Corsica Shipyard

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Corsica Shipyard
Owner
Outcasts
Location
B/C-3, Omicron Alpha

CLASS: Cordillera

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Restricted

AMENITIES: Limited

CREW: 1100

Corsica Shipyard is the oldest Outcast installation hewn into the asteroid of the same name's lifeless husk. Its drydocks spear out of the massive rock, with warships of different sizes present in various stages of construction. While many Outcasts come and go from the base, mostly rotating between shipbuilding and returning to the orange dream on Malta, few can tell how this base came to be due to the original secrecy of its construction project.

In modern days and with the inclusion of Valletta and Venice to the Corsica Complex, the Outer Sanctum has turned into a fabled Outcast installation hidden inside the Austera Nube.

Bribes & Missions Offered

Bribes
Missions


Commodities

Imports
Commodity Price
Robotics 37$
Ablative Armor Plating 114$
Black Market Munitions 182$
Hessian Tears 222$
Cracking Catalysts 67$
Energy Field Equipment 47$
Hydrogen 25$
Medical Equipment 70$
Molybdenum 207$
Detroit Light Arms 160$
Titanium 60$
Tungsten 46$
Zinc 55$
Military Surplus 1,154$
Deuterium 261$
Counterfeit Computerware 228$
Boron 47$
Beryllium 40$
Gold 251$
Wildcat Gold 261$
Cobalt 67$
Hydrocarbons 35$
Niobium 126$
Copper 203$
Oxygen 20$
Water 12$
Diamonds 211$
Food Rations 28$
H-Fuel 68$
MOX 51$
Basic Alloy 40$
Super Alloy 124$
Optical Chips 44$
Mining Machinery 35$
Construction Machinery 52$
Pharmaceuticals 49$
Polymers 37$
Optronics 71$
Consumer Goods 52$
Daumann Side Arms 113$
Gallic Enfer Blasters 107$
Black Market Blasters 145$
Bio-Neural Processors 125$
Kemwer Technologies 260$
Volgograd Ordinance 234$
Cryocubes 126$
Black Market Augments 121$
Iridium 233$
Neon 73$
Synth Paste 50$
Aluminium 168$
Industrial Materials 49$
Munitions 56$
Xenobiotic Filters 67$
HazMat Canisters 63$
Shigeakiki 204$
Avionics Systems 9,875$
Interior Systems 8,589$
Propulsion Systems 10,375$
Superstructure Systems 10,777$
Reactor Systems 9,389$
Exotic Systems 19,755$
Xeno Relics 190$
Exports
Commodity Price
Deployable Mining Container 50,000$
Black Market Pharmaceuticals 191$
Toxic Waste 47$
Scrap Metal 12$
Hull Panels 64$
Engine Components 102$
Cardamine 118$
Black Market Light Arms 205$


Ships sold


Ship Class Price
Outcast Gunship Gunboat 1,050,006$
Outcast Destroyer Cruiser 2,710,400$
Outcast Heavy Transport Heavy Transport 1,086,006$
Pirate Transport Transport 426,006$
Pirate Train Train 906,126$
Pilgrim Liner Liner 1,910,000$
Outcast Battlecruiser Battlecruiser 4,905,400$
Outcast Battleship Battleship 7,135,000$
Outcast Dreadnought Dreadnought 7,635,000$


News

[834 AS] Dons applaud Crayter military

MALTA -- 834 -- Crayter and IMG efforts to extract the slave rabble from Freeport 10 have proven to be an amusing diversion. Acting on a plan devised by Dons Wenceslau and Ricci, our warriors allowed the slave transports to slip away while inflicting a devastating toll on their escorts. Tau-37 is now littered with Crayter corpses. Don Ricci applauded Crayter leadership from his Maltese villa. “It’s very impressive, the Republic managed to take a cheap publicity stunt and turn it into a diplomatic crisis,” he noted, referring to the destruction of the liner Nagapasa. “Of course, the best is yet to come.” Many of the slaves aboard Freeport 10 were Liberty Insurgency prisoners of war, trafficked by the LPI; the paraded slaves are living, breathing evidence of Liberty malfeasance.

[833 AS] Decisive Victory Over Stabiline Menace

SIGMA-17 -- 833 -- For decades Atka has been a thorn in the Outcasts’ side. Nuisance became an existential threat with the release of Stabiline - Cryer’s pale imitation of Cardamine. Four years ago we damaged production, but failed to finish the job due to intervention by both the GMG and the Corsairs, who we suspect Cryer had bribed as mercenaries. To ensure success in our current campaign, the Dons committed to a masterful strategy of deception. An attack on the Corsair-occupied Freeport 9 emboldened Zoner Militants to take up arms, prompting the Corsairs to draw in reinforcements from across the Sigmas. While the Zoners spent their lives as a sacrificial distraction, our own ships redeployed to the true objective, achieving Atka’s complete destruction.

[833 AS] Cardamine Shortages

MALTA -- 833 AS -- While the slave rebellion has been crushed after more than a year of fighting, many plantations and their warehouses were burned or severely damaged. Fortunately, the Dons had prepared for this eventuality - the cartels were required to pool supplies to service the distribution network in "maintenance mode". This means maximum emphasis is placed on supplying fully dependent pawns, with Cardamine stocks distributed on a key-by-key basis to ration out supply. Despite these measures, demand for Cardamine skyrocketed, triggering armed conflicts between the various network participants and driving prices to dizzying heights. While we have slowly suppressed these prices as supply recovers, they remain an impediment to orderly market function. The Dons expect production to return to pre-rebellion levels over the next four years as destroyed infrastructure is rebuilt.

