First off, i want to say that i was in no way trying to incorperate the homeworld systems or factions into freelancer, i just mearly liked the name Hiigara.
And secondly, being 'ghosts' i fit it into the story that we couldnt just roam around Sirius doing what ever we want. Ive made it like other factions in that we have specific roles and really i think we are no different than other factions.
Just that we have a neat background story. With all that said ill put on my Flame proof jacket and post my RP story. It took me about 1hr and 1/2 to type and about 4 days to get it to its current state. So please any advise would be welcomed. as i really want to get this faction started.
We currently have 5 members and id like NOT to have to change the [Ghost] tag if possible, but we shall see, thx all for your time and consideration.
I havent done a spelling or grammer check yet, so please forgive me on any errors you see, english was never my best subject in school :crazy:
** ive updated the Story to reflect a more Disco related story, at least i think so
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800 years prior to the formation of Sirius, in a Galaxy known as Kitira, two factions clashed in civil war with one another. The Hiigarans, and the Templars. For ages beyond reckoning, they batteled with one another suffering countless looses on either side. The war seemed likely not to end. However, with the discovery of alien artifacts followed the turning tide of the war. The Hiigarns had managed to be able to harness some powerfull artifacts and incorperate them into their ships that transformed them into vessels of un-inmaginable power. They soon swept away base after base of the Templars and in doing so recovered more artifacts buried within the planets. Soon after the Templars discovered an Artifact of such power that would certainly spell doom for their race if the Hiigarns ever aquired it. The preformed tests and countless projects to harness the powerfull artifact and all proved fruitless. With every test done by the Templars, the more negative the reaction from the alien artifact. Such things as explosions and complete vaporization of everything around it caused the Templars to almost give up. A general of the Templars however saw this as just the weapon to defeat the Hiigaran. By suggesting that the Hiigaran's 'aquire' the artifact from a abandoned Templar base, he reasoned it could destroy the Hiigaran completely. Most did not see his reasoing behind this decision, but it was clear to those that knew of the artifacts power. Any attempt to use it resulted in a greater outburst from the alien artifact, and knowing this (and the Hiigaran pride and hunger for artifacts), was a sure fire way to cause a massive blow to their fleet in some way, and possibly tip the war back in their favor.
As expected the Hiigarans cheered and welcomed their newly discovered relic as a way to end the war. For they reasoned, if emplanted into their Flagship "The Pride of Hiigara", could be used to destroy whole planets and decimate fleets single handedly. The fleet was recalled back to their home world of Hiigara and process went underway to fuse the Relic with their flagship. A month later their hour of trumph was finnaly at hand, or so they had thought. A meeting was held and all the top ranking members of the Hiigaran fleet gathered upon the Flagship in the fusion chamber of the Relic to bear witness to the historic event. Templar spys listened in with eager ears, for it was they, who were truely at their hour of triumph. The Fusion process was started and the Flagships'main support systems and engines begain to humm and come to life. Drinks were opened, passed around, and toasted to their sucess. But suddenly something happended that neither side had expected. The Relic suddenly glowed with a blood red light and the following burst of green light ripped the souls completely from the bodys of all the people gathered in the fusion room and their lifeless bodies fell to the floor. A few seconds later a explosion equal to that of a exploding star commenced and vaporized everything. The whole of the Hiigaran fleet was vaporized as well as their home in a split second. The Templar spies couldnt even get off a message to their commanding officers before their lives were taken. The only thing remaing was that sole artifact. The Templars deemed that sector a holy place and none were allowed to enter. The Relic drifted through space undesturbed for about 800 years where it finnally made its way into a system known as Siris.
