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I feel like this post is long overdue and now is finally the time for it to reach the surface.
So many of you know me, My name is Lemmen and I've been here for soon 2 years and I'm currently a Director at AEGIS.
As many of you know around a month ago AEGIS received a contract with the Police Constabulary, link: http://www.altislife.co.uk/topic/52538-aegis-agreement/
This contract was met with a whole lot of criticism from members of the community as you can see in the topic, saying that the police shouldn’t be working with mercenaries, and something with it being against the geneva convention, well the part about it being against the geneva convention isn't exactly right nor is it wrong, however the UN's mercenary convention covers this, It's a treaty from 2001 that prohibits use, training, recruitment and financing of mercenaries. However a lot of countries hasn't ratified this convention, this including both Greece and the UK. However AEGIS is anything but mercenaries, since the real definition of a mercenary is: “A person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is ‘motivated to take part in the hostilities by the desire for private gain’.” with emphasis on Gain. We have no private gain from protecting civilians other than the satisfaction and the knowing we might just have made a new member to this community we all dearly love.
But this contract was voided, none of us really knows the details of it, other than the police were allegedly forced to void it by the Staff team. And I'm not trying to blame anyone, I'm just trying to sort things out as I am clueless of the reasoning behind this.
Maybe you don't know this, maybe you're part of this, but these weak civilians are the most targeted victim of Robberies, often with deadly outcome for the civilian, primarily because they're unarmed and incapable of protecting themselves against a group of say 5 armed rebels who are looking for some easy money. Due to the heavy load on Police from armed rebel conflicts especially on Server 2, the police are not capable of protecting these civilians.
This is where AEGIS comes in, we offer free protection to those who can't protect themselves. To some people it doesn't make sense that we're not charging for our services but the year that AEGIS has been on the server we've never done it for the money, we do it for the satisfaction.
Because when we go out there and protect one civilian doing his copper run, that's maybe one more community member, because currently new players log in, read the rules, get their licenses and get a truck with the 100k they start with. But when they try to make some money by doing a copper run, literally invested the whole 100k they started with depending on their truck and trusty pickaxe to mine some copper, process it and sell it, they get ambushed at the trader, heavily outmanned, heavily outgunned, These people steal all the money the civilian would have earned, they take his truck and I've even heard some people take their clothes and shoot their legs and leave them on the ground, and what do they do then? They log out of the server and go to the next one. We don't want it to happen that way, we want people to play on this server and with AEGIS at their side, they have good protection, and a good introduction to what good RP is, showcasing the high standards our community prides itself in.
AEGIS Will continue to protect civilians with or without a contract, however this contract helped us in the way of getting trust from civilians, and instead of worrying for cops taking our guns we could be out and protect the new players to make them enjoy the game as much as we do! We will always comply with officer and we would even surrender to a cop who's unarmed because killing or harassing cops is not anything that we stand for.
AEGIS Director Lemmen
I haven't made this post in an attempt to make a huge mud throwing competition so please keep it clean.
So many of you know me, My name is Lemmen and I've been here for soon 2 years and I'm currently a Director at AEGIS.
As many of you know around a month ago AEGIS received a contract with the Police Constabulary, link: http://www.altislife.co.uk/topic/52538-aegis-agreement/
This contract was met with a whole lot of criticism from members of the community as you can see in the topic, saying that the police shouldn’t be working with mercenaries, and something with it being against the geneva convention, well the part about it being against the geneva convention isn't exactly right nor is it wrong, however the UN's mercenary convention covers this, It's a treaty from 2001 that prohibits use, training, recruitment and financing of mercenaries. However a lot of countries hasn't ratified this convention, this including both Greece and the UK. However AEGIS is anything but mercenaries, since the real definition of a mercenary is: “A person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is ‘motivated to take part in the hostilities by the desire for private gain’.” with emphasis on Gain. We have no private gain from protecting civilians other than the satisfaction and the knowing we might just have made a new member to this community we all dearly love.
But this contract was voided, none of us really knows the details of it, other than the police were allegedly forced to void it by the Staff team. And I'm not trying to blame anyone, I'm just trying to sort things out as I am clueless of the reasoning behind this.
Maybe you don't know this, maybe you're part of this, but these weak civilians are the most targeted victim of Robberies, often with deadly outcome for the civilian, primarily because they're unarmed and incapable of protecting themselves against a group of say 5 armed rebels who are looking for some easy money. Due to the heavy load on Police from armed rebel conflicts especially on Server 2, the police are not capable of protecting these civilians.
This is where AEGIS comes in, we offer free protection to those who can't protect themselves. To some people it doesn't make sense that we're not charging for our services but the year that AEGIS has been on the server we've never done it for the money, we do it for the satisfaction.
Because when we go out there and protect one civilian doing his copper run, that's maybe one more community member, because currently new players log in, read the rules, get their licenses and get a truck with the 100k they start with. But when they try to make some money by doing a copper run, literally invested the whole 100k they started with depending on their truck and trusty pickaxe to mine some copper, process it and sell it, they get ambushed at the trader, heavily outmanned, heavily outgunned, These people steal all the money the civilian would have earned, they take his truck and I've even heard some people take their clothes and shoot their legs and leave them on the ground, and what do they do then? They log out of the server and go to the next one. We don't want it to happen that way, we want people to play on this server and with AEGIS at their side, they have good protection, and a good introduction to what good RP is, showcasing the high standards our community prides itself in.
AEGIS Will continue to protect civilians with or without a contract, however this contract helped us in the way of getting trust from civilians, and instead of worrying for cops taking our guns we could be out and protect the new players to make them enjoy the game as much as we do! We will always comply with officer and we would even surrender to a cop who's unarmed because killing or harassing cops is not anything that we stand for.
AEGIS Director Lemmen
I haven't made this post in an attempt to make a huge mud throwing competition so please keep it clean.
