FROM:Lionel Boucher aboard of [FLG]Fantôme-1 Scout ship TO:Front de Libération High Command Subject:Easy Pickings
Bonjour,
I have some great news. It seems like a wreck of a Gallic Navy battleship must have drifted all the way from the battle with Kusari to relatively close vicinity of Chambery itself.
I took it upon myself to investigate on Fantôme division ligh fighter scout ship. You can still barely read the wreck's designation - Saulx. It is largely destroyed, devoid of energy and a mere husk of it's former self, with no lifesigns detected.
The pressurisation is long gone, in fact the ship is so badly torn apart my scout vessel could physically fly inside the wreck with ease.
Now to the good part - although the reactor is melted, there are still usable remains of weapons, valuables and metals, and no alive Royalist collaborators in sight.
What can I say - easy pickings and a nice gift for The Maquis - I am returning back to Chambery and recommend we return with a crew to strip what we can from the wreck and use it to further our cause.
FROM:Lionel Boucher aboard of [FLG]VG-Heros gunship Subject:A dangerous game
Things might be more complicated than we thought in getting supplies and logistics from 3rd parties.
We have met the Maquis cruiser Normandy. The CO is a man of my gusto. Radical. To the point. Explosive, unpredictable and hard to control. Our movement would not be what it is without heroes of his caliber. Would I trust him to take care of my family after I die while bombing the royalists, much less with some strangers we might do diplomacy with? Well not really but that's besides the point.
Natio trying to screw us?
Nevertheless, he brought up some interesting points about the NO people that recently contacted us. [] CLN-Normandy: Trust noone.
[] CLN-Normandy: Keep them at arms-length.
[] CLN-Normandy: Natio were granted this system as their own in the Leviathan Accords. Back at the end of the first war.
[] CLN-Normandy: As were Crayter.
[] CLN-Normandy: They only seek to remove us.
Needless to say, we will play a long game with them, look into these "accords" whatever they are, and recognises us as the sole owner of The Rousillon system in it's entirety before we proceed with granting them any real estate in our system.
=CR=Crayter Republic [] =CR=N-205-Hermes: In system doing geologic survey scans The man just waltzes in, doing surveys without asking us anything. He was seconds from being blown to bits by my radical Normandy friend * laughs*. Was told to leave, and asked to not come back until his top brass ask for our permission
Again Normandy was ominously sceptical [] CLN-Normandy: You open us up to these...people. They will take everything they can from us.
[] CLN-Normandy: And then we will be cast aside.
[] CLN-Normandy: They are nothing more than lapdogs.
I must say It doesn't help the case of Natio and Crayter to appear together - and gives some weight to my radical friend's suspitions that they might try to shaft us.
An honest accident
Finally, the Natio managed to save some gallic Navy pilots.
[] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: Do you gents mind taking a couple prisoners off my hands? I picked up a couple Enclave stragglers in 44 by the looks of it.
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: enclave you say...hand them over, we will take good care of them
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: Seems like we have an unfortunate airlock malfunction. Careful for those Gallic Navy not to slip out.
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: oh no
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: they are out.
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: Now my weapons seem to be malfunctioning
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: Gunnery, point the malfunctioning weapon Navy's way
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: Seems like they are both dead. What an honest accident.
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher. Technology...can't trust it.
[] [FLG]VG-Heros: You know how it is
And that about sums up my quick stroll in Roussillon.
[05.01.2021 00:33:22] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui, how may we help?
[05.01.2021 00:34:02] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Gotta pay the bills y'know
[05.01.2021 00:34:05] CLN-Normandy: This Crayter vessel is being awfully silent.
[05.01.2021 00:34:09] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Copy, move along freely.
[05.01.2021 00:34:13] CLN-Normandy: You, Crayter.
[05.01.2021 00:34:19] Tip: Armor Upgrades are permanent items which, when mounted, multiply your ship's base hitpoints. It is an essential item on any ship.
[05.01.2021 00:34:25] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Now what is going on there, if I may ask?
[05.01.2021 00:34:26] =CR=N-205-Hermes: We have nothing to hide Captain.
[05.01.2021 00:34:36] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Great, thanks! Don't mind me, my head is buried in my console.
[05.01.2021 00:34:56] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Normandy, status report.
[05.01.2021 00:35:06] CLN-Normandy: Who are you again?
[05.01.2021 00:35:23] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Greetings Maquis. I am Neville Owens. Mining technician
[05.01.2021 00:35:34] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Bonjour, Neville.
[05.01.2021 00:35:37] CLN-Normandy: Hoooows about.
[05.01.2021 00:35:39] =CR=N-205-Hermes: In system doing geologic survey scans
[05.01.2021 00:35:41] CLN-Normandy: You take that scrapheap.
[05.01.2021 00:35:51] CLN-Normandy: And head on back to wherever you Republic folks holed up on.
[05.01.2021 00:36:01] CLN-Normandy: This is Maquis space.