It drifted through space and ended up floating through new berlin. A Pirate, named Tanis "Nightblade" Matthews, spotted an unknown object on his scanners. He was feeling rather lucky this day so he decided to alter his course and go and investigate. When got within 400M he scanned the item and discovered it was an alien artifact of some kind. He tractored the item into his hull and set his plane to autopilot. He got up, stretched his arms out wide and picked up his jacket, for it was suddenly rather cold in his small Ravens Talon. He walked down to the cargo hold to take a look at his new item. Approaching the small door to his cargo hold he looked rather confused, as a bright green glow was being emitted from around the edges of the door. Opening it slowly he discovered that the source of such a bright light was the artifact. He drew his pistol and approached the object carefully. A sudden flash of green light temporarly blinded him and after a few seconds he had managed to recover. Standing before him were five men, some middle aged and one was a little older than the rest. Shaking with confusion, his trigger finger became a little twitchy and he tried his best to control it. The five men before him seemed as equally confused and shocked of the current situation. They looked around and discovered each other with joyfull expressions but that was quickly dismissed as they took in the new threat. A man in his early twenties carrying a pistol looking at them in a very confused and frightened manner. The five men knew collectively (as men who have seen countless years of war understand), that most of them would die if they had tried to approach this man. Due to the fact that they were all cramped together in the back of some ship on their hands and knews because there was not even room to stand up.
"Who are you and how did you get here?!" Tanis cried more in fright than anger. Each of the five men looked confusingly at each other and then back at Tanis. "We not know get here how." Stated the leader, haveing none of them seemingly being able to understanding the dialect of the language that Tanis spoke. For their own language differed slightly from the language being spoken today, but it had some simularties. "This is the Rienland Military, respond vessel or we shall open fire!" cried a RM officer over the ships comm channel. Tanis jumped suddely and cursed a manner of bad words before telling his visitors, "Trouble, hold on". The five men nodded in understanding as Tanis raced off to the cockpit of his ship. "You have fix seconds to reply." Blared the voice over the comm. Tanis amptly replied, "This is Zoner vessel the SS Aurora, i am on a exploration mission." After a few moments the RM responded, "Stand by, we are going to conduct a cargo scan on your vessel." Swearing loudly for a few moments, he took his ship off auto pilot and was prepared to make a run for it. Knowing the RM would not take kindly to him having five people along with an alien artifact in his cargo hold. "Dont move scum, we are going to board your ship and take you and your passangers in for questioning." No sooner did the RM say this did Tanis blast his way out of the area. The RM, expecting as much, were ready as well to engage.
Tanis quickly engaged his cruise engine hopeing for a quick get away, but the RM were prepared and fired a cruise disrupter to stop him. He dodged around rocks and evaded many shots, but his ship was taking damage and couldnt withstand much more. Fearing for the lives of his passangers he made another desperate attempt to escape, but to no avail. He knew what must be done, the notified the RM through the Comm channel that he was giving up and that they could board his ship to take him hostage. As the RM boarded his ship they were quick to stun the Red Hessian and drag him and his five friends onboard their ship. Another RM pilot came and began to fly Tanis' Raven Talon in formation with the other RM. They were taken to planet New Berlin and were subjected to numerous interrigations, some of which not very lawfull. They were mistified by the five other men, they were dressed in a manner they did not recognize and noone could understand what they were saying. That only led to more painfull torture routines because they felt they were being mocked. As they were being thrown back into their cell, each looking as tired and beaten as the next, they gazed at each other, trying to make sense of it all. The last man to enter, one of the five named Sebastion, was bleeding very heavily from many places and his friends rushed to his side.
Tanis came over to try to offer his aid, but nothing could be done for the poor man, his time was done. Sebastian beckoned for Tanis to come closer, and he did so, not wanting to deny a dying man of his last request. Tanis drew very close as the man wispered to him, "Remember me.... stranger.....as we remember .....Hiigara....and.....dont...let.....pride..blind you... as... well.." His eyes showed their whites and Tanis was filled with remourse and anger. "We shall escape from here, stated the leader of the Hiigaran. And we shall have our revenge." Astonished Tanis looked at him and said, "You can speak our language?!" He smiled and plainly stated, "That I can. Knowledge is power, and to fool the enemy, is a good way to use it." Looking around Tanis stated, "They are not going to keep us here long, they will soon transport us and many others to a nearby prision facility. Hopefully my friends will have heard of my misfortune and seek to break us free of the Prision liner." The leader knodded his head and smiled a hopefull smile. I am known as Commander Zeratul, this man on my left is Admiral Ygdrassil, the other on my right is Admiral Pathos. This one is Admiral Lilo and lastly Admiral Robroy. Each nodding repectively, Tanis replied, "I am Tanis Matthews, well met all of you."
