Thing is, one, you already have shown in multiple occassions to be using R&L to your benefit when you get down to being blunt about it. And it goes vice versa with Cale towards R&L. Two, you have plenty of ships already, more than any other pirate faction in the RP, which is what you are toting the Ebon Fist as being, although terrorist would be more appropriate at this point as besides from attempting to hijack your own ships from Baltimn, you haven't really done any actually pirating...since Corellia I believe, although I could mistaken in that regard. Three, we've had members in the past say that they won't use this seperate fleet in support of their main faction or that it won't be permanent...and yet a month or two later, there they are, supporting themselves, and it sticks around until someone finally destroys it. It is something we are trying to curtail at this point in the RP, as it would hold more quality to the RP to not see that kind of thing happening...to me it's the same for attacking a player for OOC reasons, or telling management during private conversation that you've killed a certain character, and yet they pop right back up in the RP and when asked, they say it is in fact the same character or the same character that was said to be dead but under a different name. If you want to use our designs so bad, I would honestly suggest trading out the current Ebon Fist fleet for R&L designs, once they show successful and profitable operations.

second: i suppose i'll air out the idea here. i was planning on assaulting cato neimoidia for purposes left unmentioned at the moment. whether or not malcom cross could be considered an ally is something i cannot say at this time, but the likelihood of encountering superior numbers and in all honesty, the kruus (which has the advantage in weaponry and size) is quite high and simply put, large fleet or not, the best the fist could hope for is a strategic retreat with high losses.

the r&l vessels are a field evener against the kruus. statistically speaking, with cato neimoidia guarded as it is likely to be, i expect to loose the full fleet. any leftover vessels would be returned to r&l enterprises.

for r&l, it represents a slap in the face to mirkovig and his designers who produced shoddy knockoffs that gave r&l a bad name, which resulted in their products being pulled from the galaxy. as such, a direct field demonstration would run counter to the current word.

request instead to sell off the six razor fighters in exchange for three kraken fighters.