Initiation and Penance

The Moose Legion gains members through two primary ways: initiation, and penance. An overview of Moose Legion organization can be found here.

Initiation
The vast majorty of the Moose Legion consists of voluntary members, called initiates. The legion will periodically engage in large "marketing" campaigns, often coninsiding with large trade missions, with certain crews relegated to the task of spreading knowledge on the legion to the local populace, and searching for possible initiation candidates.

Once a candidate approaches the legion, an agent is given the task of evaluation. Evaluations are very informal, usually consisting of engaging in conversation, checking a few background documents, and examining whatever skills they advertise. If the candidate is deemed acceptable, they are inducted into the legion. They are given a new callsign stylaized in legion fashion, and either join an existing crew, or continue to work alone.

Penatants
The Moose Legion engages in piracy from time to time. When it does, selected targets are often not chosen for their cargo, but rather for what are deemed crimes by legion standards. Upon taking a ship, survivers are given two options: be killed, or do penance.

Penance is a sort of supervsed work detail, maintaining systems, janitorial work, and basic repairs are all part of it. Penatants are given accomodations of similar quality to the rest of the crew, and are not seperated out into a brig or other space. While not given the appropriate passwords to access control of the ship, they are for the most part encouraged to maintain good relationships with the rest of the crew.

After a predetermined length of time, usually between 2-3 years, penatants are allowed to go free, or enter the initiation process. A surprisingly high number choose to do so, roughly a third at the time of writing.

Penance is also used as a form of punishment for serious but forgivable crimes. For more serious infringements, imprisonment, execution, or torture are known punishments.