1. You're welcome to choose whether or not to retain this disadvantage or not - in setting the requirement would change to Ether Stones which the Empire uses heavily but the Crimson Corsairs have greater difficulty acquiring, which you can also generally play with how you want.
2. You're free to allow characters to use hypnosis on your character! In general, this rule exists to prevent players from having free reign to hypnotize other PCs without explicit permission.
3. The Empire has controlled the world for about a century now, and their war weapons are constantly in use against the Crimson Corsairs or anybody who they label as heretical or traitorous. The Crimson Corsairs provide a convenient target to continue being on constant war-footing and pumping funding into the development of greater weapons, but the Empire constantly feeds upon itself by purging people who don't toe the line.
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2. You're free to allow characters to use hypnosis on your character! In general, this rule exists to prevent players from having free reign to hypnotize other PCs without explicit permission.
3. The Empire has controlled the world for about a century now, and their war weapons are constantly in use against the Crimson Corsairs or anybody who they label as heretical or traitorous. The Crimson Corsairs provide a convenient target to continue being on constant war-footing and pumping funding into the development of greater weapons, but the Empire constantly feeds upon itself by purging people who don't toe the line.