This is a "pseudo-pacifist" group of Nomad Infected called "Peacekeepers" that doesn't strictly follow Nomad Infected rules.
They call themselves "peacekeepers" and unlike the Nomad-infected people from base Freelancer, they're disgusted with the warlike ways of the people who infected them.
Instead, they want peace with the pure Human members of the Sirius systems.
In fact, this Nomad faction seeks to ally itself with Liberty and the Order if at all possible, wanting no part of the war, but instead, only desiring to keep the peace.
All Peacekeeper Nomad hosts are willing ones who are also disgusted with war and violence. They want to extend the olive branch to the other side - but to do so, they must be on par with the Nomads. That means, of course, being a Nomad host.
Several of them are pathfinders or "scouts" that are trying to find a place for the other Peacekeepers to call home. My character Kerry (not official yet, though "K_Bank" is him off-duty) is one of these Scout Nomad Peacekeepers.
in short, It's a second group that, like the Vagrants, has a separate Mindshare.
Think of them a more radical offshoot of the Vagrants that chooses to ally with those who are otherwise willing to eradicate them.
"We are a small group, not at all like the other Infected. We don't want to eradicate Humans, we want to accomplish the goals of our masters WITHOUT violence, without destruction and death."
"Don't bother us and we won't bother you. In fact, all we want is peace."
"We'll happily share what we have with you, but it's better for both of us if we're not in conflict."
It's kinda like how we are IRL with bees. Bees share what they can, but if you take too much, both sides (bees and beekeeper) suffer. And if you antagonize the bees, you'll end up stung.
They are NOT true pacifists. If you attack them, they will hit back.
Tagline for the members of the Peacekeepers:
"We serve no one but ourselves. We fight for who we choose."
Also, it's a formal group, but not a true faction, either official or unofficial.
This is because, once integrated, they want to be able to join other, true factions.
My character Kerry, for example, still has the hopes of his host - hopes of joining the Liberty Navy. He'll attempt that once his people are settled somewhere on a nice as-of-yet-uninhabited planet.
EDIT: After having one too many people make this mistake, I am going to fix this right off the bat:
You will not see the Peacekeepers as Infected. You will see us as fellow human pilots (and due to the limitations of the game our characters will be human pilots to start with) and you will never know we are Peacekeepers unless we tell you.
This means if you attack us, you will be doing what amounts to attacking a fellow Human pilot.
So the armed forces of whatever House said pilot belongs to, will now have you as a hostile target.
They will engage and destroy you.
So for example - if the Order attacks a PK pilot, then they will be on the Hostile list for all members of whatever House/Organization they belong to, whether that be Liberty, Bretonia, Rhineland, or Kusari.
"Attack on sight" may work initially, but the end result will be that the attacking group (Order, Core, House intelligence agencies, whoever) gets slaughtered.
EDIT: Again; THIS IS NOT A FACTION. For the third time. (or fourth, I've forgotten which time this really is as I've had to repeat this so many times in this same post.)
It is a group of people that have been infected and are connected with a hivemind. NOT A FACTION.
We are NOT Nomads, we are NOT Vagrants, we are NOT Aoi, we are NOT anything. We are infected, yes - but we are NOT Nomads.
And we don't want to be.
We do, however, want to be treated with kindness. Yes, we're infected - but the infection is harmless.
If it takes over it enhances us, but does not totally control us.
WE ARE NOT NOMADS AND WE ARE NOT A FACTION. We are infected, but we have complete control over who we are.
AND BECAUSE WE ARE NOT A FACTION, WE DO NOT USE MULTIPLE IDS!
I believe I just stated the fact that WE ARE NOT A FACTION five times, six including this one.
To be allied with someone implies the other side actually consents to such relations. That saying, The Order will hunt down you mercilessly no matter your "attitude" towards humans. Also, you literally know nothing about the Nomads. They are a hive mind. There's no "I", only "we".
As I stated above, the Peacekeeper Nomads do have a hive mind. However, similar to the Vagrants they do not share the hive mind of the normal Nomads - or even the hive mind of the Vagrants.
This is an RP-oriented "faction" made so that Nomads can play alongside other factions that they would traditionally be against, such as the Liberty Navy and others from the Great War. Whether they are loved, hated, or remain neutral is based solely on RP.
Also, it is possible for the Nomads to possess a person, but not infest them, living as a separate entity within the character in question. I have it on good authority (from the leader of the Oracles, Zyliath, no less) that this is true.
I believe the Oracles or another already does this part.
But don't you think this undermines the entire concept of Nomads as a faction?
It'd be like a pacifistic Order group that doesn't think Nomads are a threat and wants to make peace with them.
(01-01-2019, 10:38 PM)Saphira123456 Wrote: Also, it is possible for the Nomads to possess a person, but not infest them, living as a separate entity within the character in question. I have it on good authority (from the leader of the Oracles, Zyliath, no less) that this is true.
I'm not hating here, but don't trust what Zyliath says when it comes to things concerning the Wild. When I was leading Aoi, he caused a couple headaches because he went around spreading misinformation about Wild roleplay.
Every, single, freaking, nomad ship is linked in a hivemind. They everybody act like a single entity.
Now, yet is too much thinking absurdly that another mindshare can be created with weird circumstances in just 25 years (NO OFFENCE TO VAGRANT. !!). Why the hell should happen a similar thing again!?!?
Why can't sub-shares exist? Why shouldn't there be a mostly harmless Nomad subset that decides that the same sirian goals of nomad domination can be accomplished through other means than encouraging the humans to kill each other?
Nomads are a species of sentient, divergent, nonhomogenous biomachines. They may have differences of base direction between groups.
It'd need to RP'd very well though.
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(01-01-2019, 10:54 PM)Riehl Wrote: Why can't sub-shares exist? Why shouldn't there be a mostly harmless Nomad subset that decides that the same sirian goals can be accomplished through othered means?
Nomads are a species of sentient, divergent, nonhomogenous biomachines. They may have differences of base direction between groups.
It'd need to RP'd very well though.
Nomads weren't created to be divided in very less time. Only what in biology called "mutation" or an "evolution" can do these things. The problem is that these things don't happen in very less time like 25 years or also 800 years. For a species mutation or a species evolution, you have to wait milions or bilions of years!
I agree with Riehl that we can, essentially, co-dominate the Sirius sector, peacefully with the humans.
Just as we can co-dominate one Human body, as Zyliath said, we can co-dominate the Sirius sector.
Every mutation starts out small - and we don't know if the Nomads have been around longer than the millions or billions of years you need for such an evolution.
Also, you're forgetting the "mechanical" part of biomechanical.
I can draw a similar comparison to the Borg Collective of Star Trek, who - like the Nomad Peacekeepers - were once a violent race seeking only to assimilate.
Now though, they have another sub-faction - the Borg Cooperative - who are still Borg, and are still a Collective, AND YET they are not.
It all started with one random act of kindness between someone who hated the Borg (namely Jean-Luc Picard, my favorite Trek character - and an off-topic tale for another time) and a disconnected Borg Drone who became known as Hugh.