[05.01.2021 00:36:06] CLN-Normandy: You are not welcome.
[05.01.2021 00:36:08] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Non! They are free to move here.
[05.01.2021 00:36:12] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Sir? Why the hostility? I am no military force
[05.01.2021 00:36:27] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Just a Crayterian trying to make his scratch
[05.01.2021 00:36:34] [FLG]VG-Heros: Lionel: See The Natio had the basic courtesy to contact us
[05.01.2021 00:36:37] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Normandy, Crayter can transit our space. Let them do so.
[05.01.2021 00:36:47] [FLG]VG-Heros: Lionel: before even entering anywhere further in our system
[05.01.2021 00:36:59] CLN-Normandy: I am telling this man he is not permitted.
[05.01.2021 00:37:13] CLN-Normandy: Is this Crayter Republic space? Non.
[05.01.2021 00:37:17] CLN-Normandy: This is Maquis space.
[05.01.2021 00:37:29] [FLG]VG-Heros: Lionel: Hermes, let me tell you straight - we don't know you, you say you conducted mining surveys in our system
[05.01.2021 00:37:35] CLN-Normandy: You open us up to these...people. They will take everything they can from us.
[05.01.2021 00:37:42] Death: Tesla89 suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[05.01.2021 00:37:44] CLN-Normandy: And then we will be cast aside.
[05.01.2021 00:37:53] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Hey fleet, mind allowing me a scanner link through your fighter's systems?
[05.01.2021 00:37:53] CLN-Normandy: They are nothing more than lapdogs.
[05.01.2021 00:38:14] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Lapdogs? who?
[05.01.2021 00:38:17] [FLG]VG-Heros: Lionel: I suggest you do it the right way like Natio Octavarium did, and contact first
[05.01.2021 00:38:18] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Gonna try a triangulation link for mapping, might make this a bit easier.
[05.01.2021 00:38:48] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Natio, continue your scans of the systems.
[05.01.2021 00:38:57] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: System, even.
[05.01.2021 00:39:08] [FLG]VG-Heros: I shall accompany you once we deal with mister Jerry here
[05.01.2021 00:39:15] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Such frustration towards the Republic. Didn't expect so much hatred now that the Royalists have departed
[05.01.2021 00:39:35] CLN-Normandy: Departed?!
[05.01.2021 00:39:40] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: so uh, what do we do?
[05.01.2021 00:39:41] CLN-Normandy: They yet live.
[05.01.2021 00:40:10] =CR=N-205-Hermes: A matter I have no influence in Captain. My job focuses on rocks heh
[05.01.2021 00:40:19] CLN-Normandy: Perhaps you should find different rocks.
[05.01.2021 00:40:21] [FLG]VG-Heros: Let me handle this if you will
[05.01.2021 00:40:22] CLN-Normandy: In your own space.
[05.01.2021 00:40:28] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Very well.
[05.01.2021 00:40:30] [FLG]VG-Heros: Hermes -
[05.01.2021 00:40:38] [FLG]VG-Heros: See if from our perspective yes
[05.01.2021 00:40:51] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: use punctuation, mongoloid
[05.01.2021 00:41:01] [FLG]VG-Heros: We just gained undisputed control of the system. You haven't contacted us, Crayter hasn't contacted us
[05.01.2021 00:41:17] CLN-Normandy: We were forcibly ejected from our homes.
[05.01.2021 00:41:23] [FLG]VG-Heros: You understand that for you to conduct any operation here it's only polite for your top brass to ask first
[05.01.2021 00:41:23] CLN-Normandy: Cast out to this...wasteland.
[05.01.2021 00:41:34] [FLG]VG-Heros: As you see
[05.01.2021 00:41:44] [FLG]VG-Heros: we have some more, dedicated, radically dedicated bunch among
[05.01.2021 00:41:44] [FLG]VG-Heros: us
[05.01.2021 00:41:53] =CR=N-205-Hermes: A feeling we Crayterians are all too familiar with. I see your point and will let my director know not to send us here until
[05.01.2021 00:41:56] =CR=N-205-Hermes: this gets sorted
[05.01.2021 00:42:03] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Tres bien!
[05.01.2021 00:42:10] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: We shall awai-
[05.01.2021 00:42:17] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Now what the hell is that?!
[05.01.2021 00:42:52] CLN-Normandy: I wouldn't count on being allowed here.
[05.01.2021 00:42:54] [FLG]VG-Heros: Tell your tob brass to contact us first Hermes. As you can see - without that it is hard for us to hold our "enthusiastic"
[05.01.2021 00:42:55] [FLG]VG-Heros: bunch
[05.01.2021 00:43:02] [FLG]VG-Heros: from going well..enthusiastic
[05.01.2021 00:43:16] CLN-Normandy: This is your only warning. Stay out of our space or face the consequences.
[05.01.2021 00:43:20] [FLG]VG-Heros: You can'r blame Normandy actual after what we have been through.
