My God, It’s Full of Customers

YC114.02.10

This political stuff is not a simple path to navigate, that’s for sure...

FCO has made it official - we’re Faction Warriors!  So far, this hasn’t impacted me much.  I’ve had some new allies pop up on the overview - but we’ve just passed like purple ships in the night.  Certainly no threats yet.  And no new business either - yet!

The strangest thing was the hoops the alliance had to endure to prove our worth to the Federation.  Apparently Col Nardieu’s past work was not exactly official - at least not in any way the authorities are willing to recognize formally.  He and his folks are off running some more publicly-palatable work for the Federation.  They’ve assured us they will return...  It’s interesting - the thorniest branches are the ones that needed pruning to prove FCO’s worth to the Federation.

One wormhole closes, another opens...

Looks like FCO is getting some traction, we’ve had a group apply for membership.  They’ve got some history that makes a few in FCO uncomfortable - at one point some of them apparently had anti-Federal leanings.  This is prompting a discussion among the bosses that raises a few interesting thought with me:

1. Us capsuleers are effectively immortal.  Given a long enough time span, we’re all going to get bored and try many different things.  Those million monkeys banging on a million typewriters got nothing on the variety of things we’re going to produce...
2. Employment history is just that: history.  I mean, look at mine - Advent was closely aligned with Sansha sympathizers.  Hell, Kiruss is aligning extremely closely these days.  By the concerns raised about the new organization, that kind of thinking may have kept me out of FCO.
3. FCO is very open about our policies, thoughts, and goals.  The fact that they’re applying shows me that whatever leanings they may have had in the past, it’s the past.  That’s the great thing about people - they change their minds, and that should be allowed.  (Except on contracts!  You signed it, you live by it!  Kat’s gots ta get paid!)
4. If we reject those who may think differently, then how will we ever have the chance to change their minds, show them the errors of their ways, and sell to them?

Speaking of selling, my first Tornado sold!