Question to SCRA about New London engagement

[jammi]

The SCRA were originally fully allied with the Corsairs - not just a tech share. The split happened due to a political falling out between the SCRA's leadership and the Corsair Council of Elders. It probably would've blown over in time, but the SCRA decided to pivot to the Hessians (who they'd previously been fighting alongside the Corsairs in Omega 5) as security. This was when the RHA was first developing their own revolutionary/left wing RP as well, so it seemed a natural fit.

From there, the Corsairs became a primary enemy due to their proximity to '52, which led to fairly frequent raids. Also why they had the system redesigned to sew up every jumphole with chainfiring destroyer weapon platforms of doom. Having people raid your home system is unfair, after all. Raiding the Corsair home system also presented a ripe target for the (then) generally high skilled SCRA guys to wipe the floor with generally low-skilled Corsair indies and rack up lots of blues. Having the Corsairs as a primary enemy was generally considered better for their activity, and between that and the more or less continuous fighting there wasn't much impetus to patch things up.

In the many years since the above through to the present, yeah, the alliance with both the Hessians and the Mollys are primary obstacles to re-evaluating relations with the Corsairs. Even so much as dropping to neutral would require the Coalition basically tearing their entire diplomatic stance to the ground, breaking all their bridges and starting anew.

That said, I have always found the Coalition's stance on corporate players amusing. They want to tear down House governments and decry capitalism, but at the same time, refuse to target the physical manifestations of capitalism in its purist form, and ignore the corporations that in some cases run the governments, and in all others sustain and support them at the very least. Bizarre.

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