Evening ladies. I suddenly started rolling around in my grave this evening and wondered why... Scratched my way through the coffin, clawed myself upwards through the soil, only to find this thread.
So... The RoS eh?
The RoS were a faction that brought a lot of life to the regions they few in. Back in the days when they were an OC faction, they were the primary source of brawls between the OC and Corsairs, and that was good. Bit rocky at times, but on the whole good. the period where the RoS broke away from the OC was fun. It produced a lot of interesting RP, and that was aso good.
But here's the thing - As good as the RoS was, and as fun as the stuff they did could be, the background to them was a relic of an era of disco RP that just outright doesn't make sense any more. If you look at the HF's backstory and the RP from their early days, it's utterly preposterous, and the same was true of the RoS.
At the time when they moved to the Omegas, their lore was well overdue for a rewrite. Several attempts were made at this, but with Lohingren not around, people were somewhat hesitant to touch a faction that was in essense his baby. I and others tried, but it alwas felt a little like we were messing about with something that wasn't really "ours".
The old members and some new guys carried on for a while, but it suffered the same death suffered by so many of the old and somewhat wonky factions of a bygone era - Death by changing environment.
If someone has ideas for ressurecting the faction, then I am happy to help them out with background stuff and details of stuff that happened which people have probably forgotten about... It would be a huge amount of work to rewrite that faction's background while keeping its essense and ethos intact, and unless someone is willing and able to do that work, I would suggest just letting the faction stay dead.
TL;DR - I had a good time with the RoS, sad that they died. If someone wants to re-work their lore and put them back in the game, then I am willing to help, but won't actually play.