Alliance gets less love than Feds and Imps. This makes me very, very sad. "Their" ships are available to anyone, and there are no ranks to gri..aspire for. As a social justice warrior, 1) I'm naturally inclined to support Alliance (them being the least of three evils) and 2) feel this is simply unfair. We SJWs tolerate a lot, but not unfairness, or more broadly, injustice! Alliance deserves more love! Justice needs to be served!
Therefore, we need something to fix this injustice. I suggest a special rank or title, achievable by performing a "special ops" mission (similar to the rank up missions for Feds and Imps), once you're allied with the Alliance and have a high enough Combat rank (not necessarily Elite, but reasonably high). This rank could be something to the effect of "Envoy" or "Operative", and grant access to special perks: either a special module or a special ship. Having Alliance rep reduce to less than allied would remove access to the said perk (or at least getting more of the modules/ships). These envoys or operatives would also occasionally be offered spec ops missions, with high risks and rewards. I think this sort of cloak and dagger missions would fit well in the Alliance concept and offer something less lame than the Alliance PP gri..effort, which also is one of the lamest (yes, Alliance is consistently given the lame treatment!) PP activities.
As for the perk module/ship, I have a few ideas and would love to hear more. In the cloak and dagger spirit, maybe something sneaky, like an advanced jammer that disrupts ship sensors and interrupts scans? Or a dazzle pulse which causes all ships within x distance to lose lock on the ship? Or, finally a way to do infiltration missions sneakily, a special stealth SRV that can avoid the automatic detection by a security perimeter for a brief period of time?
Therefore, we need something to fix this injustice. I suggest a special rank or title, achievable by performing a "special ops" mission (similar to the rank up missions for Feds and Imps), once you're allied with the Alliance and have a high enough Combat rank (not necessarily Elite, but reasonably high). This rank could be something to the effect of "Envoy" or "Operative", and grant access to special perks: either a special module or a special ship. Having Alliance rep reduce to less than allied would remove access to the said perk (or at least getting more of the modules/ships). These envoys or operatives would also occasionally be offered spec ops missions, with high risks and rewards. I think this sort of cloak and dagger missions would fit well in the Alliance concept and offer something less lame than the Alliance PP gri..effort, which also is one of the lamest (yes, Alliance is consistently given the lame treatment!) PP activities.
As for the perk module/ship, I have a few ideas and would love to hear more. In the cloak and dagger spirit, maybe something sneaky, like an advanced jammer that disrupts ship sensors and interrupts scans? Or a dazzle pulse which causes all ships within x distance to lose lock on the ship? Or, finally a way to do infiltration missions sneakily, a special stealth SRV that can avoid the automatic detection by a security perimeter for a brief period of time?