[05.01.2021 00:43:21] =CR=N-205-Hermes: Gladly sirs. Course set for the anomaly
[05.01.2021 00:43:29] [FLG]VG-Heros: Excellent. Merci
[05.01.2021 00:43:36] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui, I believe this matter is sorted. Crayter, you may leave this area at once.
[05.01.2021 00:43:46] Death: Nicotine was put out of action by Ricardo.Milos (Gun).
[05.01.2021 00:44:01] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Alrighty, I'm mostly done here. I think it's time to plot a course out of this hellhole of a minefield.
[05.01.2021 00:44:10] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Move to my secondary objective.
[05.01.2021 00:44:12] Death: Ricardo.Milos suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[05.01.2021 00:44:25] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: I'm going to talk to the engineers about some kind of HUD upgrade to help navigate these mines.
[05.01.2021 00:44:55] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: do what you must but be quick about it. Our negotiations have only begun.
[05.01.2021 00:44:57] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: I'm sure ADS Can cook something up!
[05.01.2021 00:45:13] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: Fair enough.
[05.01.2021 00:45:26] [FLG]VG-Heros: Your leaders have not made their stance clear - you will limit your time needed here to minimum until negotiations are conclude
[05.01.2021 00:45:36] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: I leave the negotiations to the brass, personally, but I'll do my best not to step on any toes.
[05.01.2021 00:46:01] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: Do you gents mind taking a couple prisoners off my hands?
[05.01.2021 00:46:11] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: I'm just a technician, I do what the company says.
[05.01.2021 00:46:13] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: I picked up a couple Enclave stragglers in 44 by the looks of it.
[05.01.2021 00:46:19] 2021-01-05 00:46:22 SMT Traffic control alert: [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant has requested to dock
[05.01.2021 00:46:38] [FLG]VG-Heros: boucher: enclave you say...
[05.01.2021 00:46:48] [FLG]VG-Heros: hand them over, we will take good care of tjem
[05.01.2021 00:46:50] [FLG]VG-Heros: them
[05.01.2021 00:46:54] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: Be my guest.
[05.01.2021 00:47:19] [FLG]VG-Heros: merci
[05.01.2021 00:47:24] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: You're welcome.
[05.01.2021 00:47:25] [FLG]VG-Heros: wait hang on
[05.01.2021 00:47:29] [FLG]VG-Heros: what is this?
[05.01.2021 00:47:53] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: I'm sorry?
[05.01.2021 00:47:55] [FLG]VG-Heros: Seems like we have an unfortunate airlock malfunction. Careful for those Gallic Navy not to slip out
[05.01.2021 00:48:03] [FLG]VG-Heros: oh no
[05.01.2021 00:48:07] [FLG]VG-Heros: they are out.
[05.01.2021 00:48:11] Death: Silver.Surfer was put out of action by Nicotine (Gun).
[05.01.2021 00:48:14] [FLG]VG-Heros: Now my weapons seem to be malfunctioning
[05.01.2021 00:48:25] [FLG]VG-Heros: Gunnery, point the malfunctioning weapon Navy's way
[05.01.2021 00:48:46] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: Seems like they are both dead. What an honest accident.
[05.01.2021 00:48:53] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher. Technology...can't trust it.
[05.01.2021 00:49:00] [FLG]VG-Heros: You know how it is
[05.01.2021 00:49:35] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Hey Jerry. I'm getting a system crash on one of our scanner systems. I'm not going to be able to finish my work on this flight
[05.01.2021 00:49:44] [FLG]VG-Heros: Now you were saying, your job here is almost done friends? You wanted to come back after an agreement is struck
[05.01.2021 00:49:51] NO-A-Honeysuckle.Creek: Probably will require an overhaul of this buckets avionics. Perhaps we should...leave...
[05.01.2021 00:49:52] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: Roger that. This would probably be a good time to head back, then.
[05.01.2021 00:49:54] [FLG]VG-Heros: and we have a clear stance on your leaders ideology?
[05.01.2021 00:50:04] [FLG]VG-Heros: Ah I see
[05.01.2021 00:50:09] [FLG]VG-Heros: good idea *laughs*
[05.01.2021 00:50:14] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui, we are still awaiting an answer.
[05.01.2021 00:50:16] NO-F-Jerry,Rawlins: I'm sure they'll be back with you soon.
[05.01.2021 00:50:18] Death: Nicotine was put out of action by Silver.Surfer (Collision).
[05.01.2021 00:50:40] [FLG]VG-Heros: Now, what the hell is that thing
[05.01.2021 00:50:43] [FLG]VG-Heros: IW-05-422
[05.01.2021 00:50:55] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Excellent question!
[05.01.2021 00:51:02] [FLG]VG-Heros: Normandy are you picking it up too?
[05.01.2021 00:51:18] CLN-Normandy: We are.
