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Daistallian Military Options sends the following statement to all Private Military Corporations:

We wish to establish a bonding authority to ensure that all private military corporations (PMCs)
and their client states abide by their contracts. Interested parties please post to this thread.

While not a Private Military Corporation, the Dominion City-based Monolith Insurance Corporation would be most interested in contributing to such a venture.

We would also be interested in establishing an international conference on the laws of armed conflict that would apply to private military companies, non-state military organizations, and related maters.

Dammit wheres Wolf's Dragoons when you need them? :)

OOC: I've always been an Avanti's Angels man myself... Or even just the Kell Hounds.

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In David Drake's Hammer's Slammers universe, the Bonding Authority derived its authority from the fact that the essential monopoly the Authority held over shipping underwriters allowed them to force mercenary organizations and the governments that dealt with them (in whatever sense of the term you choose to interpret that) to obey set rules.

No such power or authority exists in NS, and the consequences for defying the Bonding Authority (completely shutting off all trade with the offending nation/group and thereby causing its economic ruin) cannot be recreated in the game. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it is a fact.

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TEO

Dammit wheres Wolf's Dragoons when you need them? :)
Right here

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In David Drake's Hammer's Slammers universe, the Bonding Authority derived its authority from the fact that the essential monopoly the Authority held over shipping underwriters allowed them to force mercenary organizations and the governments that dealt with them (in whatever sense of the term you choose to interpret that) to obey set rules.

No such power or authority exists in NS, and the consequences for defying the Bonding Authority (completely shutting off all trade with the offending nation/group and thereby causing its economic ruin) cannot be recreated in the game. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it is a fact.

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TEO

Yep. I envision this more to be a for profit organization along the lines of Consumer Reports or the Better Housekeeping Seal of Approval, combined with a bank or insurance bond. Clients can check with the MBA to see if the MBA will vouch for the PMC in question. Clients and PMCs can reassure each other through posting bonds to ensure contractual obligations are carried out.

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Without actual consequences, I don't think it will work, but good luck.

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Without actual consequences, I don't think it will work, but good luck.

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Two consequences: 1) Loss of the MBA seal of approval and 2) loss of the posted bond. Anyway, we*ll try it and if it doesn*t work, no big loss.

Yep. I envision this more to be a for profit organization along the lines of Consumer Reports or the Better Housekeeping Seal of Approval,


Haha..

(on the cover of Better Housekeeping)

Mercenaries: How they are the money-saving way to help you decorate your draperies.

Yep. I envision this more to be a for profit organization along the lines of Consumer Reports or the Better Housekeeping Seal of Approval,


Haha..

(on the cover of Better Housekeeping)

Mercenaries: How they are the money-saving way to help you decorate your draperies.

LOL!

How about Soldier of Better Housekeeping Fortune magazine?

as a "side-effect" it will provide a central place for nations/groups and merc groups to find each other.

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Without actual consequences, I don't think it will work, but good luck.

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Two consequences: 1) Loss of the MBA seal of approval and 2) loss of the posted bond. Anyway, we*ll try it and if it doesn*t work, no big loss.

A suggestion for a third penalty: The customer makes the entire payment in advance... Not to the PMC, but to the MBA. If the client tries to screw the PMC, the PMC gets the full payment, minus, of course, the MBA's commission. If the PMC tries to screw the client, the full payment is returned to the client. Either way, the MBA makes a profit, as if the PMC backs out, then they get to keep the PMC's bond. If the client backs out, then the MBA gets the commission.

the bond should be over and above the contract payment. set the bond at 10% of projected contract costs. both sides sign a check for that amount. the money is held in trust by the mba.

mba keeps 10% of the total bond amount, so 2% of the contract.

upon completion of the contract. the bond is returned to both sides. in the case of a broken contract the bonds go to the agreieved (?) side.

in the case of questionable situations that 10% of contract can be increased.

Can I join?

OOC: Well that is a good methodology...

The other would be a Guild where the offending Party would then have to deal with the 'Guild' but personally I like this methodology...

IC:
We do not provide Merc's but are willing to offer security and montary funds for stock in your endevor.

edit=forgot one of my allies does have a Merc company...

Despite my previous post i do actually think it a good idea.

While IC Crookfur doesn't really do the mercenary thing, we do have a nomber of govenrment approved private security/ military firms whom Crookfur can use to aid others with thier trainign etc (kind of like a regulated version of the british system).