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Originally posted by Skyblade:
1 - The Aliens are an Empire, they are Imperialistic. In other words, they destroy everyone.

First of all, there is a difference between "Imperialistic" and "Xenophobic." We don't kill everything. Heck, we might even ally with the Dreden. Rome was an Empire. did they kill everything?

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Originally posted by Skyblade:
The Aliens have a bitter hatred towards the humans, especially considering their loss of the Great War. The pirates are human outlaws, and are therefore likely to be treated exactly like that of the Human Confederation.

Wrong. We hold no grudge against the pirates. We hold a grudge against the Feds. Look at the EV StartScript, you'll see what I mean. The Alliens do know about the HC. Remeber the Alien Cruiser Mission?

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Originally posted by Skyblade:
2 - How do you know exactly where the Aliens are...

You do, why shouldn't they?

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Originally posted by Skyblade:
...how would your fighter have the fuel to reach...

It's only one jump.

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Originally posted by Skyblade:
We allowed the pirates to join BFS III with the idea in mind that everyone is against them (and is why I keep saying the pirates won't last long).

So, in "short," you let them come in as your punching bag?

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Originally posted by Skyblade:
3 - The Dreden and Human Confederation are only expected to become allies since they are both human governments, fighting a common enemy. Therefore, this is not a double-standard on the issue regarding Alien and Pirate peace terms.

The Dredens don't know the HC exist. They left because they didn't want to get invovlved in a war, and then we captured them. Heck, they were a bunch of Bulk Freighters chock full 'a slaves, how could we resist?

Seriously, the Pirate:Alien Alliance is a possible threat to the HC/Dreden, and a very real one.

Yes, but I think Skyblade's point is that the Aliens shouldn't know about the pirates until they meet in the same system. The pirates, during the great war, probably fought against the pirates, but didn't really help the Feds in their own battles. That is, they waged their own, and the aliens considered them feds.

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No, actually, the pirates (being the brillinat, clever industrialists that they are) took advantage of the situstion and raided the Govmt. Ships. They only went to killing off merchants after the Government told the common citizen that the Renegades were "Evil, revolting people who aren't above pirating the general populace!" Of course, none of that was true, especially (sp) the last part, but the media liked the catchphrase and "Pirates" just sorta stuck. We, at the AE, value that kind of courage and perseverance, so we hope to ally with them.

One last thing: You said we didn't know about the pirates, but we did. Remeber that Alien Cruiser? Who do you think sent it? :mad:

Heh, kudos to Cyber-Dragon. Seriously, Skyblade, the pirates are a legitimate government and aren't just in as a punching bag. We proved that in BFSII with vastly inferior ships. We'll prove it again if we have to.
Now, I do have to refute the idea that the alien cruiser was ours. However, it did come on a diplomatic mission to us. The slight conflict between us in BFSII was due to a misunderstanding about who killed the cruiser. But a pirate ship managed to communicate the results of our meetings to the aliens thus setting up the alliance.g

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