[Alliance] Latest News from Alliance Space

DaveC

DaveC
As little is mentioned in game of news around Alliance space, I thought I'd post summaries here for Alliance Commanders to keep up to date with what's happening where they are. The AEDC closely monitors over 90 star systems (increasing daily), so news of wars or elections, or other activities are likely to be posted here in a timely fashion.

Latest News from Alliance Space
- 3301 April 28 (Tuesday)
- 3301 April 27 (Monday)
- 3301 April 26 (Sunday)
- 3301 April 25 (Saturday)

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Reorte Liberated by the Alliance

After 3 weeks of intense activity in the Lave Cluster, the Alliance Elite Diplomatic Corps (AEDC) announces today that Reorte is back in the hands of an Alliance aligned faction.

Earlier this month, a local pirate group had attempted to rename the cluster as the "New Caribbean". It was a brazen attempt to create a safe pirate haven around this highly populated centre of trade. While local residents were not in favour of the move, the Alliance military was initially slow to take the pirate threat seriously. However, undercover agents from AEDC have been working tirelessly with local community groups all month to prepare the ground for a swift battle to retake control of Davies High.

As planned, the conflict ended swiftly and caused little disruption to the daily life of residents. Although pilots from the pirate faction fought fiercely to defend their position, the combined might of Alliance forces proved too strong. Locals woke this morning to find the "Pro-Alliance League" restoring order to their community. Alliance approval in Reorte now stands at a staggering 93%!

Elsewhere in the cluster, groups loyal to the Alliance of Independent Systems are visibly taking the pirate threat more seriously. In Lave itself, news of their neighbours' long anticipated victory boosted the ruling "Workers of Lave Liberals" by over 20% in a flash opinion poll this morning! The combined influence for Lave's Alliance factions now appears to be over 80%.

The burning question on everyone's lips around the Old Worlds is now: "when will Leesti return to the fold?" It is likely that after reclaiming Reorte with minimal fuss, the experienced negotiators of AEDC are planning something similar in the cluster's most important high-tech trading system.

In other news around Alliance space, this week saw Elite Diplomats conclude high level negotiations with another 5 star systems, bringing them under Alioth's watchful eye too. In addition to those 5 (6 if including Reorte's return) another 5 minor orbitals also joined. That brings April's list of newly recruited Alliance stations to well above twenty.

These negotiations usually take many weeks to conclude and require a lot of highly skilled manpower. The AEDC are always on the lookout for talented, hard working commanders to help with their efforts. Full job training and guidance is provided, and all skills (trading, exploring, combat, mining) can be used with great effectiveness. Any member of the Pilot Federation loyal to the Alliance should visit the AEDC recruitment office at: elitediplomats.com
 
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Trofimov

Trofimov
Thanks for posting this - great to see all the hard word coming home, and wonderful work putting Code back in their place.

President, erm, whathisface, Admiral Ed and the rest of the Alliance Navy Council of 6 will be thrilled, I'm sure, provided they notice.

The Alliance. If FD won't write content for us, we'll make it for ourselves :)

(Although I have the sneaking suspicion post Mr Braben's AMA that the Alliance has plenty on the way.)

Thanks again! The Alliance Abides!
 
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Apos

Apos
Trofimov said:
Thanks for posting this - great to see all the hard word coming home, and wonderful work putting Code back in their place.

President, erm, whathisface, Admiral Ed and the rest of the Alliance Navy Council of 6 will be thrilled, I'm sure, provided they notice.

The Alliance. If FD won't write content for us, we'll make it for ourselves :)

(Although I have the sneaking suspicion post Mr Braben's AMA that the Alliance has plenty on the way.)

Thanks again! The Alliance Abides!
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That profile pic though. Ever though I prefer a close friend of that guy in terms of politics, it's nice seeing I'm not the only one who had those kind of influences on why I chose to support the alliance.

It kinda saddens me that anarchy is mostly negatively reflected in-game though, but oh well, we can't have everything.

True freedom to everyone, for the alliance!
 

Ben Ryder

Ben Ryder
Wishing the Alliance well.

I have been doing some research which may be of use to you. The main points taken from a couple of threads that I have started.

