' Wrote:There is actually quite a significant difference between bounty hunters and mercenaries. Bounty hunters hunt bounties... Obviously. Mercenaries on the other hand are hired soldiers, often used in lieu of an actual military force (the sort of thing non-house groups would rely on I'd imagine).
EDGE strikes me as more of a PMC than a bounty hunter organisation, and saying that hunting bounties is not your main goal, rather providing military assistance to groups like the IMG, pretty much makes you mercenaries, not bounty hunters, which makes the Mercenary ID, IMO, the most appropriate.
To further emphasise the difference, read these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_hunterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary
And with regards to the ID, nothing says you cannot be hired as a group to provide military aid. For example, the IMG could pay you 100 mil to kill any Outcasts you find in t23, then I believe you're legitimately permitted to go and kill any Outcasts you find in t23 in compliance with the contract. The Mandalorians have been doing stuff like that for ages.
You're obviously right. I did not understand you the first time. I even pointed out the difference between EDGE and official BHG (not Core) that boils to the same thing. BHG is a lose association of lone wolfs, while EDGE is meant to be an army for hire. So in fact we are more mercenaries than bounty hunters. What I meant is that in Discovery the BHG ID and Mercenary ID are almost identical, with only lawful alignment and access to capital ships being exclusive to BHG. Also, mercenaries like Reavers or Mandalorians are more like amoral bounty hunters than mercenaries . They don't usually get into full scale wars like those between Bretonia and Kusari or Liberty and Rheinland. I think the only time when Reavers were waging some sort of full scale war was when Colonial Remnant hired them to make raids on Omicron Alpha. But inRP they are just a squad of several ace pilots, not an entire army. So while in fact they can perform successful raids on Alpha or Gamma, inRP their numbers should be comparable to a one or two squadron of fighters. Something, that is not considered a tactical threat by a state.
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