War with Centrality

[Dmitri]

Note: This is just a random idea I had and thought I'd let people discuss it before I even consider possibly doing this.

Basically, right now I'm trying to avoid actually warring with the GA, for now. I'd rather solidify boarders and alliances. However, as shown through other factions, war helps with activity. Battle of Yashuvhu is coming up, but I'm unsure how helpful that will be, since it's only a single battle and only against NPC forces. My random idea was that we could possibly invade the Centrality. They are currently neutral, and not a part of the GA, so we wouldn't be doing them any damage. We already have Sith allies in the Centrality in the form of Christian Shepherd's (Geist Weiss') Skeith Centrality.

Thoughts?

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Chiming in for a second here...

For starters, don’t take what I’m about to say as opposition to this idea in general. However, I will say that I don’t think this would be that big of an activity and interest booster. At the end of the day, the Centrality is largely a NPC organization. The fight that anyone who NPCs it puts up is not going to be very much, not in comparison to PC factions, and most people would assume that the Chiss would win nearly by default.

The only way that it could be a real challenge and a real activity booster, IMO, is if Alliance players were the ones who did the NPCing of the Centrality (save for any elements of the Centrality that are under the control of Sith who are there). Alliance players, while only NPCing Centrality forces, would at least feel like they had a stake in keeping the Centrality neutral. They wouldn't want the Empire's #1 ally having new territory right in their backyard.

Alternatively, the Alliance itself could step in to defend the Centrality. The Chiss and Alliance could be at war for just the purposes of the Centrality, where the Alliance’s only goal is to keep the Chiss out. Think of it like the Persian Gulf War. NATO went to war with Iraq only so far as it kicked Iraq out of Kuwait. It didn’t mean that NATO or the United States had to also then fight a war in Iraq, so they didn’t (not for another 12 years, at least). So that’s how it could work with the Chiss and the Alliance if they wanted to fight over the Centrality. It doesn’t mean that they would then have to fight a general war against each other outside of the Centrality situation. On the other hand, it could lead to that inevitable confrontation anyway.

Those are just two thoughts. I think either one, as an expansion of the idea you came up with, could work.

 

[Black Noise]

Brandon poses a very interesting concept here. We could get some good GA vs Chiss fights here(avoiding too much if all PC death, hopefully in my opinion) and boost activity in both factions if the GA steps in to 'defend' the centrality. In terms of fighting only the centrality and not the GA if the GA stays out would(as Brandon said) not really be that much of a booster. Should still do it regardless of GA stepping in in my opinion(hah) but you get the idea.

So, fighting centrality alone= good idea.
fighting centrality with GA stepping in= excellent idea.
But then another question poses, would Apollo go along with it and assist a faction that is run by a disguised Sith(OOC thinking here, obviously ICly no one knows that Geist Weiss leads the centrality outside of a few select Sith)

 

[Dmitri]

True, I agree with Bac's statements. As for the Skeith Centrality, it's only a major player in the Centrality, not the leader of the Centrality. It's more like a religious/Force sect that's dually a political party in the Centrality.

 

[Black Noise]

True, I agree with Bac's statements. As for the Skeith Centrality, it's only a major player in the Centrality, not the leader of the Centrality. It's more like a religious/Force sect that's dually a political party in the Centrality.

Ah, I see.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

The way to almost guarantee that another faction leader goes along with an idea is to make sure that they’re involved in the brainstorming and planning of this. Right about now, if you guys are settled on the general concept of a GA vs. Chiss war for only the purposes of the Centrality, would be a good time for Weiss to contact Apollo about it and ask for his input. That’s much better for everyone, in terms of both planning and having fun with it, than just saying “Surprise! Go defend these guys.”

 

[Dmitri]

Oh, I plan to, Bac. However, this started off as a rough draft idea, so I wanted to flesh out the idea a little before bringing in Ratler in on the planning. I'll probably post this idea in HOL later.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Sounds good. Just make sure you don't marry yourself to anything you flesh out. Apollo could always bring something unexpected to the table and make you change course on how the general concept is fleshed out.

 

[Dmitri]

True.