With respect to the Hapan/lore issue, you're totally free to do what you want re: name and what the leadercall themselves, but why focus on the Lorell part if, for whatever various logical and relevant reasons, the Hapan-ness of the pirates is marginalized?
(Preface: I apologize ahead of time for this terrible analogy, no offense intended.) It'd be like starting a KKK-based group but being pretty open with who can join and just really sort of hating Catholics. Not really so much the KKK at that point as just some sort of hate group. If this group is accepting towards women and non-Hapans, why not just be pirates?
That works in the analogy just fine and I get what you are trying to say, but they are Pirates first. They usually will work with anyone who isn't going to shoot them in the back especially after being chased out by the Sith. As I said in my first post, IRL that is why groups that are fighting the various border wars right now are have various others fighting with them even if they do not totally get along. They might both be the same religion, but they may not hold the same exact beliefs but they fight together because they have something in common. IC this is the fact they are all pirates.
The group is lead by a Hapan, why would it be weird if he toke up the name of the Lorell Raiders? Yeah maybe we need to try and get more Hapans, but as pirates they can call themselves as others. He could keep the name and change it from survivors to say there are many hapans.
Apologies for the double post, but well, at work, I don't exactly have the time to make long, thought out posts on here, except at lunch breaks.
So, here goes:
1) I can't control people's characters, I'm not an admin or god or anything, they wanna make a generic human, I won't stop them, and halisstrad would allow them to join, he respects skill, and at this stage he needs it to help the group grow and become more powerful. So he's not gonna stop non-Hapans from joining.
2) As I understand the timing of things during the timeskip, Hapes as a whole was wiped out years ago, now they're a people on the run, with no more home, and who left their culture after years of oppression in the first place. Some may allow women in order to have some moral high ground, other captains may not due to years of oppression and what not, captains can bicker and argue, that was the idea behind the captains' table, so we could have all that delicious politicking. Anyway, after years on the run, hurting for materiel and manpower, perhaps even food, would you take whatever help you could get? I know I would. That's the logic behind things.
3) if you have issues with joining my faction other than "not enough Hapans," that's fine, I respect that, but you have no right to criticize me for trying to do what I can with what limited resources I have, which, right now, Hapans to be two hapan PCs that I play. More Hapans are encouraged to join as PCs, and if they join as a captain, they may design the crew attitudes of their ship however they want. That was the point of having players design their own ships. If you want to be stereotypical space pirates and say things like "Aye, avast!" Or make people walk the plank, join the fairwind and her crew, if you wanna play some more scifi themed pirate join the denial of self or the Elysium. You get what you put in, it's that simple.
4). I've tried to be nice about this and even agreed with some of your changes you recommended, people, so do NOT get snippy with me again, please. I treat you all with more respect than that. It may not always seem so do to my rather hectic rl situation, but I do my best here. I can't be on swrp 24/7, and I certainly don't expect it from all of you.
Thank you all.
I ask that you treat people with respect in this thread from now on. We will be civil, or I will ask an admin to lock the thread and remake the whole thing into a faction of pink bunnies called "the lovely snuggy hour" or something. I'm serious, I'll do it. ( I mean it though about the civility, and if I have failed to be civil with people here, I do apologize, it's hard to get the time to respond with more than a quick sentence or two while at work.)
3) Um, I think part of the point of posting this stuff rather than PMing it to admins in private is so people can state their interest and post their questions/concerns. None of this was me saying "jeez Srota you're a big stupid lunkhead" because that's rude and, you know, something I'd save for a private message. :) It was pointing out that there are some inconsistencies that could be tweaked to make the faction stronger overall, even if it means altering your ideas a little bit. I'm speaking purely from my own perspective here, but making it seem like they're a group of people trying to forget the ways of the Consortium, while dealing with their own prejudices, could make the faction more interesting and drum up some interest. Even if you don't have missions to do all the time you would at least have interpersonal drama/relationship building to fall back on.
Excuse me? I'm not putting a character into your faction when I know it's going to die in a month because you were "too busy" and "no one did anything," despite there being a lack of leadership or stuff for other people to do. You get out what you put into these things, and I'm putting in zero because I want nothing to do with it.
Don't make me assume stuff about your faction. Write them up. Or you know, just make a group with no relation to the Lorell Raiders and save yourself the trouble.