[05.01.2021 00:51:27] [FLG]VG-Heros: it seems to me gone
[05.01.2021 00:51:40] CLN-Normandy: Should it come near we'll blast it.
[05.01.2021 00:51:46] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: between you and I Normandy CO, I'd love to blow some shit up
[05.01.2021 00:51:49] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui!
[05.01.2021 00:51:57] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: Let's face it, this place is a fucking mess
[05.01.2021 00:52:15] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: We need some grunts to do the boring rebuilding so we stick it to the navy
[05.01.2021 00:52:38] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher: Not sure about you, but I don't enjoy hauling damn cargo when so many treasonous bastards are roaming gallia
[05.01.2021 00:53:04] CLN-Normandy: I had engaged a small Gallic fleet earlier today.
[05.01.2021 00:53:07] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui! But we shall deal with them all sooner or later!
[05.01.2021 00:53:11] [FLG]VG-Heros: So do your worst pal
[05.01.2021 00:53:18] CLN-Normandy: I had to make a quick exit after they called for reinforcements.
[05.01.2021 00:53:23] CLN-Normandy: For me, a lone ship.
[05.01.2021 00:53:27] CLN-Normandy: Cowards.
[05.01.2021 00:53:33] [FLG]VG-Heros: try to keep it in your pants with the grunts we try to get to repair our shit and haul for us
[05.01.2021 00:53:38] [FLG]VG-Heros: Like Natio
[05.01.2021 00:53:42] [FLG]VG-Heros: if they pay
[05.01.2021 00:53:48] [FLG]VG-Heros: or denounce the fucking navy openly
[05.01.2021 00:54:02] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui, we must act with caution.
[05.01.2021 00:54:13] [FLG]VG-Heros: If they don't openly support us in public - we will make them pay dearly for using any of our stuff, be assured of that
[05.01.2021 00:54:14] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: But at the same time with efficiency!
[05.01.2021 00:54:26] CLN-Normandy: Vause: I suggest keeping in mind who these people call friends.
[05.01.2021 00:54:36] Tip: Exploration can be very rewarding. The game world has hidden bases and wrecks that do not show up on your map. Find them and the loot is yours to claim.
[05.01.2021 00:54:55] [FLG]VG-Heros: Well, council did it one way
[05.01.2021 00:55:11] CLN-Normandy: Vause: The Council failed. They lost their nerve.
[05.01.2021 00:55:12] [FLG]VG-Heros: we don't exactly pick the purest of friends to get things done *laughs*
[05.01.2021 00:55:19] [FLG]VG-Heros: Council were treatcherous bastards
[05.01.2021 00:55:21] [FLG]VG-Heros: good riddance
[05.01.2021 00:55:34] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Oui! The Council betrayed us!
[05.01.2021 00:55:38] [FLG]VG-Heros: They Gassed our HQ, then destroyed it along with Confederacy
[05.01.2021 00:55:43] [FLG]VG-Heros: they got what they deserved
[05.01.2021 00:55:55] CLN-Normandy: Vause: I suggest being careful who you get into bed with. It is likely it'll happen again if we leave ourselves open to it.
[05.01.2021 00:56:15] [FLG]VG-Heros: still so many of those spineless council politicians now have jobs in The Navy *spits*
[05.01.2021 00:56:22] [FLG]VG-Heros: Normandy of course
[05.01.2021 00:56:28] [FLG]VG-Heros: Ideology is the most important to us
[05.01.2021 00:56:53] [FLG]VG-Heros: if someone doesn't openly go against the traitors, we will make them pay dearly for even a smidge of our support
[05.01.2021 00:57:19] [FLG]VG-Heros: boucher: and let's face it
[05.01.2021 00:57:42] [FLG]VG-Heros: even if we do let someone supply is in exchange for some Rousillon real estate
[05.01.2021 00:57:54] [FLG]VG-Heros: I have no illusions in keeping the enthusiastic bunch like you
[05.01.2021 00:58:05] [FLG]VG-Heros: from pressing on them from time to time anyways * laughs*
[05.01.2021 00:58:32] [FLG]VG-Heros: Anyways Normandy CO
[05.01.2021 00:58:38] [FLG]VG-Heros: What should be our next target
[05.01.2021 00:58:41] [FLG]VG-Heros: we want to make a statement
[05.01.2021 00:58:47] [FLG]VG-Heros: we want to get our radical members to go all out
[05.01.2021 00:59:12] [FLG]VG-Heros: I am thinking a nice bombing of the Royalist Collaborator hub would suffice
[05.01.2021 00:59:16] [FLG]VG-Heros: which one and how though
[05.01.2021 00:59:17] [FLG]VG-Heros: ideas?
[05.01.2021 00:59:20] CLN-Normandy: Have you been to Brittany recently?
[05.01.2021 00:59:36] [FLG]VG-Heros: the fuck is that
[05.01.2021 00:59:41] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: Orkney
[05.01.2021 00:59:54] CLN-Normandy: The Navy are all out of place.
