I'm appealing to all those old school Rogues and associates that can tell me everything I need to know about why a stricken LN Dread is in Cassini, and how the Rogues came to capturing it.
First thing I need to know is why the LN sent a fleet to Cassini?
There are a a lot of fighter wrecks around the Nonsense Factory, so obviously some kind of manoeuvre was done out those ways.
Was the transformation of Terre Haute into the Nonsense Factory related?
What date did this happen? Heard from Spaz it was there in .84
The Junkers know - apparently the Rogue's captured an LN dread that was so combat damaged as to be basically scrap - so, they hired the Junker's to try and fix it.
The Junkers couldnt, but they did manage to draw up some design schematics so the Rogue's could make their own LN Dread.
In the end, Rogue shipwrights being what they are, and the designs being less then perfect - you get...
Didn't DSE try setting up a base in Cassini to investigate the pulsar?
Just have a look on the wiki it explains it on all of the infocards of the stations in Cassini.
What I assumed happened was when DSE set up their base the LR sort of took over and lay siege to the base. LN tried to take back the hold of the system but failed. The LNS Magnificent being a prototype dread was sent in while this was happening and was severely damaged leading it's crew to abandon ship.
The LR then employed us junkers to try and fix the damn ship however due to it being beyond repair we managed to salvage important blueprints based on the design of the ship. The LR then made an attempt as Dane said to build the ship at the Nonsense Factory. But an obvious failure was made. A ship with no working engines. The Junkers still have a base in Cassini. Toplita base.
That's as good as any story, but then again as DSE head, I haven't heard of any attempts to rescue these guys in any of our lore.
Also, I found no reference to why the dreadnaught is there on any info cards on any of the bases in Cassini so I am still eagerly looking for my answers.
.84 Cassini was a masterpiece of powergaming. Terra Haute was nonsense. Four ship tubes, and a gleam as if it were new... just didn't fit. Terra Haute was retconned out and replaced with the Nonsense Factory. Or you can make up whatever you want for a story. How about an LN dread came and blew up our fair shipyard, but got wrecked in the process? However the dread gets wrecked, Dane's summation of how it got fixed is pretty spot on.
Toplita was the price of the co-operation. Junkers wanted a base up there. somewhere they could be sneaky. Rogues saw a good deal in having a Junker base so close to hand, so they said yes. In return they got the dread. Shame it don;t work (and never will)
As for Foster, the Rogues don;t even know it's there. Yet more examples of Rogue efficency. System surveyors they ain't. When they found Cassini, they did a cursory check around, found San Quentin, stole it and built from there. They assumed that a system so far out of the way was occupied as a waypoint and for no other reason. The endless DSE transport wrecks that should be pointing the way to the station would have just seemed like morons to the Rogues.
Attica is the big rock. Home away from home and where anything important is kept. Really isn't much story there, feel free to make it up.
The two destroyers are the former flagships of the LR. Felix Valdar's Graviton was parked there after he went walkabout. Sylpheed personally parked the Quietly Confident up there after he commissioned the Mothers.
Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.