After much decision, Comandantes Alfa has come to its verdict. While we do appreciate your desire to join our efforts, we cannot accept you into our ranks just yet. However, if you can set yourself apart from the others to us, we may reconsider. For now, due to these reasons, we are forced to Deny your application.
Story/Biography: Born and Raised into a Military Family in Malta on AS 812 . Daughter to both Lifelong High Ranking Outcast Military Officers. By AS 824 My Mother Taught me how to fly an Outcast Dagger LF and I fell in love with flying and dreamt of going to the stars one day. By AS 828 After My Educational Journey I joined the Outcast Military and Graduated with Excellent Remarks and was the Top of my Class in the Maltese Military Academy. By AS 830 I was Promoted to Lieutenant Commander and have my own Fighter Squadrons at my Command and we were tasked to Patrol the Trade Routes to and from Tau 37 and Tau 31 also escorting Our Cardamine Transport Ships to their intended destinations and also putting down a Bretonian Armed Forces Gunboat Patrol that was about to ambush a Convoy that was one jump away from CALI and we responded in time saving countless lives and reporting no casualties. By AS 831 I was put in Command of the Security of a Scientific Research Team that would also benefit our Technological Advances for future generations it was a success and I also was deployed in the Defense of Malta to assist ground forces during the Rebel Uprising with the use of careful Planetside Strategic Orbital Bombardment.
Why do you want to join us?: To Provide Security and also to seek out new Alliances that will benefit not only our faction and influence but to contribute to scientific advancements that will provide us with the means to advance and give cutting edge weaponry and tactical superiority over our enemies and safeguard the Maltese People and her Allies.
What does Cardamine mean to you?: Cardamine is not only a drug but it is a medicine and the way of life and the economic lifeblood of our people and by the stars I will defend the orange dream and safeguard it with my life!
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Fighters/Bombers or Capital Vessels?: Tridente (OC Gunboat) , Rapier (VHF)
Timezone: 8+ GMT Hong Kong Standard time (South East Asian)
It is good to hear of your climbing of the ranks, and your progression through Maltese society. After reviewing your application, Comandantes Alfa has come to a decision. Bianca Bautista, you have been Accepted into the Maltese Hyperspace Starfleet. Report to the Starfleet Headquarters for your first assignment.
Born and raised in the heart of Planet Malta, amidst the glowing fields of Cardamine blooms, I have always felt a deep connection to our home and its orange-tinted skies. From a young age, I was drawn to the stories of our people, the Outcasts, and their struggle for freedom against the forces that threaten Malta's existence. My parents instilled in me a sense of pride in our heritage and a determination to fight for our rights. Trained in the ways of combat and survival by veteran Outcast fighters, I grew up with a strong sense of duty to protect our way of life.
As I came of age, I delved into the secrets of Cardamine, studying its effects on both body and mind. Witnessing firsthand the power it wielded over our people, I became convinced of its potential to shape the future of civilization. With each inhalation of the orange haze, I felt a surge of energy and clarity, driving me to push the boundaries of what was thought possible.
Now, as I stand on the brink of adulthood, I yearn to join the ranks of the Malta Hyperspace Starfleet, to lend my skills and knowledge to our cause.
Why do you want to join us?: The Outcasts are my family, my people. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my fellow brothers and sisters, fighting for our freedom and the right to determine our own destiny. The Malta Hyperspace Starfleet represents the embodiment of our hopes and aspirations, and I am eager to do my part in ensuring our continued survival and prosperity.
What does Cardamine mean to you?: Cardamine is more than just a drug or a commodity – it is the lifeblood of our faction, the fuel that drives us forward in our struggle against tyranny. It symbolizes our resilience, our strength, and our unwavering determination to carve out our place in the universe. Cardamine is the future of the human race, they just don't know it yet.
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Fighters/Bombers or Capital Vessels?: Currently Storta and bomber, but still experimenting with ships loadouts etc
Your values and goals are an excellent reflection of our own, and you certainly have a great talent to express it. We will be glad to have you here. Dario Pagnotto, you have been Accepted into the Maltese Hyperspace Starfleet. Report to the Starfleet Headquarters for your first assignment.