[05.01.2021 01:00:01] [FLG]VG-Heros: We have not done thorough research there no
[05.01.2021 01:00:04] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Ah, Issoudun. The perfect place to strike!
[05.01.2021 01:00:06] [FLG]VG-Heros: what target is ripe to be struck there
[05.01.2021 01:00:17] [FLG]VG-Heros: Issodun? are they even using that
[05.01.2021 01:00:20] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: Issoudun, Heros.
[05.01.2021 01:00:24] CLN-Normandy: Bring that station down while they try and move it.
[05.01.2021 01:00:30] CLN-Normandy: Before they reinforce.
[05.01.2021 01:00:47] [FLG]VG-Heros: you do talk about Issodun?
[05.01.2021 01:00:55] CLN-Normandy: Indeed.
[05.01.2021 01:01:06] [FLG]VG-Le.Vigilant: CIC: I'm afraid I'll have to make my leave now. Au revoir!
[05.01.2021 01:01:26] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher, very well - same for us. I thank you for your suggestion Normandy - we see if we can strike them there
[05.01.2021 01:02:02] CLN-Normandy: I'd also be very wary about allowing anyone any 'real estate' here.
[05.01.2021 01:02:10] CLN-Normandy: Give them an inch, they'll take the whole mile.
[05.01.2021 01:02:29] [FLG]VG-Heros: The Natio people seem harmless. Like we could squash them at any point.
[05.01.2021 01:02:45] CLN-Normandy: Its all an illusion.
[05.01.2021 01:02:46] [FLG]VG-Heros: They don't seem to have actual military of any kind
[05.01.2021 01:02:54] CLN-Normandy: Trust noone.
[05.01.2021 01:03:18] CLN-Normandy: Keep them at arms-length.
[05.01.2021 01:03:28] [FLG]VG-Heros: Problem is
[05.01.2021 01:03:31] [FLG]VG-Heros: you see this place?
[05.01.2021 01:03:41] CLN-Normandy: I do.
[05.01.2021 01:03:49] [FLG]VG-Heros: Planet is messed up, our bases have no resources. Pamiers is hardly holding together.
[05.01.2021 01:03:56] [FLG]VG-Heros: And I sure as hell don't want to focus on logistics
[05.01.2021 01:04:02] [FLG]VG-Heros: When I can plan say...bombing Issodun
[05.01.2021 01:04:12] CLN-Normandy: Then we outsource such things to fellow gauls.
[05.01.2021 01:04:23] CLN-Normandy: I do not trust Sirians.
[05.01.2021 01:04:35] [FLG]VG-Heros: wouldn't have it any other way *laughs*
[05.01.2021 01:05:04] [FLG]VG-Heros: But who...Brigands, please. how will they repair stations. Corse, Corse play their damn game
[05.01.2021 01:05:15] [FLG]VG-Heros: between you and I
[05.01.2021 01:05:21] [FLG]VG-Heros: we both know they can't be trusted either
[05.01.2021 01:05:39] CLN-Normandy: Of course not. Outsourcing everything to Sirian's is a worse option, however.
[05.01.2021 01:05:55] CLN-Normandy: Natio were granted this system as their own in the Leviathan Accords. Back at the end of the first war.
[05.01.2021 01:06:00] CLN-Normandy: As were Crayter.
[05.01.2021 01:06:06] CLN-Normandy: They only seek to remove us.
[05.01.2021 01:06:13] [FLG]VG-Heros: Interesting
[05.01.2021 01:06:14] CLN-Normandy: We cannot let that happen.
[05.01.2021 01:06:38] CLN-Normandy: The Crayter Republic are weak. Even the Maltese can walk all over them.
[05.01.2021 01:06:50] [FLG]VG-Heros: So any agreement must explicitly state both crayter and Natio recognise The Maquis as Sovereign owners of The rousillon system
[05.01.2021 01:07:05] [FLG]VG-Heros: And that treaty you mentioned
[05.01.2021 01:07:08] [FLG]VG-Heros: is fucking void
[05.01.2021 01:07:18] [FLG]VG-Heros: we will look into this and bring it up with them. I am glad you were here.
[05.01.2021 01:07:27] CLN-Normandy: I promise you, any sort of suggestion that they lose their claim and they'll turn on you.
[05.01.2021 01:07:50] [FLG]VG-Heros: That is to be seen. We will make just that demand.
[05.01.2021 01:08:33] CLN-Normandy: I look forward to seeing how that goes.
[05.01.2021 01:08:40] [FLG]VG-Heros: boucher: I suppose The Front will need to look into boring politics afterall * sighs*
[05.01.2021 01:08:49] [FLG]VG-Heros: Boucher on the other hand, we can make them wait
[05.01.2021 01:09:20] CLN-Normandy: You do not need to get into politics.
[05.01.2021 01:09:24] [FLG]VG-Heros: Making a statement to The Navy is a priority over logistics, and rebuilding tands up with fist held high:
[05.01.2021 01:09:33] CLN-Normandy: The system is ours. We shoot anyone who disagrees.
