The Artisan Farmers Alliance is a political action committee focused on reversing the Kusari Government ruling allowing foreign agricultural products into the Kusari market. These products are vastly inferior to Kusari produced food. We are an alliance of family farmers, who produce a Kusari grown, organic product, in the ways handed down through the generations. We dont use chemicals and dyes; we dont use Bio-domes and terreforming gases. We use earth and water and sun, to create a product that is healthier and tastier than any food in Sirius. The Kusari Government knows the fact that foreign food making its way to our markets is poisoning our people, but they do nothing because the need money from the big Liberty corporations to prosecute their war in Britonian space. It is time for the working people of Kusari to stand up, boycott foreign food and foreign companies, It is time to put word into action, and use both your pocketbook as well as your fist to show the Government and the Corporations that our ways are important to us and also in the end, better for us.
Friendly- Hogosha, Gaians, LWB, Corsairs
Neutral- If not listed elsewhere
Hostile- Blood Dragons, Golden Chrysanthemums, Outcasts, Synth Foods
Ships and Weapons
Ships- Eagle (any others need approval)
Weapons- Farmers Alliance and Hogoshu only (This may change as RP diplomacy changes)
Aims
We are an unlawful faction in Sirius, but we are neutral to the Kusari Government, as our goals are not to topple the government as the Blood Dragons wish, but to reform the Government, working to bring the Kusari Government back in line with the traditional ways of self reliance and independence. We will bring about this change through extensive use of information dissemination, and political lobbying. This is a war of ideas and the more the Kusari citizen knows about the problem the more popular our ideas will become.
OOC: This is a statement of the public goals and aims of the Artisan Farmers Alliance, Much like the IRA in Ireland, and Hamas and the PLO in The Palestinian Territories, as well as the Haganah in Pre-State Israel, The Artisan Farmers Alliance will put forth an image of a group doing humanitarian work, feeding the hungry and building small farms. On the flip side of the coin, the Artisan Farmers Alliance will use targeted violence and sabotage to advance its goals. We will use propaganda to affect public opinion, and garner support.
Also, before the flames or rocks start to rain down upon me, I would just like to say this is a starting point, not a final idea. I would love suggestions, any idea on how to make the idea better will be appreciated. I would prefer suggestions on how to make the idea better more than reasons it wont work. This is not a faction post, which is why I am posting in the main RP server forum and not the faction post page. I would like to start by getting maybe 3 or 4 people interested in RPing this Idea around a bit, both in game and here on the forums. I think this kind of propaganda driven RP will be really fun, but it will be RP intensive and probably take place much more on the forums at first. I would like to find people who can fly well, but I will only get involved with people interested in heavy RP.
Ok, let the stones fly
Good Idea for a faction, though I read in a rumor that the FA were reluctant allies of criminals. Best not to have Gaians as allies yet.
But what will you be doing? Attacking foreign shipping? I see no Synth Foods faction. And, a group is already forming for this. Not a full-blown faction, but a group nonetheless.
Other than that, I see nothing wrong that stands out.
Though the LWB and FA have similar goals, they wouldn't be allied. First, they're on completely different parts of Sirius. Second, the LWB are allied to the Hessians who are allied to the Outcasts, meaning that if you were allied to the LWB, you'd be indirectly allied to the Outcasts and Hessians. Seeing as you list the Outcasts as hostile, you shouldn't put he LWB down as friendly. Otherwise, nice faction idea.
Good - another nishe filled. BD are currently getting on the right track, helping KNF in some home defence, You fellaz could adopt this as one of your goas as well.
I am amazed, 10 hours and no stones have come down. That is quite hearting. Note taken of the LWB issue, guess they'd have to be neutral, it is a big thing, bith the LWB and the FA having the same main enemy, on completly diffrent sides of Siruis. Also I believe somewhere in the LWB info it says while they are close to the hessians, that they have tried to stay as neutral as possable in the Corsair\Outcast conflict. Also the diplomacy list will change as our RP moves along, I could see the AFA getting close to the IMG, or KNF, it all depednds on how the story line playes out. Obviously I'm not suggesting that the AFA would be freindly to factions it shouldnt be, but as a political orginization, AFA would be looking to cultivate freindships throught Siruius if possible. Also thanks for the well reasoned way everyone is responding to this idea. again any imput would be much apprecatied.
Great idea, but I'll throw a stone. I'm not sure this faction is really needed. Are there not other Kusari based factions that need people? Seems joining Hogosha would be a good option.
This isn't a flame, just the hope for more membership in fewer factions.
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
Retrieving some additional information about the Alliance, such as the news and rumours concerning them could be useful and handy while setting a neat background for it. And of course roleplaying an individual Alliance tagged vessel with Alliance ID would be helping to get the feeling.
I am working on more backstory for the AFA, rumuors and News do make the best supporting RP. I have a few days off this week, so hopefully I can get a more complete AFA Rp post up. As for the more players in less factions, I guess that makes sense in a way, but I dont nessesaraly buy into the idea, I have seen some great Rp from fairly small factions, it's about the players involved not the number of players. Plus I think the AFA would fit right in with the newer factions in that part os Siruis, the Black Dragons and the NLH are both smaller factions that have been doing very well for themselves, and the three factions could work together for support and RP help. Yes accendency brought up the topic, and I would love to wokr with him on it, but his seemed more of an abstract concept that there should be a Farmers Alliance faction, but he didnt seem ready to move on it. His post did push me to make public an idea I have been thinking about for a while. Anyway thank for the advice, and support to those that have given it.
On a side note I think it's intresting how the forums break down on things like this, everyone seems to be at heart either House, Corsair, or Outcast. The people who are very nicely saying their groups need more members seem to be part of the Outcast or House group (ie Blue Lotus, and RepEx) While the people who seem very supportive seem to be allied with the Corsairs. Just an observation, even when we are not in RP sometimes we still play the roles.