How to roleplay in powerplay?

[Straylight0]

Hi folk, I'm enjoying powerplay so far, but I'm having real problems in how to imagine it in my head!

Big thing is the inter-faction hostility. I now have a red "hostile" thingy pops up in the systems I used to call home, but the station still says "welcome, valued ally!" and I remain an Ensign and a federal ally.

It is a bit like being a ranking officer in the army and a British citizen but if I join the Green party and go to London, Conservative card-carriers are allowed to shoot me on sight! If this was happening in real life, it would be civil war in the news.

Then, the minor faction situation has got madder and more confusing than ever. A system can be owned or exploited by, say an Empire faction when it's Federal but still has its original leadership (albeit with influence penalites). What are the real-life parallels to this? Is that like "Bush has expanded to Iraq by his combat technique. But now it has been successfully undermined by Al-quaeda using their covert and fell into turmoil, after which looks like ISIL will take it using combat." Only that doesn't work, because in the Elite game, Bush would have taken Iraq but Saddam Hussein still be in charge...

 

[pippo]

mmh…
Can't help you as I'm miles away and still trying to process Powerplay, but that seems bonkers.
I'd like to hear an answer to that too.

EDIT: I take you have pledge… then maybe the person you've pledge to isn't very popular in your home/allied system.

 

[Straylight0]

I kind of think the Kokojina people are saying "Yeah well since Zachary Hudson got elected he says we have to shoot Aisling's people on sight, but he's a git and you've always done alright by us, so he can get himself stuffed."

 

[Manuelman]

I imagine it more of a roman empire thing, or even an early XX century pistolerisme think. Yeah, official federal (or imperial, in my case) will greet you, as they still, technically, belong to the federation, and they must uphold the law, technically, but out there there's the big black, no one hears you scream and the agents of one and another faction can and will engage in their particular struggles. It's not really difficult to picture, for me, at all. It's like when roman senators would call each other "friends" while inside the senate or the temple, but would gather a couple of evocatiis and murder each other when outside the city walls, sometimes even within them.

It's all veiled threats, hidden intentions and Menzoberranzan politics. That's how I picture powerplay, and I'm just a mercenary workign for a beautiful PR princess.

 

[Straylight0]

That helps, especially in the Empire and Independents, although I still can't picture faction murders in the Federation without it being news. Mind you, I think Galnet's pretty biased. It was certainly against Halsey big-time... wonder who owns and controls it?

 

[Manuelman]

Where? What? Which murders? You mean that pirate attack? Well, they were warned those runs were dangerous. All the resources of the Federation will be put to stopping this kidn of attacks. This is, precisely, why we need a Federation Freedom Act, so that no citizen of the federation must endure this kind of tragedy again...