Researched - Which Major Faction sells the most slaves

Within 150ly of each factions capital

Federation owned 32 stations selling slaves - The station are mostly corporate
Alliance owned 20 stations selling slaves - The stations are mostly anarchy
Empire owned 15 stations selling slaves - The stations are mostly corporate

Empire owned 100+ stations imperial selling slaves - Anything goes
Federation owned 31 stations selling slaves - The station are mostly corporate
Alliance owned 19 stations selling slaves - The stations are mostly anarchy

Over all findings
Empire are number 1 slavers by a huge margin
Federation sell roughly the same number of both types of slaves
Alliance sell almost as many slaves as the Federation but almost only ever in law less anarchy systems

The Alliance is the least slavery friendly faction or at has the least penetration of slave traders.

The following are stations within 150ly of the capital that trade in slaves and bring shame to the Alliance.

They could do with cleaning out!

Chaac Lem Dock Alliance Anarchy
LP 167-71 Ziemianski Dock Alliance Anarchy
Asherah Francisco De Eliza Prospect Alliance Anarchy
BD+48 1845B Tennyson D'eyncourt Point Alliance Anarchy
Bielonti Ahmed Dock Alliance Anarchy
Dea Motrona Pinzon Dock Alliance Anarchy
Fuamne Coelho Colony 509ls Alliance Anarchy
HIP 71165 Garcia Refinery Alliance Anarchy
Juracame Shunn Platform Alliance Anarchy
Kan Aphu Daley Platform Alliance Prison Colony
LHS 2317 Cook Refinery Alliance Anarchy
Maringpho Forfait Legacy Alliance Anarchy
Mereboga Howard Dock Alliance Anarchy
MZ Ursae Majoris Tenn Landing Alliance Dictatorship
Nu Goryni Tavernier Works Alliance Patronage
Orishis Piccard Dock Alliance Anarchy
Purui Herbert Survey Alliance Anarchy
Seedi Westerfeld Refinery Alliance Anarchy
Thosimaki Smith Sanctuar Alliance Corporate
Xuan Wena Paez Freeport Alliance Anarchy
 

Aurapup

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On behalf of my Alliance Freeman home faction (based out of an Anarchy system not on that list) before everyone starts a Green-on-Green war to wipe out Anarchies, can I point out that Anarchy systems and Alliance Freemen are a rich and valuable part of the galaxy economy?

Who else recycles any and all abandoned canisters you might find in USS sites without the stress of a full silent running smuggling attempt?
Who will pay off an accidental bounty against the Alliance, with no scans, no fire and no judgement of your mistakes?
Who provides a constant stream of friendly pirates, ripe for bounty-hunting? (Seriously I wish bounty hunters would carefully farm Anarchies rather than killing them off.)
And who else will buy AI Relics and Antiquities at FULL price, straight from the Commodities market? (AFAIK this is only offered by Freemen controlled stations, please let me know if I'm wrong.)

NO GREEN ON GREEN!

This message brought to you by a Freeman fresh from defending Alliance members at Reorte.
 
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Trofimov

Trofimov
Apos said:
That profile pic though. Ever though I prefer a close friend of that guy in terms of politics, it's nice seeing I'm not the only one who had those kind of influences on why I chose to support the alliance.
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I always have trouble with Marx as both a political and personal figure, but then, I'm old fashioned - anyone who is out their nanny while his kids starve to death is probably a bit of a git. But as a scholar he was extraordinary - Das Kapital is a work of genius, Engels probably wrote all the good bits of the Communist Manifesto but I'm prepared to give Marx a bit of credit, and his early economic and political manuscripts gave us "all crime is economic crime", which anybody who has spent any time working with the Crown Prosecution Service (Public Prosecutors for non-Brits) will quickly re-affirm.

Which probably is a bit off topic for ED. Bringing it back, I'm glad to see that representations of Communism in game are not uniformly negative. And the Alliance allows for all sorts.


Ben Ryder said:
Wishing the Alliance well.

I have been doing some research which may be of use to you. The main points taken from a couple of threads that I have started.

Researched - Which Major Faction sells the most slaves

Within 150ly of each factions capital

Federation owned 32 stations selling slaves - The station are mostly corporate
Alliance owned 20 stations selling slaves - The stations are mostly anarchy
Empire owned 15 stations selling slaves - The stations are mostly corporate

Empire owned 100+ stations imperial selling slaves - Anything goes
Federation owned 31 stations selling slaves - The station are mostly corporate
Alliance owned 19 stations selling slaves - The stations are mostly anarchy

Over all findings
Empire are number 1 slavers by a huge margin
Federation sell roughly the same number of both types of slaves
Alliance sell almost as many slaves as the Federation but almost only ever in law less anarchy systems

The Alliance is the least slavery friendly faction or at has the least penetration of slave traders.
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Yeah, slavery isn't really very Alliance, is it. It's a lot of work oppressing people, not to mention very un-cool.

