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Let's open up some discussion about the nature of our "pirate alliance".

I think one of the key things to maintain a loose organization, hence I shy from calling what I've had in mind an alliance. We're pirates and we enjoy our freedom, so let's capitalize on that. Yet, being a small outfit, hounded by pirate hunters and so forth does have it's negative points, so cooperation between pirate corps is sure to be beneficial. Any bureacracy or heavy leadership via governance seems needless, except where it may be necessary for effectiveness, but as long as we're so small that communication between members is easy, we can do without it. If need be, we might have a "council of corporations" where one person from each member corp represents its views and where things can be discussed spam free.

The idea is to provide a cooperative that benefits us all, without bringing in the restraint of heavy hierarchy, allowing us to remain as independent operators. Nor do I see why we should forbid any corps from participating in alliances/cooperatives elsewhere as well, at their whim.

Let's discuss the benefits and actual operations in more detail then. The benefits obviously include the simple truth of access to greater amounts of people, which is helpful since we're mostly a bunch of small groups. This way, we can gather stronger forces to counter pirate hunter incursions or form up bigger raiding groups if need be.

The reasons why we've suggested concentrating activities to Oyonata are detailed below:

- Mutual protection. The system will be housing several pirates affiliated with us regularly.

- Ease to organize pirating parties. Just 'round the posse and go on camping/raiding.

- Manufacturing. With the mantle of outlaw status, it's sometimes more difficult to get equipment and it would be helpful to have easy access to a bigger selection and larger stocks.

For the manufacturing side of things, we need to gather a list of blueprints we have access to, so we know who to talk to if somebody needs to manufacture something. We should also discuss going rates. Also, at least we're having our partner manufacturing corp set up shop in Oyonata, to provide basic stuff for sale at there.

We should probably have a separate channel for those peeps interested in this aspect, where they can discuss the going rates, plan future purchases and so forth more efficiently. I don't know how many of our current member corps are into manufacturing at all, or if you use alt-corps or friendly corporations to do your manufacturing for you. If you do use alts/friends (like us), we should probably get them onto the channel as well.

Anyway, talk to Zoral Qu about that, I don't know didley shit about research/manufacturing.

Some other things we could consider, that could actually earn us ISK:

- Extortion. Choose corporation, demand money, bring on the pain until they pay up. You know the drill. Could earn us steady incomes, or at least gives us good reasons to blow up people's stuff. Towards this end we could declare official wars. The "problem" is finding good target corporations which operate in less than 0.5 sec space.

- Mining? I can't stand it personally, and I'm pretty sure we widely share the sentiment, but I guess we could also organize some mining sessions to help us build ships/stuff for ourselves.

If some issues need some guidance to get working properly, I say we appoint someone to do that (like Zoral for organizing the manufacturing side of things). Things that might need that include extortion and mining ops, for example.

That's some of the ideas I've had and I've tossed around with people. Please, if you have any comments on how to make things smoother and/or new things to consider, let me know. Also, let's keep talking on the channel about things, so it's not just for rounding up posses to gank peeps. :)

I'll add to this document any suggestions/ideas that I get (and update the list of member corps, suggested member corps and of blueprints available).

PS. Set standing to +10 for all affiliated corporations so we don't shoot at each other (and the list of affiliated corps is: Venal Rangers, Griefers Guild, Extinction Enterprises, Demons of Oyonata).

PPS. Any other pirate corps that we ought to invite? Send me ideas. Been thinking about sending the invite to Beer and Kebabs since they hang around the area a lot.