Because any attempt of that is immediately shut down by the 5 billion daily sweeps because of the people who have kitchen knives out in display in the slums, and then everyone blames the rebels in general, even if the ones trying to plan something like this arent at fault.
The knife wielders are gang bangers, The outlands is massive there are multiple structures and bases out there bunkers included which you could easily do some form of training the way the MAA Did back in 2021 down there, You could have a class where a rebel teaches a group of recruits how to improvise weapons.
Either people refuse to attend/co-operate or there is no support system for it. Personally I'd do it if the people
WANTED to learn and showed a genuine desire to improve but there are a handful of actual rebels the rest are gangs of psychopaths (you know who you are) Who roam the sewers and slums looking for loyalists and citizens to jump cus they're asshats.
Big take-away here is much like a decaying crackwhore dying on the side of the street you can't
MAKE someone stop their shitty habits and this goes for the rebels too, You can't make them stop fragging each other or snitching on one another you can't stop them from trying to be the main character instead of working as a collective as Ironic as it may sound if the resistance stopped being a bunch of Tumblr users who HAD to be
INDIVIDUALISTIC and worked together to train then plan and execute if they had a
CHAIN OF COMMAND even a de-centralized one, We could see a completely different rebellion one on-par with the admin event factions seen on SS.
Mao's Army, FARC, The Vietcong, The Taliban, The American Patriots, The Forest brothers, The Irish republican army, The Mujahedeen undoubtedly had people in their ranks they didn't like or disagreed with but they put aside their individualism and fought against common enemies working as a collective Instead of trying to attack things as individuals.
I might be talking to a fucking wall at this point but...this is my suggestion to the rebels.
-Set your individualism aside. - No more of this trying to turn your guns on each other, If someone does that regardless of their motives they should have their ass beaten and restrained and either put in some holding cell or dealt with by a trial. Mental instability is a liability and you don't want that sort of thing running rampant.
-Elect leadership, I'd recommend (PF/Broker for example)- Have them outline a goal and an endgame plan for when or if their uprising is successful.
-Secure an Outlands base as your Operations/Command Post. -CP. (This should be highly secretive) -You can blindfold people to bring them there to avoid shit
-Begin training, -Teaching characters how to create explosives maintain their weapons, Setting ambushes capturing/assaulting enemy positions and laying traps can be invaluable for guerilla's and right now the rebels have access to the country-side which is a guerilla's wet dream. Whether you fancy yourself a simple guerilla force or a paramilitary group
TRAINING is vital to maintaining group discipline, skills and disseminating knowledge which even kliener stated is humanities most potent weapon.
-Make your attacks mean something- No more attacking the RDC or attacking innocent loyalists/civilians without dire reasoning, The civilian population is the last group a guerilla/rebel should ever fuck with as they are the group you NEED to win over for a successful revolt without the hearts and minds of the people you're not going to get anything, These asshole moves like shooting up businesses and robbing loyalists and standing idly by while gangsters do this MUST Stop, You need to take an image as hero's as martyrs not as blood thirsty terrorists ready to use violence against political adversaries.
-Capture/Interrogation- This goes hand in with training but it can't be understated how important it is to gather intelligence it can mean the difference in knowing whether that new guy in your group is an OSI plant and the CPs are enroute via APCs to raid you or if you're going to miss a big shipment of weapons and food coming in on Tuesday that you can plan an ambush for.
-Stop being afraid to fight- So you're a rebel? You're geared head to toe in body armor maybe you have a rifle or SMG, Well so is your enemy I've noticed a lot of rebels chicken out at the idea that they're going to die, There's a saying about artillery where if that shell is going to hit you it's going to hit you, Meaning if you're going to die you're going to die You're here geared and fighting because your character refused to be a slave or has somehow found themselves choosing armed struggle against the combine, Be the guy that CP i3 Geared up to go fight, Be the enemy that your enemy is kitted to kill.
-As for the argument of CPs/OTA Being around every corner- Train your fighters in the outlands to set up recon posts have a radio network setup to where those on the ground alert a post commander monitoring the radio and relay that information to other people on the ground, You can cover more ground then you think even if your "Post" is some tree house and you're some low geared guy with tree branches taped to his clothes with binoculars and a radio, You can make that difference.
NOTE TO STAFF:
(I think more lenient PK policies (more NLR for S2K Deaths) would make rebels alot less cowardly) (On servers like TNB rebels S2K/S2RP all the time and it's not always a PK, People take more risks if they know their character wont be wasted on an assault, same should go for other factions like CPs. They get a de-rank so why shouldn't that rebel whose gonna lose all his gear get an NLR? I know if I had a very developed character with tons of connections I'd rather keep them take an NLR in a fire-fight with CPs and have the consequence be losing my gear and if it happens agian its a PK)
