with traffic, we try fixing traffic. They pirate in the boarder worlds, We try stopping that. In short. If we feel like it, we will hunt these guys.


-----------Ranking-and-Ship-Naming-Convention---------
the Ranking is as follows
- Commander [Cmdr.] (The leader and head of the Traffic Department in Liberty. Does not fly his/her ship unless these is a disastrous emergency which requires him/her to engage in combat.)
- Lieutenant [Lt.] (Highest ranking field Officer. orders everybody around)
- Ensign[En.] ( has the ability and right to form a wing)
- Sergent [Sr.] (follows orders and follows TD's agenda)

The names are as follows
Lets say we have a Sergent, Alex Ross, in a bomber. He will had the name
TD|Sr.A.Ross[B]
[B] - Bomber
[T] - Transport
[H] - Heavy Fighter
[L] - Light Fighter

-----------Ships-------------------------
- Liberator. - We have plenty of these ships and can order a batch at any time. The LPI gives us direct access to these ships along with their Spec

- Executioner Heavy Fighter - (These ships are slightly more maneuverable than the guardian. we do not use the guardian because that is solely a Navy vessel)

- Kingfisher Heavy Fighter ( We have access to many of these ships. they may not be as powerful, but they are certainly maneuverable enough to get the job done)

-Upholder Bomber ( The Liberty bomber. We prefer to use these when we have them )

- Ageira Havoc mkII Bomber (we have access to these bombers, though not as fast as the upholder, we don't have to worry about running out of stock for these ships)


TD characters do not own Liberty-made ships. TD's ship limit is defined by the number of ships online, sinse we dock all of them in San Diego border station (or fort bush)
-----------Stations-and-areas-of-operation----------------
- Fort Bush, New York (center of NY, and a large hangar bay)
- San Diego Border Station, California The TD focuses in the California region (this is our base of operations), however it will go to Magellan and Cortez as well as the rest of greater Liberty to make sure the lane-ways are safe for travel, clean of pirates.
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fixed some spelling [/edit]
this RP is based off the game, Traffic Department 2192

Hmm, keeping the lanes clear is a actually a good idea.

I saw you yesterday;)
Keep it up and, the diffeicult thing is winning people for it;).

[LN]-Vic.Thorn

' Wrote:so some of you have seen my RP in my char, TD|lt.H.Bannon

so i wanted to know what the community thought of TD| as a faction idea (at least as an unofficial faction)

the back story would be summarized as this: when the times of piracy went rampant, the government focused on spending funds specifically for trade to function, letting the Transportation Department arise and enforce strictly traffic.
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the RP is as follows
DO
- patrol lanes
- fine/kill anybody disrupting lanes
- fine people loitering in the middle of a lane-way. (kill em if you have reason to believe they will pirate in the future. don't kill them if they pay the fine and leave)
- kill hostile NPCs screwing with traffic (don't do it if you have bigger fish to worry about)
- everything to make traffic flow again. money is lost for every lane temporarily shutdown! try to stop this from happening

DO NOT
- take bounties. your job is to keep the lanes clear, not straying away from them
- escort people. escorts are only allowed if there is nobody else to help a trader in need. we in the TD are payed to keep the lanes clear. we aren't payed to escort, on the other hand important cargo is also important, and we need help make liberty function when the LN and LPI cant do our job
- hunt pirates, if you see someone getting pirated 6k+ away from a lane, don't bother engaging unless you have to. your job is to make sure lanes are clear, not hunting pirates

misc.
- feel free to hunt pirates well known to disrupt lanes. but you should do this with an LN or LPI officer.
- plenty of folks like feeding Rhineland materials. more than listening to Liberty law-enforcement. most of the time you wont be able take on a huge trader. also this isn't a traffic problem per se, however you are aware these traders are going through illegal traffic, this shouldn't be happening. feel free to stop em and call over an LN officer with bigger guns than you.
ships
- Liberator LF (don't use a patriot. its old technology and is just going to get you killed)
- Upholder bomber (limited) (need to negotiate with LN about this)
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so here are my problems
a) would people want to RP in this?
b) i gave this an LPI ID, i cant tell whether LN fits better, because TD RP-wise would be [partly]funded by liberty.

this RP is based off the game, Traffic Department 2192

First Edit. hopefully this will generate more feedback. This quote is the origional

I might be interested in this faction, but you should add more ships rather then just liberator.

edited

i spoke to jihadjoe and he said the ID issue for LPI doesn't apply for TD| so i think that issue has been settled

also edited the ship list
and added the Ranking


sent you a pm;)

Hm, idea sounds interesting, but from what i read there seems no chance in turning it into a private company which employs Freelancers like me from time to time?

' Wrote:Hm, idea sounds interesting, but from what i read there seems no chance in turning it into a private company which employs Freelancers like me from time to time?

we will only hire guns when in dire need of cleaning up traffic. That being said, we don't have outsiders (non-LPI/LN/LCBO etc) doing our job. we are payed to do it not you:P

TD will never become a 'private company' since it does not take bounty missions. We are partly funded by Liberty and are expected to manage. (going to try getting donations from various corporations)

also one of the main differences between TD and LPI is that TD is not a corporation and has no interest in profit.

' Wrote:- Agiera - We have one thing in common, and that is keeping the lanes functioning, we want them to work so trade flows, they want it so they could make money. regardless we cooperate when a lane breaks down and we need them to fix it immediately

Interesting concept, too bad I've never heard of a faction called Agiera. :rolleyes:

Quote:-Agiera Havoc mkII Bomber (we have access to these bombers, though not as fast as the upholder, we don't have to worry about running out of stock for these ships)

As I said before, never heard of Agiera, but I have heard of the Havoc, and it is just as fast as the Upholder, speed wise. :P


Other than that, so long as you get along with the factions you are working along side, you should be fine.

Nitram :)


PS - I think the ranks need some work. Ensign is usually the lowest rank, not Sergeant. Unless I am mistaken.

I like the idea, pretty nice;)

You forgot to add the Liberty Security Forces. I guess you'd treat them, at least, as friendly as the navy, or more given how we can share intelligence about smuggled goods, most used routes, ...