A few weeks passed and as Tanis had stated, they and many others were loaded aboard a prisin liner that was destined to Stuttgart. The big ship was load and not much more spacious as the Prison cell in New berlin. They felt a sudden jerk as they entered the trade lane and an uneasy feeling was in the air. They entered a few more such trade lanes with no problems, finally coming upon the Jump gate to Stuttgart. A bright light surrounded the ship as it jumped through the gate and entered the Stuttgart system. Tanis began to worry that his friends did not hear of his capture and each of them exchanged worried glances. As they docked at the next trade lane, a sudden hault in the ship renued their hopes. Two fighter wings and a Red Hessian Cruiser had disrupted the trade lane and were quickly taking down the Liners escourts. The cruiser worked on disabling the Liner. It was a very fast battle and the Liner quickly released its prisoners to the Red Hessian Cruiser. Tanis and the others were cheering loudly upon boarding the Cruiser and the fighter wings and the Cruiser quickly made way to the Dresden jump hole nearby in the system. In a matter of moments the ship and its escourts were safely in Vogtland base. Most men were taken to Medical to be treated for wounds and injuries.
Gaining their own rooms they rested there for the night. They woke early in the mourning to meet up with Tanis to discuss what to do next. Each of the remaining four greatly wanted revenge for the death of their comrade, but Tanis was still confused as to how they arrived in his ship, and where it is exactly they came from. The story was explained in detail to him and they sat pondering what it is they should do. While Tanis was a Red Hessian, he did not quite follow the rules of their leader, he was a freelancer of sorts pledging alliengce to the RH. They decided to band together for vengence and to aid the RH on their own terms. They became a seperate band of Red Hessians known as the Ghosts of Hiigara. After their memories of their homeland. Together they raid the RM and bring swift death to any who try to stand in their way. Or to any that try to harm their new found Red Hessian friends.
I'm afraid that whilst it is a good story, it doesn't really fit into Disco in my opinion.
It just doesn't work. Why would they ally with Hessians? Why would the Ghosts care about ridding Sirius of those that want to control it? Only two factions potentially want this control, the Outcasts by getting everyone hooked on Cardamine (maybe) and the SCRA, who basically want a Communist dictatorship.
kk, firstly they allied with the Hessians because 'Tanis' was a Hessian and they decided that in order to help the oppressed that the Red Hessians were as good as any (becuase thats where they were currently). And ya i did kinda leave that part unconnected.
And they want to rid the system of the Houses becuase after what they did (killing all those people in order to gain their conquest) and haveing 800 years to think about it, they decided they didnt want such things to happen again.
hrmmm that is rather intresting, and of course i didnt know that. I wanted to choose a faction that noone had, but it seems that the RHA already were here and i didnt see that
I could choose another faction, but im not sure as to which one to pick, that took longer than makin the RP story
All my friends were actually in a faction, I was in Nova along with 2 others and with Intox got mad and kicked people without thinking about it, we were the ones kicked, so we decided to create our own.
And ya see the problem we had trying to pick a NPC faction, just bout all of em are taken ^.^, what if i were to change the story around to fit more into a Disco setting?
And perhaps find another more suitable faction? Or make the RP around the red hessians?
If joining an already established faction isn't an option, which is a shame, there's always the possibility of setting up a rival Blood Dragon faction to the NovaPG to make up for the insult (so long as this is kept friendly out-of-game) or perhaps a Hogosha faction in opposition to them and their Shogunate values.
... joining a established faction IS a possibility -.-, but we prefer not to at the moment, and we were thinking bout creating a rival faction as well, But intox has since made a formal apology and has made up for his transgressions. He asked us to rejoin Nova, but we turned him down. Now if you will, back to the story.
I like to go with ideas that all of us agree upon, as its not just my faciton (even though im the leader). We all agreed it should be a pirate faction, as we rather enjoy pirating.
I meant that in-character you, being a proud ronin, might not accept his apology. This would make for more Disco-flavoured roleplaying.
I'm honestly stuck for ideas with the current story however, hopefully someone else will come up with some suggestions (like Fellow Hoodlum, maybe...).