[member="Thurion Heavenshield"]
Hello and thanks for getting back to us!
RL can be a b***. Or is it the faked but oh so wonderful digital life of the internet that is such a ***?
Right, onto bussiness:
I see no problems discussing the idea here, it is after all OOC and it might even help folks understand us better.
The location is OOC wise not the smartest location, true. It is picked out of RP reasons alone around the idea that a hutt powerbase would easiest gain support among the worlds that historicly has deep ties (slave species) to the hutts. With a few exceptions pretty much every world with fun hutt ties lie in that corner of the map. It simply makes sense IC to utilize that aspect of the SW mileu.
The cartel is a mean to an end, and the hutts forming up around it dream bout reestblish the ancient hutt Empire. So in that spect we are agressive but apart from the long term goal to take control over the hutt home world of nal hutta (under RR control) we seek to establish the old classical "hutt space" which is fairly unclaimed atm. Apart from that and the worlds with clear historical ties to the hutts we should not be interested in planets controlled by other factions for some time, war is costly and hurts dont spend money unless they have a really good reason.
About the other factions that could oppose us we naturally see a problem if we get stampeeded right away merely because they can. But we hope that above RP reasons might be one buffert for others to ponder on why they would go through the trouble. I figure that others might hesitate to attack those worlds considering its to most "alien culture" and problematic natural ties with the hutts.
We are not coming in totally unprepare for immidete attacks either.
We have tried to set up a fleet and army as good as we can as a minor faction. The plan is not to start warfare with the neighbouring major factions right away. Rather we aim to dominate a few more planets away from those close fctions, such as the silver jedi and the republic but should it happen we have been setting up diplomatic ties with other major factions to gain their support in an eventual conflict. So the idea is that if one attacks us there will be trouble coming from another direction as well.
Did I touch base with your questions or do you need something else?
/Sempra