' Wrote:Liberty Congress should revert to its original mission statement of assisting the Junker Community as a whole, rather than getting involved in local politics.
By "Liberty Congress" you mean the Junker Congress, correct? The faction that put the gaffer in place on Trafalgar to begin with. Taffic went incommunicado, I placed someone else in as the Trafalgar guy as when someone drops off the radar, he isn't certain to return. Things need to keep moving forward regardless of absences.
The "getting involved in local politics" is my mandate and it is for the betterment of Junkers as a whole. The Congress spearheaded the Junker faction's current position in Bretonia through an observed opportunity, and it was won with a bit of brainstorming and McMillan's initiative and leadership. He does things a little differently, a bit more brutally at times. That's the Junker way; sometimes the animals who come by Junker facilities need to be spoken to in their own language.
As for Congress "ownership" of Trafalgar, I'm assuming you mean McMillan's barring Jackal pilots from using the base as well as the stuff that goes on in the watering hole. About the Jackals: they're rogue Junkers, a 'pariah' subfaction on the surface. They're more than that underneath and the 'barring' is a formality that's generally going to go unenforced. Neither Trafalgar nor any other Junker station is owned by any single faction in our eyes; the Congress is simply the widest-spread and most powerful organization out there. It is a gestalt of clans and powerful individuals from all Junker bases in Sirius; operating a mosaic of operations that appear far apart and fragmented, but beneath the surface build toward a single objective.
Yes, the Congress has changed a good deal in its transition between leaders. I've received a lot of criticism regarding how we "don't do things the way Tinkerbell did" and how we're "undoing a lot of hard work". I've listened to this criticism, but I've received a lot of compliments regarding the Congress' transparency and how we're an easier faction to interact with as well. So something is clearly being done right as well.
McMillan will remain doing as he does in Bretonia, working with the Trafalgar Junkers. In turn, the Trafalgars are asked to work with the Congress as well. As I said; when Taffic simply fell off the scope with no warning, a new man was put in his place in the Congress. But the Congress no longer delegates individuals to adjudicate stations, rather it appoints someone to head up its operations in a single house with free-roaming pilots and captains sent between the houses to act as a task force. While it may seem on the surface that the Trafalgar junkers make Congress presence in the area redundant, our methods are different and purpose remains. But there will be friction, RP can be built on that.
But that's the thing: Congress does have a stake in Trafalgar's operations regardless of who claims
the big chair. Bretonia is the big juicy spot for Junker roleplay right now and I've done a lot of work to set a stage for operations there. I'm going to keep things going as they have been there and there are going to be compromises made on both sides.
The execution of the RP I've seen on my other characters has been good. The concept and the intent behind it will cause friction on both sides, though. I really wish this had been brought to my attention.