Story/Biography: Ramirez's early life was steeped in the traditions of the Outcasts. From a young age, he was taught the importance of loyalty to the family and the faction, as well as the skills necessary for survival in the perilous environment of space. His education was a mix of academic learning and practical training, focusing on spacecraft piloting, combat, and the intricate process of Cardamine cultivation. The drug, which prolongs the life of its users but also makes them dependent, is seen by the Outcasts as a sacred gift and the basis of their economy.
Ramirez quickly showed an aptitude for piloting and navigation, joining the ranks of the Outcasts' spacefaring warriors. He became involved in defending Outcast territory against encroachments by rival factions and in the smuggling operations that distributed Cardamine across the Sirius sector. His daring exploits and navigational prowess earned him respect and notoriety among his peers.
Like many Outcasts, Ramirez harbors a deep resentment towards the houses of Sirius, who see the Outcasts as criminals and smugglers. He is motivated by a desire to secure a future for his people and to prove that the Outcasts are more than the pirates and drug dealers they are often portrayed as. Ramirez is also driven by a personal quest to explore the origins of the Hispania and the history of his people, hoping to find a way to break the cycle of isolation and conflict that has defined the Outcasts' existence.
Why do you want to join us?: The decision to join the HS isn't merely a choice—it's a continuation of his heritage and a commitment to the values and struggles of his people. For Ramirez, joining the HS is an act of loyalty to his family and to the generations that came before him. It's a way to honor the sacrifices made by the Outcasts who navigated through adversity since the days of the Hispania. This deep sense of belonging and responsibility to his heritage is a powerful motivator. Also, The HS are in a constant battle to protect their home and way of life from external threats. By joining their ranks, Ramirez contributes to the defense of Malta and the preservation of the Outcast culture. This includes safeguarding the secrets of Cardamine cultivation and ensuring the survival of his people.
What does Cardamine mean to you?: Cardamine is the spice which extends existence and enhances our abilites. With it, we crossed the stars, got closer to K'vash's minds and bright intellect, reflecting their light on all who wish to acquire wisdom from ages hidden in mystery and wonderment, rule over pirates, and soon impose our domain over all sirius.
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Fighters/Bombers or Capital Vessels?: Capital Ships, Cruisers and Battleships
While your goals, desires and abilities link up with ours, we have not yet fought alongside each other, and we have yet to find you assisting our forces. Due to this, we are unable to verify your pursuits. However, if you manage to distinguish yourself, we will be quick to reconsider. Until then, we will have to Deny your application for now.
Story/Biography: Born an orphan on Malta fifty-five years ago (779 A.S.), Corvo's early years were spent stalking the streets of Porto d'Anzio looking for easy marks among the Freelancers and Smugglers that came to Malta for Cardamine. Some of the off-worlders could barely stand after their first hit, and this made snatching creds literal childs' play. When Corvo was thirteen years old, he crossed paths with the late Don Matteo Gotti after making the mistake of trying to pinch some creds off of the Don. Rather than discipline the boy, Don Gotti saw potential and took him in, raising him like a son. From this great man, Corvo learned of the great Orange Dream and the importance of the Cardamine trade. Finally, he had a family and a glorious purpose. Over the next few years, Corvo would serve the Gotti family as a cardamine runner on and off world, eventually earning himself his own Sabre which he put to use escorting newer runners and putting down Corsair dogs.
In 800 A.S. while overseeing cardamine operations on Malta for the Gotti family, Corvo received word that Don Matteo Gotti had been captured by Liberty authorities and was being quietly transferred to Cryer Pharmaceuticals. After using the family's connections to pull a few strings, Corvo learned Matteo was being held at a remote research facility in Sigma-17 along with several other sons of Malta. With the help of the best Sabre pilots from the cartels connected to the Gotti family, Corvo travelled to Sigma-17 only to find the research facility already under attack by the enigmatic Order. The leader of the attack claimed Cryer Pharmaceuticals was working with the Nomads and conducting experiments on Maltese in an attempt to synthesize cardamine. The Gotti family and the Order forces agreed to storm the facility together, rescue the Outcast captives and discover the Nomads' plans. During the ensuing firefight, a tank of refined liquid cardamine was shot and exploded, catching Corvo in the blast. The blast severely damaged the left side of his face and left eye, dosing the tissue with pure cardamine, blackening the tissue and making his left pupil glow a fiery orange like the skies of Malta. With the captives rescued, the Order destroyed the base and vanished using their cloaking devices.
