Fifth Timeline: Independent Factions

With the wide open playing field of the Post-Legacy era and the Imperial Knights being an official independent faction, I'm guessing we're going to see a stronger focus from RPers on independent factions.

Based on the really really really long "Fifth Timeline: Characters" thread, I was wondering, do you have any initial ideas for independent factions you might make and would like to share? If so, please do so!

No.

Yes!

edit: i think it would be top notch to have a faction of force wielding gammorean spies ... but that''s not my idea.

the real idea for the independent faction is a mafia... nuff' said. maybe ill run a mafia or something but it's like legit. the godfather type mafia. maybe two different mafias that are rivals...

Me and Vonlin well mostly his idea

we will be our own independent faction. Call the Vesajilic Clan, which is an umbrella organization that runs the Vesajilic Kajidic (crime cartel) and also the Vesa Corporation, a legal business front that manufactures battle droids.

I will be Durgorra the hutts Right hand,((Sexy hot chick who can fight,lol)) bio coming soon.

I would like to form a Talon Karrde/Smuggler's Guild esque group.

Specializing in sabotage, information gathering and brokerage, and transport of illicit goods and persons (Does not deal in slaves). Eventually would like to have a small fleet of independent captains answering to the head of the organization (me or someone else who the collective deems more appropriate or suited for the job) and being used in operations. Would eventually like to have a Smuggler's Run type hidden base along with a mobile headquarters.

Considering making a character for the Vesajilic clan, planning on making a Togruta swordsman for Raif's indy faction, potentially planning my own with a more cult-based angle centering around alchemy.

I'm not really doing anything until I see some more details about the timeline. Don't want to have to go back and change much.

I'm thinking of organizing the Hutt Cartels at some point, but I've still got to iron out some details on that.

a capitalist organization that is ran by cult members that worship some god and beliefs of a living foce and they meet on some desolate planet and plan on overrunning the republic subtly through economics...

edit: my bad the 'NEW REPUBLIC ALLIANCE'

babyblue said:

a capitalist organization that is ran by cult members that worship some god and beliefs of a living foce and they meet on some desolate planet and plan on overrunning the republic subtly through economics...

edit: my bad the 'NEW REPUBLIC ALLIANCE'

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So basically you're making the Republican Party.

BAZINGA!

Brandon Rhea said:

So basically you're making the Republican Party.

BAZINGA!

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damn ive been founded out... :CStern

legit i was going to have it ran by a character of my own.. ha he was going to be a total carbon copy of george w. bush

Brandon Rhea said:

So basically you're making the Republican Party.

BAZINGA!

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I laughed hard at this, because that is the conclusion I also came to.

If someone would create a 'banking Faction' of a sort?
As it is, every character starts out with 1000 credits and whatever they want. A ship? Gear that's layered with cortosis? A rare and magical shielding device that's imbued in your gauntlets?

It'd be great if people's equipment was like, y'know... Controlled. So they couldn't start out with everything in the world. Have equipment and ships cost credits. Which you must accumulate through RP.

Wait. This is a terrible idea. A system like this wouldn't be feasible, and if it was, it'd be a buttload of work for the admins. What more, whom would be monitoring every character profile and systematically contro- Hnnng.

I guess the community as a whole deals with it.

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Then I'd suggest an unaffiliated enterprise whom deals with Bounties. Like, just a petty subsection where people post a Bounty and it get updated to a 'Bounty Board!!'
Nothing big. I don't even want it player-controlled. (As in... Admins take a 5 min look once a week or so. Y'know).

Universal Investigations: a detective/police organization that mainly works for the Republic.

White Moon: A criminal empire that operates galaxy-wide; Universal Investigations' nemesis.

Blueberrypie said:

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You've only been here for a few days, and in them we haven't been RPing as we regularly do because of the timeline change. :P

Give it awhile and you'll figure out how everything in the community works.

Dancing Lawn said:

Universal Investigations: a detective/police organization that mainly works for the Republic.

White Moon: A criminal empire that operates galaxy-wide; Universal Investigations' nemesis.

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White Moon... Black Sun...

I see no relation whatsoever.

Blueberrypie said:

If someone would create a 'banking Faction' of a sort?
As it is, every character starts out with 1000 credits and whatever they want. A ship? Gear that's layered with cortosis? A rare and magical shielding device that's imbued in your gauntlets?

It'd be great if people's equipment was like, y'know... Controlled. So they couldn't start out with everything in the world. Have equipment and ships cost credits. Which you must accumulate through RP.

Wait. This is a terrible idea. A system like this wouldn't be feasible, and if it was, it'd be a buttload of work for the admins. What more, whom would be monitoring every character profile and systematically contro- Hnnng.

I guess the community as a whole deals with it.

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backstorys play a part in characters equipment development. thats not an issue of roleplaying rules or factions or even control its an issue of writers that make a tattooine moisture farmer own a golden slug throwing rifle that shoots magic bullets... we dont like any oswalds here... i tried hard to control that... a ship.. and a wardrobe i started with nothing but that... and the wardrobe to make roleplaying interesting and give good sensory details.. the ship actually played a part in the bio the charaters story and backstory... the way to fix that isnt a faction but writers....

Brandon Rhea said:

So basically you're making the Republican Party.

BAZINGA!

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Bahahahaha :CHappy

As Vanity alluded to, I'm working with a few others to put together a crew of ne'er-do-wells focused on smuggling and light mercenary activity (think Firefly, with a little bit of Mass Effect thrown into the mix for shits 'n' giggles).

Rom's idea actually mirrors mine, in that I'd love to see this one ship's worth of "criminals" eventually grow into a powerful organization. So Rom, I guess we'll see whether your crew and mine turn out to be allies or competition. A healthy rivalry could be fun to play out...

I can already see our crews competing for jobs :D I approve!

hahah i love that piece o pie reference to your own name. anyways >.> go do that... i'ma about to start writing once i get my friend up over an im... texting zabby daddy sucks cause he just stops replying eventually. and he plays such a big part in the characters bios. his new chars might be my chars cousins. which is boss. anyways... if you start writing make sure to read up on the new timeline outline and keep it in thought