OI!
Wait a sec here.
Ria WAS on board the Sky Ray. I can be flexible.
HOWEVER!
There was only one buggy involved. Any others would come to help out a buggy in trouble, with their own buggies. Ria, however, would not hesitate to blow a captured buggy into small pieces of scrap metal.
ALSO!
Ria IS a great pirate, but no pirate in their right mind would make themselves sound like a magic girl from a cheesy anime. How did she go from a calm, gun-crazed captain of a Land Cruiser to a MAGICAL GIRL?!?
I do not see her declaring her name to petty thieves.
Hmm, sorry, her profile just said she was 'easygoing'. *shrugs* I can change that a little, but I couldn't think of any plot devices to introduce her name. The presumption I was working with was that pirates aren't usually in a right mind to begin with and with their great freedom comes great arrogance.
I didn't see a specification regarding the number of buggies, but one extra isn't too bad, right? Ria did try to blow up the stolen buggy...but failed as a certain android maid got in the way of her buggy...
Also, I always try to feature named characters whenever possible. Thus why I brought in Ria. I want her to encounter team Gensokyo, get interested in them, and at some point get involved. I'm trying to introduce plot devices to prevent any more diffuse storylines.
Again, please, avoid diffuse storylines. The pirates are too autonomous, i.e. their storyline is too removed from ours. link them up with RAI Force or Team Gensokyo if you want to keep them in the story.
Also, how did the pirates come into being? I was working with the assumption that they were RAI Force renegades, but it's rapidly becoming clear to me that that isn't the case. How on earth did a band of pirates sprout out in the middle of Japan? Think up a plausible backstory.
I'm still rejecting the wasteland.
And a sleepy little rural town may have yakuza, may have rival inns, but I somehow doubt it would have a batallion of tanks. Rika's tank is plausible because it's Rika. Other tanks....not so much. Please provide a good explanation.