Over the next 34 years, the Gotti family struggled to maintain financial stability as Matteo Gotti succumbed to his treatment at the hands of Cryer Pharmaceuticals and the Nomads, requiring more and more purer and purer cardamine just to get out of bed. In 827 A.S. Don Matteo Gotti passed away, leaving the Gotti family legacy to Corvo who has spent his time rebuilding the family's financial stability despite his own need for regular pure cardamine injections.
Why do you want to join us?: To spread Cardamine to every corner of the sector and beyond, and to work closely with the best scientists and pilots of Starfleet to that end. I myself do not revere the Spirits, as my personal interactions with them in my youth left more than a few scars. However, I have begun to see.. visions.. and hear dissonant whispers I cannot ignore. I believe in the power of Cardamine. Not only as a means for us to control the Houses, but to communicate with the Nomads and develop new technology.
What does Cardamine mean to you?: In a word: Everything. Cardamine is the blood of our people, but it also gave this once orphan boy a future.
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Fighters/Bombers or Capital Vessels?: Capital Vessels. I currently fly a "Peregrine" frigate and enjoy it, but look forward to flying something larger. I prefer capital ship gameplay over dogfighting.
Your past experiences are regrettable, however, all can be mended with time. You will find your curious mind in good company, and your story and encounters may prove advantageous to Malta. After reviewing your application, Comandantes Alfa has come to a decision. Corvo Gotti, you have been Accepted into the Maltese Hyperspace Starfleet. Report to the Starfleet Headquarters for your first assignment.
Sender:Xenia Gomez Report:Application to the Maltese Hyperspace Starfleet Stardate:29.05.834
Name:Xenia Gomez
Story/Biography:Buenos días.
Well I will get started with my parents. Simply put they were slaves. They were both Bretonian's, captured when the transport they were on was intercepted by Outcast raiders in the Magellan system. They were returning from Liberty space having attended a commodity trading conference. The captain of the transport could not pay the necessary fee the Outcasts had demanded for their safe passage. The transport was boarded and the crew gunned down.
My parents were bought at a slave auction held on Malta by Dom Vincenzo Bartoli. An eccentric Maltese man who owned a small but not insignificant cardimine plantation on Malta. He had no children, likely an effect of the decades of cardimine exposure.
Years past and eventually my parents accepted their new life. It was harsh and hard. Dom Bartoli was not a kind man and worked his slaves hard. But if you worked life was simply easier. Bearable maybe. When it came to the woman that Dom Bartoli owned, cardimine harvesting wasn't their only job. Dom Bartoli would present the most beautiful of his slaves as evening gifts to high profile guests and clientele and my mother being one of these consort women, fell pregnant.
I was born on 17 September 812AS. My father accepted me as his own, even if I was the product of my mother having spent the night with some unknown wealthy Maltese man. When I was old enough I was put to work in the cardimine fields. Years past and whispers of rebellion and revolt started to spread amongst the slaves. But the years past and nothing became of these whispers. As I grew older it was clear that I had inherited my mothers beauty and my unknown biological fathers olive skin and features. After my 15th birthday the now aging Dom Bartoli started to take shall we say, special interest in me. I did not enjoy my time with the Dom. It was neither enjoyable or glamorous. Over time the Dom spent more time with me. Having me visit him more often, more regularly than other slave girls. After a time I was his favored consort. The only one he would see. I got treated favorably amongst the other slave girls. I no longer had to cut my hands harvesting razor sharp cardimine. I was gifted beautiful clothes and jewelry. He would have me travel with him whenever he went off world.
His small cartel grew during the early 820s gaining influence. Not large enough to gain any power or favor with the Council of Don's and later the National Council of Malta, but large enough to have their own network of smugglers and pirates between Alpha and Liberty, and the strength and forces to resist take over from other Doms and cartels. In 828AS Dom Bartoli started to teach me to fly. Paranoid in his old age he would not let anyone one else fly when he needed to travel, but it was clear he was starting to struggle to manipulate the controls of ships as he aged. I learnt basic fighter maneuvering and other combat skills from Bartoli cartel raiders. I became the personal pilot of Vincenzo Bartoli as soon as I had mastered flying.
My mother had died in 823AS, aged 47, from an underlying auto-immune disease.