[05.01.2021 01:09:37] CLN-Normandy: Simple.
[05.01.2021 01:09:43] [FLG]VG-Heros: *laughs*
[05.01.2021 01:10:02] [FLG]VG-Heros: Wouldn't be The Maquis if we didn't have guys like you with us!
[05.01.2021 01:10:16] CLN-Normandy: I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.
[05.01.2021 01:10:48] [FLG]VG-Heros: Well, we will do our best, make our claim, if they fail to recognise us, scratch that...treaty or whatever and pay dearly. Even
[05.01.2021 01:11:02] [FLG]VG-Heros: we will be the first to take their resources not just here, believe me
[05.01.2021 01:11:27] CLN-Normandy: We have the upper hand.
[05.01.2021 01:11:29] CLN-Normandy: Do not forget that.
[05.01.2021 01:11:30] [FLG]VG-Heros: If they do agree - you can try holding back, but we are Maquis * laughs* won't exactly stop you from doing radical shit
[05.01.2021 01:11:42] CLN-Normandy: We bow to noone.
[05.01.2021 01:11:49] [FLG]VG-Heros: Viva!
[05.01.2021 01:12:14] [FLG]VG-Heros: Merci for the insights, We will make sure to keep Natio at arm's lenght and give them strict terms.
AuthorLionel Boucher aboard of [FLG]Fantôme-1 scout ship Subject:That glorious sight
It's been a while since we've checked on the Royalists in Aq Edinburgh. I took the long way around not to risk capture, and to swing by that planet that reminds us just what they are capable of.
I still get chills righ before jumping into their system - you never know what awaits you, and if you even get away alive.
I found the Enclave all right, they just couldn't see me anymore! Looks like the brets did a number on them.
I can only imagine the horror they were facing - so many of them,people with homes and dreams, Gasping for air. Remembering their families back home they will never get back to, their lives flashing infront of their eyes, only to succumb to the cold hard inevitable arm of death and destruction to the last man.THE SIGHT WAS GLORIOUS!:::Boucher pauses in thought and takes a satisfying sip of his coffee when remembering the spectacle of the extinguished lives of his enemies he saw today:::
There was just one issue - their sacrément massif shipyard is just damn gone with no Debris in sight where it once stood!
How de m**** did it just magically dissapear? I followed to the nearest logical jump hole, and sure enough. The Royalists must have moved there en route to meet with the treatcherous Confederacy...
Orkney, the one and only...This is no job for a single scout ship however. It was time to return to base, and petition my brothers in arms to send a larger scouting party to the system - maybe we can still catch The Royalists on the move.
AuthorLionel Boucher aboard of [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire Subject:Rant
NOW they are waking up, NOW they are starting to slowly, very very slowly, see?
[] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: Gallia is in turmoil as they've invited the genocidal Enclave fleet into their ranks
[] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: We've not received diplomatic stances from their new government on how they plan to deal with the terrorists in their midst
Where was Sirius when the Confederacy was formed? With the same Royals they are up in arms against NOW? After so many of us died, after they took hold of Gallia?
Where are all the damn groups that cried genocide? They push the Royals and their collaborators back but only as far as it's convenient?
Did they really believe the damn propaganda about "reformed Gallia" and Confederacy, when our children could see what was coming?
Maybe it's my fault. Maybe it's The Maquis fault. The Confederate and now The Gallic Navy wheel of propaganda kept churning and pulling wool over Sirius' eyes. Our voice has not been strong enough, loud enough - our methods perhaps too one sided to be taken seriously by the desk jockeys.
I don't care what it takes, we will fight The Royalists on all fronts. We will see them burn. We will ramp up our own propaganda channels. Make their supply lines tremble in fear, their treatcherous soldiers will never have a second of peace without worrying where we might strike. We will even :::Boucher gulps while trying to hold back his rage::: sit at one tablewith and deal with the blind Sirians diplomatically, if that's what it takes to make them see and finally take our voices seriously.
[07.01.2021 15:35:05] Death: MNS-Santa.Venera was put out of action by [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire (Gun).
[07.01.2021 15:35:09] =CR=Viper,: Nice work.
[07.01.2021 15:35:09] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Bon
[07.01.2021 15:35:15] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: and who the merde are you people
[07.01.2021 15:35:18] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: Very good
[07.01.2021 15:35:35] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: CO: Greetings Maquis vessel and many thanks
[07.01.2021 15:35:43] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: Cr-yter?
[07.01.2021 15:35:53] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: We are of the Crayter Military
[07.01.2021 15:36:03] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: I believe I have seen oen of you enter our system without asking!
[07.01.2021 15:36:17] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: But here you handle the outcast
[07.01.2021 15:36:35] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: The Outcast menace stands a great threat to teh Taus
[07.01.2021 15:36:35] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: What do we make of you!
