I've got the Horsemen working over the submitted plot points, to work out a timeline. (Gentlemen Advocates, if you havn't submitted three plot points, please...
Hmmmm, Sounds like a time for some of Olympia's fleet to leave service and set up a Private Security Company.... I know I am not one of the Horsemen but it is...
Cl. Real Bad Idea. The would be Privateers would get called Pirates at once. The loyal part of Olympia's Space Arm would get serviced and repaired post haste...
Yeah, But one man's pirate or privateer is another man's Mercenary is another man's security specialist. Look at the Hammer's Slammers novel by David Drake -...
Given the history of the setting, including the Garibaldi Incident, warships not under the control of a soveriegn nation is open season for every other warship...
Decomissioning ships will also work... It also allows them the face saving gesture of stripping useful components off, putting the hulls into mothballs, not...
Cl: Please note that I'm referring to space navy units not ground. Ground military units going provate is quite possible, and indeed exists: one of the...
... Well, in principle a private security company could in fact be exactly that. Still, I'm pretty sure current treaties forbid armed non-government ships, at...
... It's not just Olympia's bond rating that's stressed, and it's probably not just Altiplano that's concerned (isn't Damso a significant banker?). Concord...
... is teetering on the brink due to the costs of their ... large fleet and the Saladin War. Altiplano is holding a lot ... of Olympian debt, and is very very...
... but this is the type of environment that would usher ... rise of private security companies. Look at the Angola and ... Sierra Leone in 1994 - 1997. Such...
... There are several reasons for using mercenaries, but the primary ones are: a) avoiding the political consequences of formal intervention. b) avoiding the...
You are very correct Ben just like everyone else has been provided the ship truly is rogue that has decided to become a freebooter. It is a different thing if...
... Except that under current treaties in the 10W, it's impossible for a private warship to be legitimate (the status of gunboats is unclear; a PMC may be able...
Yep and look at Executive Outcomes and their legal status according to international law in 1994-1997. The company had to close up shop in 1998 due to changes...
... Something you are overlooking is that in the case of Angola and Executive Outcomes, there was a wealthy outside world from which to generate the resources...
This gets hashed to death about once a year. Indeed, this is one of the places where Richard screams that we're locking the universe down too tightly. When...
G'day, ... Most valuable thing I have ever touched was a vile of chemicals distilled from coralline tissue, the pencil battery sized vile was worth over 15...
Also, depending on the supply, demand makes thing valuable. If there is a single producer of petroleum (plastics, etc) and that producer needs reliable...
In the case of the Condoteirre, was that not because of a code of honour? It was understood that once you were placed at a disadvantage, you conceded the...
Gentlemen, I'm currently at Ft McClellan, in a converted WWII theater, on a temporary network. This means if you don't get anything back from me for a couple...
Cl: Also add to this that any First Tier Nation Navy would likely shoot first and talk later as soon as it saw a spacegoing PMC, and you've got the basis of an...
... Sure, but during an interstellar economic crisis, where are the people to buy such a thing going to be? To own and operate an interstellar mercenary ...
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