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Aurapup said:
On behalf of my Alliance Freeman home faction (based out of an Anarchy system not on that list) before everyone starts a Green-on-Green war to wipe out Anarchies, can I point out that Anarchy systems and Alliance Freemen are a rich and valuable part of the galaxy economy?
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Do Alliance anarchies still tag green? I don't know what AEDC policy is on this (I just go where I'm told and kill stuff tagged red), but nominally you would think an anarchic 'government' could have a place in an Alliance of Independent Systems.
 

Schlack

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The Alliance exists for mutual defense and co-prosperity. Internal politics of specific systems are a matter for the population of those systems, however distasteful some of their practices might be.
 

Aurapup

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Trofimov said:
Do Alliance anarchies still tag green? I don't know what AEDC policy is on this (I just go where I'm told and kill stuff tagged red), but nominally you would think an anarchic 'government' could have a place in an Alliance of Independent Systems.
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Bright, bright green on the galaxy map. Though much like being friendly with other pirate factions, Freemen will still try and interdict you if you're friendly with them. I'm not sure if this is a bug or maybe an in-game representation of the anarchic attitude. Though I will say that I've only been interdicted by the 'psycho' type Freeman pirate so far (doesn't ask or give you the opportunity to drop cargo). So for all I know the 'standard' Freeman pirates might be leaving me alone.
 
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Trofimov

Trofimov
Aurapup said:
Who provides a constant stream of friendly pirates, ripe for bounty-hunting? (Seriously I wish bounty hunters would carefully farm Anarchies rather than killing them off.)
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This made me laugh. You're right - given the fun and profit to be made bounty hunting, Anarchy systems can be quite a dangerous place to be a pirate! Maybe we should introduce some sort of quota scheme, like for fishing (sorry sir, you can't ruthlessly execute that pirate - you've exceeded your quota for the day and must release him back into the sea.)
 

Chrisfs

C
" However, undercover agents from AEDC have been working tirelessly with local community groups all month to prepare the ground for a swift battle to retake control of Davies High."
Alliance doesn't have as big a single fleet, so they find other ways of getting things done.
 

Stanchion Ra

Stanchion Ra
Trofimov said:
The Alliance. We're good enough, we're smart enough, and doggone it, people like us!
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Well played friend, well played.

I just left Alioth on my exploration mission. I'm not sure how long I'll be in the black, but once I return my data it will be my honor to assist my brothers in the Alliance.
 
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Apos

Apos
Aurapup said:
On behalf of my Alliance Freeman home faction (based out of an Anarchy system not on that list) before everyone starts a Green-on-Green war to wipe out Anarchies, can I point out that Anarchy systems and Alliance Freemen are a rich and valuable part of the galaxy economy?

Who else recycles any and all abandoned canisters you might find in USS sites without the stress of a full silent running smuggling attempt?
Who will pay off an accidental bounty against the Alliance, with no scans, no fire and no judgement of your mistakes?
Who provides a constant stream of friendly pirates, ripe for bounty-hunting? (Seriously I wish bounty hunters would carefully farm Anarchies rather than killing them off.)
And who else will buy AI Relics and Antiquities at FULL price, straight from the Commodities market? (AFAIK this is only offered by Freemen controlled stations, please let me know if I'm wrong.)

NO GREEN ON GREEN!

This message brought to you by a Freeman fresh from defending Alliance members at Reorte.
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If FD allows for anarchic communities to actually exist as anarchic communities and not as the "american", pure chaos interpretation, then I'd be glad to support as a person who admires Bakunin myself.

Which means no slaves.

Until that point, I can't provide much support into that, but I wouldn't bother changing the control of a system as long as it's alliance aligned either.
 

EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
Chrisfs said:
" However, undercover agents from AEDC have been working tirelessly with local community groups all month to prepare the ground for a swift battle to retake control of Davies High."
Alliance doesn't have as big a single fleet, so they find other ways of getting things done.
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If I may suggest ahead of getting a formal Alliance Joint Navy there should be an armed militia that springs up and is ready instantly during times of external threats... I say we call it "The Minutemen"

Wikipedia says: "Minutemen were private colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War." I say that fits in the context of the Alliance vs other major faction, particularly the Empire.
 

Gully Foyle

Gully Foyle
Let the Empire and the Federation tear each other apart and we will be there to pick up the pieces.
Alliance for Freedom.
o7 my Alliance brothers!
 
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