As few of you know, Rheinland Military's Hans Krieger has made it to Capitan just recently. He has been cleared by RMHC to command one of Rheinland's Cruisers. I'm not much of a capital ship guy, but I can't deny there's a special flavor to it when your character's story evolves as much as this one's has. So I'll take it anyway. I could just buy the ship and get done with it, but I think of capitals as being potential RP hubs and I wanted this one to be just that. As such, I'm planning not one, but a series of events that will lead to the ship's depart from Alster to its first flight. As I'm spawning yet another capital into our little universe, I wanted to give something back to the community as a payment for my wickedness.
Background:
Newly appointed Kapitaen Krieger of the Rheinwehr has been cleared to command one of Rheinwehr's Kreuzers. The ship destined to Krieger is still under construction at the Alster Shipyards. RMHC has scheduled a military parade in which Kapitaen Krieger will be given command of the vessel.
Even thought the ship is in its final stages of construction, Alster Shipyards is falling behind schedule and Daumann's engineers fear that the ship won't be ready to be presented to the Kapitaen at the day of the ceremony. Daumann's board of directors fear the political repercussions should the ship not be released in time and decide to turn to other companies to supply them with some finished components(1) needed to put them back on track. Given the political scenario(2), Daumann can only open the contract to the Kusarian companies. Kishiro and Samura elbow each other(3) for the contract.
After the dispute, the company chosen will bring the materials needed (Ship Hull Panels and Optronics) from their Shipyards (either Yukawa or Yokohama) to Alster. Even though this contract isn't openly announced, a rumor(4) is spread amongst the pirate/terrorist groups of Rheinland that a new military behemoth is under construction in Alster and that the Kusarians are supplying the Shipyard with components for it.
(1) I decided to go with finished components considering that the ship is in its final stages of construction.
(2) Neither Liberty nor Bretonia are likely to supply Rheinland with materials for the construction of war ships.
(3) I understand that there's a Samura Heavy Industries faction request and that there's a group of players who have Kishiro identified transports.
(4) Certainly there's enough discontent amongst the workers in Rheinland for this to happen.
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