question about cardamine and gallia

[Mímir]

Yeah I understand, and it is fair enough and it builds on a lot of RP preceding the situation we are in now. I just feel sometimes the "unlawful" factions are left out of diplomacy, due to some player's seeing everything as black and white, instead of accepting grey zones, such as accepting an OC presence in return for OC support to fight the overwhelming GRN force (aren't the Council supposed to be on the run and totally desperate?) - in my view survival of one's faction and primary cause would take precedence over allowing a bit of drugs on the streets, especially seeing that is only the weak-willed lower-class uneducated rabble that would do drugs anyways.

Compared to the King's tyranny and its effect on every single Gallic person, a bit of drugs for the weak-willed segment of the population would seem the lesser of two evils. It just sometimes feels like Gallia is shut around itself, even with borders being more open in 4.86. No real incentive or will to form alliances, other than "the usual business" (IMG who always do a damn fine job of diplomacy and other strict lawfuls - even though they adhere to Sirian laws and not necessarily Gallian, and might in fact pose a bigger problem to Gallia's efforts, although "green/white on scanner"). That being said, I can't understand why GRN are fighting side-by-side the IMG, when Gallia has its own mining corporation.

If I was a bloody french admiral representing a superior force and culture, I would crush any organization able to compete with my own - I would target IMG (even if IMG offered its services) over Outcasts, seeing that IMG pose a real threat to Gallic economy and have a real diplomatic powerbase that could hinder further successes in annexing Sirius, where the conflict with the OC merely hinges on territorial disputes / "red on scanner" / minor grievances caused by random pirating outcasts / the sporadic appearance of Cardamine in Gallia.

|Kishiro are the only ones I have found so far in-game willing to discuss Tau politics with Outcasts, but that doesn't matter much anyways as Kusari is de-populated and noone really goes there, and the fact that they can't form any direct allegience with the Outcasts - in other words, there isn't much in it for us, they would just be using us to fight in the frontline in a war that is drawing closer to Kusari space. We'd be doing their dirty work / be their pawns.

All in all it's difficult for the OC to emerge into more of a "proper" house, as noone are really interested in dealing with the Outcasts in any case. Even LR and other allies have grown tired of us. It sucks because I had imagined we had quite a few things to offer the Gallic unlawfuls (and the Council itself, actually), and they could have been interesting allies to us, but that isn't the way things are going at all. Even with the backdoor open between Gallia and Maltese Space, one would think we would prove a valuable asset to everyone fightning the Crown, being able to supply "la resistance" and throwing our ships into the fight for independence. In the long run that back door into Gallia can prove one of the most vital strategic key points when the time comes for an all out GRN vs. "The world" fight, but noone seems really interested in that, Sirians and Gallics alike.

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