I encountered something today which confused me, and I was wondering if anyone had any insight to my problem.
Gcirthi is my home system, and it's owned by the Pirates of Gcirthi. I was roaming around in supercruise last night, just seeing what was going on in the system now the almost perpetual civil war of the last few months seemed to have settled down, and I jumped into a signal source. A strong signal source, if memory serves, but I wasn't paying much attention at the time.
When I got in there, I noticed a few ISS ships were green and there was a yellow blip Cobra. I scanned it, and it turned out to be a Pirate of Gcirthi. Nothing to see here, I thought, so I charged my friendship drive to jump back into supercruise. As the timer ticked down, I noticed the Pirate had deployed his hardpoints, and I saw a few shots exchanged between xir and the ISS vessels as I jumped out. Xe was outnumbered by three vultures and a cobra, so I hope xe escaped unharmed.
As I flew back to Kent Station to set myself down for the night, I got to thinking: how did this happen, and what should I have done? As the King of Gcirthi (as far as my RP is concerned), I've got a duty to help out a Pirate in distress. But if I destroy the ISS, aren't I destroying my own people, also? Would I have lost reputation if I had fired upon either craft, thus leaving me helpless in further such occurrences in the future?
I've had fun playing with the background sim, and if it wasn't for the idea of instigating civil wars intentionally going against my RP, I'd probably be trying to spread the PoG to other systems by now. As is, I've contented myself with protecting the PoG's place as rulers of Gcirthi, but this incident today makes me wonder whether I missed a trick or saved myself a worry.
Sorry if that was a bit verbose, I thought it was a simple question before I realised how much explaining there was to do.
tl;dr - Minor Faction owns system. NPC of faction is fighting ISS. Who kill?
Gcirthi is my home system, and it's owned by the Pirates of Gcirthi. I was roaming around in supercruise last night, just seeing what was going on in the system now the almost perpetual civil war of the last few months seemed to have settled down, and I jumped into a signal source. A strong signal source, if memory serves, but I wasn't paying much attention at the time.
When I got in there, I noticed a few ISS ships were green and there was a yellow blip Cobra. I scanned it, and it turned out to be a Pirate of Gcirthi. Nothing to see here, I thought, so I charged my friendship drive to jump back into supercruise. As the timer ticked down, I noticed the Pirate had deployed his hardpoints, and I saw a few shots exchanged between xir and the ISS vessels as I jumped out. Xe was outnumbered by three vultures and a cobra, so I hope xe escaped unharmed.
As I flew back to Kent Station to set myself down for the night, I got to thinking: how did this happen, and what should I have done? As the King of Gcirthi (as far as my RP is concerned), I've got a duty to help out a Pirate in distress. But if I destroy the ISS, aren't I destroying my own people, also? Would I have lost reputation if I had fired upon either craft, thus leaving me helpless in further such occurrences in the future?
I've had fun playing with the background sim, and if it wasn't for the idea of instigating civil wars intentionally going against my RP, I'd probably be trying to spread the PoG to other systems by now. As is, I've contented myself with protecting the PoG's place as rulers of Gcirthi, but this incident today makes me wonder whether I missed a trick or saved myself a worry.
Sorry if that was a bit verbose, I thought it was a simple question before I realised how much explaining there was to do.
tl;dr - Minor Faction owns system. NPC of faction is fighting ISS. Who kill?