Factions

[FutureSojourner]

The MV was always considered a Honorable Merc's, while the SOA was a Dark Sider that supported both Bandits and Pirates and had strong ties to the Brotherhood (MOB).  You might also classify them a Evil faction as well.

I strongly disagree with you Davin, the Evil factions have just as much of a place in the game as the Good factions. I guess you can make many factions Evil and thus make them all NPC, I guess then you will have the following then:

See my comments about "organized evil" elsewhere.

I always felt like the MV was reasonably honorable, too.  The world needs hire-able soldiers, at least, to fight for various causes (assuming the soldiers feel a cause is worth fighting for).

I thought the SOA wasn't a very "good" group, too, and sounds like just the place for thieves, assassins, spies, etc.  If there are mercenary groups that fight solely for money without considering the morality of the employer's goals, then perhaps they would best fit here too, don't you think?

The first faction I joined, back in 1986, was MercVerk -- the Senior #1 back then was Cletus Graham and Contract Coordinator was Hal Mayne (played by Jim Early).  They produced two booklets - The Code and The Book.  I believe I still have them in long term storage.  They were very honorable, well organized, and extremely well run.