"Because of a recent disagrement between certain companies: the UIT has been slightly shattered and the Corvus and two other companies have become independant. All current UIT players now have the choice to become one of those independant companies or become of Corvus race. The UIT has tightened its security and has put KOS laws on all Corvus and independant companies."

Does this idea sound good or is it utter garbage. I realise that this idea is very open ended so I am open to sugestions.

~Cpt. Overkill~

Nice idea, just some things:

Corvus is not a Corp, but a pirate organization, and as such, no part of the UIT. I recommend you head over to the Design Wiki to read up; it explains a lot, including why the Union suffers Corvus to live.

However, reading said wiki you will find some Corps have indeed bad blood between them and actually started what was known as the Corporate Wars; these corps were Valent and Axia. So you COULD say these two start fighting all over again and broke away from the armistice imposed on them by the Senate and TPG (and called, unoficially, the TPG Armistice).

Also, all those greyspace Corps that have no presence within Union (gold) space (collectively known, again unoficially, as the Seceded[sp?] Corps) left Union space coz they don't like to listen to the Senate; these corps could start a revolt, too.

Such an event (or mission, or whatever) would give UIT fighters something to do besides pandering to them Serco and Itani sissies, as well as a chance for UIT to blast UIT sans the need for an official duel. Me like.

Well one of the real reasons that I posted this idea was because I was noticing that a large percentage of people were beginning to all be UIT so the idea of Corvus being an active nation you could physicaly join sparked my emagination.
That was my real thought but then I got carried away and came up with the Civil War which is still a bit cloudy.

Cpt. Overkill

an idea came to me while reading this post.
don't flame me for suggesting new guilds...
but if a guild were to take on the name of say...Axia, then they would have a faction to stand behind.
The pirates could be considered in a Corvus Guild.
etc, etc.

But I know we don't need more guilds...
so ignore me...

I'd just like the ability to be an "Ineubis" faction pilot or an "Itani" faction pilot or a "Corvus" faction pilot. You could never change, and let's say that n00bs could only choose UIT, Itani, or Serco as their primary character. Once you had played the game and got your primary character to like 4/4/4/4/4 and experienced the game, other character faction options open up to your account...

I actually really like that idea, LeberMac. It would be interesting if additional character creation options were open to an account after it had at least one character with certain levels. Having additional factions to choose from would fit quite well. Then that would increase the variation in character levels, even though the player base is still relatively small.