For too long piracy has run unchecked in Sirius. Our noble Police forces, stretched too thin and realatively unaided, have not been able to cope with this threat. Although the actions of these pirate scum do not always directly effect any one system, it has been seen that every wreched act eventualy trickles down to us all.
We come from many different factions, some NOMAD hunters, some former Police Officers, some Freelancers. We come from all over Sirius and beyond. We come for this reason, the EXTERMINATION of vile pirates and terrorists.
We do not mean to come into your systems and enforce our rule. The people we hunt are enemies of ALL of Sirius. If you have a problem, call on us, we WILL respond! Other Navy's and Police forces may feel free to approach our leadership with request for help or alliance. We will assist you. But please understand, known pirates will be hunted, even in your systems.
Our ranks are stocked with some of the best dogfighters in Sirius, and we are motivated.
We are VIPERS!
History:
All too soon after humans arrived in Sirius some people returned to their wicked ways. Having just barely set up functioning governments, the four Great Houses found themselves fighting a battle as old as humanity. Smuggling, piracy, and terrorism seemed to be the only way some knew how to live.
In the early days, House Navy ans Police forces fought bravely, but eventually found themselves unable to stem the criminal tide. In Liberty, the first anti pirate specialist force, The Liberty Blue Dragons, was formed from the LSF and Liberty police. With special training and equipment, they were very effective in enforcing the laws. After a short time, political climates changed. Funding was cut for the LBD and diverted towards welfare programs. This failed attempt to stop criminals before they started, was met with great disdain by officials in the Liberty Navy.
At first secretly, members of the LBD were commisioned by the Navy. They were tasked with starting a military based Special force. In time the citizens of Liberty came to know them as the Liberty VIPERs. An extremely elite group, they used only the finest equipment from all of the houses. Infact, many of the other houses enlisted the VIPERs support for their own problems. Even after the start of the House wars the VIPERs continued their anti criminal work, managing for a short time to stay out of the petty fighting. Unfortunately, the die was cast and the VIPER forces were redistributed to regular military units.
Hundreds of years past. With all of the fighting many of the worst criminals had retreated to the Border Worlds and beyond. The Four houses had become almost complacent in their support of their police forces. Instead, filled with paranoia of the other Houses, they chose to funnel money into their Navy's. However, with threat of NOMAD invasion, o group of ex-military and Navy pilots got together for the hunt. The Asgard Security Force roamed all of Asgard fighting the blue hoard. If that was not enough, some in the ASF also felt the need to assist with anti pirate work. The Liberty Navy, seeing this, Felt the time was right to open enlistment for their own anti pirate force. Many of the ASF split off and became the first officers of this new force. They chose an honored name from the past for their identity, the Liberty VIPERs were ressurected.
For some time this force bravely all in liberty who chose to break the law. Even with much turmoil and occasional "official" disbandments the Liberty VIPERs kept together as a strong knit group. Their success in battle against pirate and terrorist groups was unmatched in any of the other houses.
In secretive talks, high ranking officers in ALL of the house Navys and Police forces agreed to allow their best pilots to volunteer for VIPER service. And to support them they chose to supply moneys and equipment from covert accounts and caches with or without the consent of their governments. In becoming a multi system group, the VIPER leadership elected for one more last name change............. The Sirius VIPERs
Role play idea:
The VIPERs RP is that of a semi secretive, loosely affiliated, multi-military task force. Along with patroling many of the Houses systems hunting pirates, terrorists, and even sometimes smugglers, we also sometimes function as an arm of some of the house Navys. There is nothing a VIPER pilot loves more than being the first units into the center of a battle. Thus allowing the regular Navy forces more flexibility in their deployment.
We are not directly controlled by any one governments military, but due to our history, our main allegience is to New Liberty. Due to this, and their central nature, we tend to choose our bases in Liberty's systems. We also tend to use Liberty's equipment as our standard.
We will come to the aid of ANY lawfull force on their request. We also conduct our own patrols and campaigns with or without their knowledge or approval. This fact can sometimes cause friction between ourselves and the other lawfull groups. We tend to be cavalier in out attitudes and actions and do not hold much respect for formalities, but in the end we do maintain our respect for the laws of all systems and will conduct ourselves as such. One thing will be certain for all criminals and criminal factions, "If you fight one VIPER, you fight all the VIPERS!"
RP allegiences:
House militarys and governments will most likely have varying oppinions of our presence and actions. It's hard to say at this time what these will be. Using the NPC governing bodies as a guide it might look something like this..........
New Liberty: Loves us and recognizes us as a covert unit of the Liberty Navy. Kind of like the US Delta Force. Liberty's government tends to trivialize and overlook the involvment of other houses in the VIPERs.
Bretonia: Bretonia's government and military looks at us as the special multi national type task force we are. We are looked uppon as a joint effort between the Bretonian and Liberty governments.
Rheinland: Rheinland's government is basically unaware of our affiliations. We are not officially supported by the Rheinland military. Secretively however, we derive funding, equipment, and pilots. The military high command is well aware of us and very supportive.
Kusari: The Kusari government views our group an an annoying drain on their honor. They feel that they have no need for such a group to operate in any of their systems. They try to hamper our movements whenever possible. While there is some support coming to us from the Kusari military, it is frowned uppon by the rank and file. It is generally thought to be dishonorable to encourage an outside force to patrol Kusari space. We do however get support from a few very secrative high ranking officials. We are looked uppon as Vigilantes.
NPC Criminal groups: We hunt and kill them. We do not have any alliance with them whatsoever.
Player Factions:
As far as any player factions that adopt the governments of the House systems, we hope to work with you in any way we can. Time and experience will determine how our relations go. We have no intentions of invading, userping, or otherwise taking over the governing of any house systems.
Any other lawfull player factions may also request our support or assistance. We will make every effort to help.
For criminal player factions, beware. We will give you no quarter.
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