Id: Daniel O'Shay
Location: Athenry, Dublin system
Title: Diplomatic response
To: 552
Listen here lad. We aint caring bout you libertonian traitors. If you cant keep to yer own for good or bad, they shoud shoot you. Do not appear in Republican space, or your ships will become new IMG freeport.
Daniel out.
End of transmission.
//OOC: Molly's see you in unfriendly manner. You are nothing better than any other military or coorporation there, but you aint in open war like BAF and BMM either.
Right, as the leader of the XA, I'm not at all sure where you stand. You're fighting liberty right? That kinda makes us soften to you a little, but with your appearances all over the place, I'm not sure who you're friends with. This causes issues as the foreign ties would make us rather hostile...
Red Hessian Army regards the 522nd as bright red hostile. Consorting with Harvesters and Corsairs, shooting up Hessian patrols, proceeding through Dresden right next to Vogtland in full force while disregarding our communications, tresspassing in Omega-54 with the excuse of "exploration"... the list is long. Be sure you're going to get treated like any other Liberty Navy vessel in Rheinland by us.
Guild Master Vahl of the GMG here,
In regards to the 522nd.
Your actions don't overly concern us, but our tie to Liberty is a peaceful one. The following mandates must be observed, or our conduct in regards to your seperatist battle group will differ vastly.
You are not to enter Sigma-13, or 19, without clear permission and escort of a Guild Master, and by no means are ever to be seen in Sigma-59. If you at any time disobey one of these conditions, or ever fire on a GMG pilot of any designation, you will be declared KoS in our space.
If you abide by these simple conditions, we offer no hostility to your organization. Leave us alone, and we will do the same.
Well, I cant speak for black squadron but I doubt you'll get one of them posting here since they arent the most active people around.
In my opinion, from the perspective of both my junker and order characters... the 522nd started off great (I was there helping walker with it when the group was created), but has severely declined since then. Nowdays, every 522nd player I see is either pvp/capwhoring in NY with little or - more often - no RP, or is hanging out in connecticut yapping oorp. I havent seen any big RP events presented by or involving the group, I have yet to see one of their members fly anything under gunboat size, and they've been shut down multiple times by the admins and other factions for poor attitude and OORP behavior.
I really dont think that 'rebel' faction groups work here. They've been done several times before and almost never turn out good. The 522nd is the biggest example of this - the RP, server rules, ID restrictions, and game mechanics simply do not support the concept of a rebel portion within a larger faction, at least for military groups (which is the only place they ever come up).
In short... I think the 522nd would really be best off disbanding and joining up with pirate groups that already have established RP and behavior (Lane hackers, liberty rogues, xenos, etc.).
The Volksfront will see you as very unfriendly. You fly ships of a house gunning for Rheinland, you work alongside every scum and tyrant in Sirius, and the Hessians don't seem to like you much either. We don't like militaries traipsing through Rheinland. If we don't like our own military, we'll definitely dislike a foreign one.
To put it succinctly, we won't hunt you, but we will be very displeased if we see you in Rheinland.