Thats probably worthy of another thread perhaps. I believe the standard RK line is "we did it for lols so it doesn't count as rp" ... but I guess that wouldn't really fly with any character who took actions in space AS rp? End of the day I've got no real problem seeing RK as Sansha loyalists and its actually an interesting development of the storyline that General Soter might be working with Sansha's agents to deny freespace in Gallente Lowsec.
I think the standard RK line is "if it bring us kills in space we don't mind how we get there." Speaking for the RPing minority in RK might be a bit of an overstatement, but from my perspective, RK engaged Sansha directly when Soter/Moira. were in RK, once he left and our friends in Reaper Industries, whom had connections with some of the Sansha Loyalists, RK engaged both Loyalists, Pirates, and Anti-Sansha forces in Lowsec close to TXW. The RP around this can't easily be summed up in black and white as "we are/aren't Sansha Loyalists." Instead we are actually anarchists, more true to the sense of that movement. What I mean by that is we fan the fires of chaos and death, using the means at our disposal. In fact maybe the instability caused by Sansha's push into highsec suited our goals at destabilizing some of the governments, perhaps furthering our agents in their missions.
Long-standing dislike is
inherent in the -SF- to RK relationship, fueled not only by current events but numerous previous ones, ie Misan's robbing/defection to RK from -SF- and the fallout surrounding that, "bring it in space" requests by both sides mostly marred by the fact that STIM/RK and -SF- operate mostly in separate TZ's, our Euro TZ being weak, while -SF-'s USTZ is also weak. Jade's near-constant posting about us being non-relevant, fotm, risk averse etc, our rebuttals of the same. It shouldn't come as a surprise that we'd be willing to go out of our way to try to get -SF- kills. We all know, or should know that RK erupts in colorful killboard comments when we lose ships to -SF- and similar good job ones when we kill -SF-
While this might change in the future, RK is not currently blue to Moira. We dropped in, from what I understand, in the hopes we could get a few kills on the -SF- forces attacking the POS. It turns out we were successful there, that desire to kill, specifically -SF- largely drawn from the animosity between our two organizations, and not because we care to directly support Moira's goals, the far more interesting angle here would be to ask Soter why he flew with an anarchist organization for so long and now is pro-fed? Seems an odd juxtaposition.
Today we've seen the first transfer of actual combat pilots from Rote Kapelle to Moira so we imagine this will be a new theme.
I hadn't seen that yet, what pilots have transferred?
Rote Kapelle and Veto deploy to protect the Moira tower (helping rep it a bit)
SF die in a fire to hotdrops.
As yet Moira/Rote/Veto have conducted zero offensive activities themselves against SF infrastructure.
So state of the war. There is a pause for reflection as Moira try to repair their tower and SF make plans for future operations against a far larger threat than initially assessed.
1, It's arguable that RK and Veto deployed to protect the Moira tower, and instead deployed to kill -SF- assets.
2, it's not hotdrops, it was a single jump bridge, so a hotdrop. Unless jade is really pushing the, imho, completely garbage personal definition of what a hotdrop is.
3, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for us to attack SF infrastructure unless a very juicy target presented itself that we could not pass up, and then I expect we would be also prepared for your counter of bringing in Rooks N Kings.
A state of war exists between -SF- and Moira, Jade grossly overstates when including RK or Veto in that swath of "war." Jade also says "a far larger threat than initially assessed," only -SF- included RK in their Ostinhell Apocalypse Now poster, so it's not like you haven't been thinking about us. (how sweet, we have been returning the favor)
TLDR; RK rp is pretty lite, but is well summed by Cass' post in the IGS thread, "To the extent that Stimulus corp can speak for Rote Kapelle (a questionable position, to be sure), we are simply here to make your ship (for all values of 'you') explode." -SF- placed themselves in a position where we were in a position to make their ships explode. We made it happen.
Jade -> I am unsure if your question if Cass' knows what mendacity means was a truthful one. Prior to a bit of one on one with Google, I had no idea what it meant, but it seems to fit well, untruthfulness, so "Jade's mendacity (untruthfulness, the tendency to be untruthful) is staggering, makes sense to me. Just wanted to know if the definition provided there is not yours as well.
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