[07.01.2021 15:37:32] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: Maybe so
[07.01.2021 15:37:37] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: We are not fans of them either
[07.01.2021 15:37:47] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: but themain question is in the air
[07.01.2021 15:38:02] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: no clue who you people are, but what is your stance to The Gallic Navy
[07.01.2021 15:38:09] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: We've heard reports of the rise of your forces around Gallia
[07.01.2021 15:38:31] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: Gallia is in turmoil as they've invited the genocidal Enclave fleet into their ranks
[07.01.2021 15:38:32] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: and you will hear more *laughs* explosive news
[07.01.2021 15:38:49] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: preaching to the choir here.
[07.01.2021 15:38:58] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: BOucher: The Confederacy was the same.
[07.01.2021 15:39:06] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: We've not received diplomatic stances from their new government on how they plan to deal with the terrorists in their midst
[07.01.2021 15:39:32] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: where were you when The Confederacy legitimised the royalist Duchy of Burgundy
[07.01.2021 15:40:07] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: Fighting Outcasts most likely. They made a great invasion into our home of late
[07.01.2021 15:40:10] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: Many lives lost
[07.01.2021 15:40:28] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: There is nothing to wait for. Confederacy themselves were Treatcherous murderous Royalist collaborators
[07.01.2021 15:40:34] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: I understand
[07.01.2021 15:40:43] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: Defending your home takes precedence
[07.01.2021 15:41:01] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: But you say you are leaving things - open-With The Gallic Navy for now?
[07.01.2021 15:41:44] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: My job is to defend the borders. Our ministry handles such affairs but as far as I'm concerned, I don't see how we can be fine
[07.01.2021 15:41:46] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: with them
[07.01.2021 15:42:15] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: I didn't see you around when The Confederates gassed and murdered their own kin
[07.01.2021 15:42:27] =CR=Viper,: I am personally not fond of running into more outcasts out here. I shall RTB.
[07.01.2021 15:42:28] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: Well I understand you are not your government
[07.01.2021 15:42:55] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: We are heading back for repairs. I am glad you personally see eye to eye. But between you and I
[07.01.2021 15:43:23] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: we won't look fondly on anyone who keeps playing friends with The Gallic Navy, or who didn't denounce Confederacy
[07.01.2021 15:43:33] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: Sadly, very few saw through their evil.
[07.01.2021 15:43:42] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: Monieur, we thank you again for assistance. I would invite you to contact our ministry so that we can see where that leads
[07.01.2021 15:43:51] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: But I too must head for resupply
[07.01.2021 15:44:02] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: Boucher: We have seen one of your kin in our system. Ball is in your corner - contact us when your stance is clear
[07.01.2021 15:44:05] [FLG]VG-Revolutionnaire: heading off for repairs
[07.01.2021 15:44:10] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: CO: Crew, make ready for resupply. Stow what you have
[07.01.2021 15:44:29] =CR=FV-Hermes|216: I will pass the word
Today was productive. The boss took me out on a scouting mission to confirm rumors our people had warned us about. Our course took us to the Orkney system where it was easy to spot our target: Issoudun Shipyard. The Royalists have somehow towed it up here rather fast from Edinburgh. In their rush though it seems their logistics are in complete chaos. A large train of fat ladened down transports idle outside the station no doubt waiting for the newly transplanted shipyard to get things under control and begin receiving supplies regularly again. A juicy target it would seem. The prize seems lightly guarded by only two cruisers too.
While we were conducting our surveillance we encountered something quite fortuitous. A Gaian captain by the name of Devin Blackwood, says he leads a prominent cell of Bretonians. Boucher and I had some serious doubts for sure and expressed them to this Blackwood. Our comms exchange was quite extensive and we came to see a friend in this one, rather than foe. It seems his people want to enact some vengeance for the suffering they endured during the Royalist occupation of Edinburgh. He seems to have some propaganda skills too that might prove useful. We concluded we should find a secure location where we might explore our possible plans with Blackwood and his people more extensively and he invited us to one of their secret lairs within the system. Kirkwall they call it. If this relationship continues, it could be a valuable location to work from. Boucher and I are cautious but optimistic at our new found acquaintance and eager to see what we can accomplish together.
[14.01.2021 00:41:58] [FLG]NT-Harceleur: What the hell? *laughs*
[14.01.2021 00:42:03] "Cannonballer": idk
[14.01.2021 00:42:06] [FLG]NT-Harceleur: Not the navy I expected
[14.01.2021 00:42:20] [FLG]NT-Harceleur: What are you doing here sir! [14.01.2021 00:42:30] "Cannonballer": discovering)
[14.01.2021 00:42:42] "Cannonballer": and trying to find a way to Nomads
FROM: [FLG]VG-Le.Brethon Subject: Battle in Provence
Today, our forces, spearheaded by the Battlecruiser Le Brethon, attacked a Gallic Navy positon in the Provence system. The first ship we encountered was an "Obstinate"-class Battlecruiser, defending the area we were heading to.