The years wore on and talk of rebellion amongst the slaves continued to grow. Slaves were starting to resist and defy their masters. But they were promptly punished or executed. My father driven mad with grief from the death of my mother, snapped during one such uprising in 828 and attacked his handler. He was badly beaten and succumbed to his injuries shortly afterwards.
Dom Bartoli although old and paranoid was a smart man and could sense that open revolt and rebellion amongst the slaves was looming on the horizon. He wasn't to know that the uprisings in 831 would be successful. But I think, maybe as a way of trying to protect me from getting executed and tortured by either jealous slaves, that had grown envious of my status with the Dom, or from Outcast enforcers who killed salves indiscriminately during uprisings, wrote into his will that I was to be freed from slavery, granted a small inheritance and a small cabin on the Bartoli estates. I was also granted protection by the Bartoli cartel. Dom Vincenzo Bartoli died in 830AS. He wrote in his final will and testament that I had shown him the only kindness he had ever truly known.
In 831AS I bought a used Stiletto and started regularly raiding Liberty space and smuggling cardimine during my raids.
One might think that I would have no love for Malta or the Outcast way of life, considering what had happened to my parents and to me, being a consort of a decrepit old man. However although I loved my parents, that was their life. And this is mine. I have managed to build something for myself out of nothing. I have a ship, a small piece of land on the Bartoli estate and I am respected amongst a few of the Bartoli cartel members for my loyal service to the Dom.
Although not Outcast by blood, I am Outcast in spirit. Just as the Maltese have created a life for themselves out of nothing, in defiance of the odds and those who would destroy them, I have created my life from nothing, in defiance of my slave past and I will continue to build my life, my empire. I will grow in defiance of pure bred Outcasts who would try to pull me down, an ex-slave girl barely human in their eyes. I will grow in defiance of the other colony's that have abandoned Malta and wish her people burn.
Why do you want to join us?:Malta is my home. Troubled past or not. During cardimine runs I have encountered many hostile towards me. Wishing death to me and other Outcasts. It is clear that our future is at risk if the likes of the Corsair's or colony governments have their way. I will protect the Orange Dream, and through that I will expand my own life, my own sphere of influence. My own empire!
What does Cardamine mean to you?:It is life. Simple as that. We are dependent on it. Not just genetically but economically as well. The Bartoli Cartel has taken a hit from the slave rebellion, fields burned and destroyed. It is clear that other criminal activities such as piracy is not enough to sustain the Maltese way of life. In order for Maltese life to flourish so must cardimine. The Dream must flow.
Additional Justification: Yesterday 28/05/834AS I escorted a cardimine convoy to Ontario. The small convoy consisted of my Stiletto, Parrot.of.Achilies, HS>La.Volpe and a rogue ship called MeisterHaku. During the return trip carrying counterfeit electronics we were intercepted by Auxasian ships. Conflict ensued and I did the best I could to defend Parrot that was immediately set apon by no fewer than 5 of the Auxasian ships. Parrot was destroyed by I managed to tractor in the escape pod. The Auxaians then split their attention between me and the transports. La.Volpe managed to escape but MeisterHaku was being attacked. During the defense of Haku at one point I fought three separate Auxasian ships. They kept switching with one another, eventually TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe locked in with me. During the fight Xenos joined the party and in the distraction MeisterHaku escaped. Shortly after that TFP)-BeIlamy.Crowe retreated due to severe damage and TFP)-Fresnel attacked me to cover his retreat. It was a mistake as I destroyed Fresnel's ship.
Shortly after we had returned to Malta I detected a DTR ship fleeing the system towards the Theta jumphole. I pursued the cannibal scum alongside the HS>Il.Lupo.Nero. We chased the DTR ship right back to their disgusting system in Omicron Gamma. HS>Il.Lupo.Nero was unfortunately disabled by two DTR cruisers while I was locked in combat with a Corsair Titan called BlackCoffe. That lumbering excuse of a ship was no match for my Stiletto's maneuverability and he was promptly dispatched. Later the HS>Il.Lupo.Nero was towed out of Omicron Gamma as soon as the DTR ships had cleared the area.
The crews of the HS>Il.Lupo.Nero, The HS>La.Volpe and also the pilot of the Parrot.of.Achilies can all attest to my skill in combat. I will provide sensor recordings to prove the destruction of the Corsair and Axasian.
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