Relationships between Indie and Official players

[Decerebrated.Individual]

I had been running the AFA for about 2 years, and was a member of the Kusari government, at which point I talked to the rest of the Kusari government (AKA the Kusari lawful and semi-lawful faction leaders) and asked them if they thought someone actually rping the Emperor was a good idea, and if they thought it was a good idea for me to rp it. Everyone seemed to think it was a decent idea so we went with it. My position is sorta like a social contract, I lead, but only as long as the people I am leading want me to lead them. My authority comes from the faction leaders support, and the players who want to push the rp along. I have no real power in terms of rules or anything like that.

But it should be clear, the Emperor is an indy, and I have always felt very strongly about it. I guess he is a lolwut.

A while ago, while we were talking about the anti-junker crussade, and I called the kusari presence in sigma 13 (aswell as the multiple bounties) excessive and opressive use of force that does not happen in RP canon, and likened it to sieges of pirate bases like buffalo or the rogue destroyer in New YOrk, which are frowned on in general, you said that here it is ok because you are the emperor of Kusari and you say its ok.

So if you dont have any real power per rules, what makes it ok then, and any different from 20 lolwhuts camping Buffalo, because a pirate led them there?