While at first outnumbering the enemy, Navy forces were quick to send in reinforcements, consisting of a second, "Adamant"-class, Battlecruiser and a "Valor"-class Battleship. Against an enemy superior in both numbers and technology, our forces held out long enough to disable the enemy battleship and heavily damage the two remaining battlecruisers.
This victory, however, did not come at a cheap price. Our forces were routed and forced to retreat, with all our ships suffering heavy damage.
Our operations in the Provence system continue to cause chaos among the Navy. Their forces are often slow to act, allowing us to carry operations while being relatively safe.
FROM:Lionel Boucher TO:Front de Libération fighters Subject:The Battle for Resources
Bonjour,
Many of of you more, zelaous, heroes might not understand what I tell you now. But we need logistics, materials and resources.
With recent influx of patriots that oppose to the abominous treatchery against our people, The Royalist controlled Gallic Union we are, in the first time ever, in posession of means of conventional combat and capital assets, spearheaded by Battleship Pamiers.
Natio Octavarium Contract
We were approached bySirian smuggling group, "NO". They want to cooperate in Roussillon. There are voices from the more radical of you that we should shoot them on sight like all sirians who sit idly by as The Genocidal Royalists took power. I understand that tendency, believe me :::boucher chuckles:::. However we need to adapt, beat the Royalists in any way we can - for that we need supplies, materials, weapons and logistical support for our newly gained glorious Maquis Battlegroup.
I have commisioned a contract to see if we can trust them, and in the process we will gain crapton of Ship Hull panels to bolster Pamiers, Black Market ammunition we can use to rig transports and make our weapons roar across Gallia, and even some Millitary Vehicles for planetary and on - station action and Ship to Ship boarding.
I ask for your patience in these testing times, hold your zelaous spirit at bay if you can when these Sirians deliver us what we need - let them deliver it in peace, even in Roussillon.
Juicy Target
As you maybe read, me and Remi have discovered a juicy huge former Enclave civillian convoy in Orkney - this can mean only one thing. We will unleash the most radical, gloriously brutal of you in sending the traitors straight to hell before they rejoin the disgusting Gallic Union. We have no bases in the system, how the hell we pull that off Boucher?
Well we met someone called Nemesis. I still don't know who exactly these people are or why they want to do this...But it seems clearly that our immediate aim is aligned - seeing that convoy burn. They even showed us their hidden base in Orkney where we can plot our assauilt - now we are just waiting to hear from them and we will unleash hell on The convoy.
Resources without 3rd party strangers
Right now we have to depend on the Sirians to supply us, along with the unstable Brigands, and two faced Corse. I found a way how we can go it alone. We will use the massive amount of Debris from the Kusari incursion to salvage the technology. There is a lot of directly compatible Council millitary material flying around, ripe for the taking.
Again - unusual for us to try to get materials this way, but we have no choice - I ask for your commitment. I hope we learned from the Saulx debacle - we will do low-key operations, use small freighters to obtain the Millitary Salvage, without detection. There might be enough of it flying around for months.
FROM:Lionel Boucher Aboard the freighter [FLG]NT-Chasseur Subject:A successful run
Montmorency under fire
Firts my crew have assaulted the battleship. We got a lot of shots on, faced just some verbal resistance from one Jeuge.Duval, the hull wouldn't budge however. The Destroyer GRNIToulouse also ran from us like a scared rabbit when they saw what our ship can do. We shall continue the assaults if it is this easy in the future.
Popular support
We went onto a freighter run - and to our surprise, the people of Gallia are already waking up to the horrors of the Royalist regime and feel for our cause - even the treatcherous collaborating GMS! Keep going my fellow heroes - this clearly shows we are on the right path towards free Gallia!
As you can see - GMS are feeling for us. Perhaps there might be some heroes amongst them afterall! But time will tell. A simple thing like allowing us to rig their transport with explosives and giving their life for the greater good during a destruction of a Gallic Navy asset could start convincing us they are not beyond repair.
As you can see - the pilot couldn't have felt in any way pressured - I was commanding a mere harmless little transport freighter, so his support of our cause is purely his own and genuine!
[17.01.2021 13:51:26] [FLG]NT-Chasseur: You did not say the statement you were asked to say.
[17.01.2021 13:51:52] GMS|Marcel.Istres: You keep changing your mind
[17.01.2021 13:52:05] GMS|Marcel.Istres: Is it I or me?
[17.01.2021 13:52:04] [FLG]NT-Chasseur: I'll make is simple. Say exactly "I, Marcel Istres feel for he maquis cause"
[17.01.2021 13:52:06] [FLG]NT-Chasseur: or die.
[17.01.2021 13:52:49] GMS|Marcel.Istres: exactly I Marcel Istre feel for the maquis cause
[17.01.2021 13:53:00] [FLG]NT-Chasseur: excellent!