[832 AS] Righting Past Wrongs

AUGUSTA -- 832 AS -- The fires of revolt still smolder on Malta, but we have no time to count our losses and mourn our dead. We are forced to steel our hearts and once more rise to defend ourselves from outsiders who would see the Outcasts destroyed.

We of course speak of the Corsairs, who exploited our people's moment of tragedy to seize Freeport 9 as a forward base. The Corsair occupation of the Freeport represents an existential threat to the Maltese people, and their raids upon our very home cannot and will not be tolerated. The Battlecruiser Augusta has led a force into Omicron Theta with orders to destroy the station and its biodomes, disrupt the Corsairs, and annihilate the Artifact trade that funds them.

Already we have won a great victory by striking down the Battleship Fes, with the Battleship Delos surely soon to join it in the grave. The Dons have promised a handsome payment to the cartel of each pilot that kills a Corsair in Omicron Theta.

[831 AS] Corsair Threat Looms over Theta Aggression

IBIZA -- 831 AS -- The barbaric Corsairs have made their move in the Omicron Theta system, seizing control of Freeport 9. While this does remove another Bounty Hunter hive from our borders, it provides the Corsairs with an unacceptable forward staging ground for their own raids.

Ibiza Station has been reinforced with additional guard squadrons and placed on high alert, in case this is the precursor to a larger Corsair fleet movement. Once the current disarray on Malta is resolved, the Cartels will turn their attention to matters of security, and the fleets will be free to strike terror into the hearts of our foes once more.

The Corsairs may feel they have won themselves a great prize in Omicron Theta, but the Freeport is no fortress and a biodome is a fragile thing. The Corsairs say they were forced to act to secure their territory. Soon enough they shall learn that men in glass houses should not cast stones.

[831 AS] Jump Hole Upheaval Causes Chaos

HEISENBERG -- 831 AS -- Jump holes across Sirius have become increasingly volatile and chaotic over the last year, with Professor Sophia Nagel from the Heisenberg Research Station linking the unusual phenomena to the Pulse. The Pulse was an unprecedented blast of hyperspace energy that was detected immediately prior to last year's jump gate Blackout.

Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off.

While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes.

[831 AS] Malta Ablaze!

MALTA -- 831 AS -- A slave rebellion has raged for months on the planet Malta as increasingly-organized rebel slaves have managed to take over some of the more sparsely populated and difficult-to-traverse areas. Our operations have been further complicated by the slaves' acquisition of sensitive planetary defense installations; our own defensive installations have been turned against us!

While it remains unclear how the rebels learned of the orbital installation locations, it is possible that some of the more benevolent masters did not consider their slaves to be a serious security threat and allowed them access to portions of critical infrastructure. The Dons do not know how they will approach this pressing fact, but it is clear that the laxity of their brothers and sisters has allowed the rebellion to put up unexpectedly strong resistance.

Despite this, the slaves themselves seem to realize the futility of their struggle as Outcast forces in Omicron Alpha have managed to disable most of the IMG and CR ships that attempted to smuggle aid and reinforcements to the besieged rebels. As the Outcasts succeed in gaining tactical and strategic superiority and their forces regain lost territory, the end of this rebellion is only a matter of time, blood and sweat.

As a final act of revenge, the slaves aimed their weapons not only against the Outcasts themselves, but also against the reason they were brought here: Cardamine. As such, plantation fires stretch from horizon to horizon across the rural regions of planet Malta.

[831 AS] Slave Uprising on Malta I

MALTA -- 831 AS -- Across the planet Malta, widespread fighting rages as more and more slaves join the rebellion against their Outcast owners. Armed slaves have found it easier to conquer rural solitudes and vast swaths of plantations while the major cities have managed to quell the rebellion in its infancy.

The slave rebellion itself began in the mines of the planet Albegna when the Benitez Cartel executed 200 slaves for sabotaging a mining facility. This cruelty resonated throughout the mining colony, even among the usually trouble-free slaves, and they quickly gained control of the mining facility, including Don Juan Benitez himself, who was to oversee the execution. When the Benitez Cartel learned that their Don had been executed by the slaves instead, they ordered the liquidation of the mining colony.

Although the Albegna mining colony revolt was resolved in less than two weeks, promises by other Dons of 'precautionary measures' across the board, which most slaves interpreted as more mass executions, sparked a widespread slave uprising across Malta. Although the slaves themselves would hardly have been able to resist the well-armed Outcasts, the rebels had the element of surprise in the form of caches of smuggled weapons and other military equipment.

As war rages on planet Malta between desperate slaves and their surprised masters, all Outcast forces from Sirius are recalled to planet Malta to quell the rebellion as quickly as possible. With the IMG and CR taking advantage of weakened Outcast influence in the Tau Region, the question arises as to whether this was all planned by their neighboring foes.

[830 AS] Cardamine Operations Expand In Response To Falling Profits

MALTA -- 830 AS -- The Maltese Cartels are scrambling to increase Cardamine production after a meeting between heads of influential families that revealed a general downturn in their profits, caused by a cascade of issues in our distribution network.

Our smuggling routes have come under increased scrutiny from law enforcement throughout the Sirius Sector, causing an increase rate of failure for our smugglers. The independent smuggling contacts are also increasingly reluctant to continue their work as the risks begin to outweigh the rewards. That in turn, has a secondary effect of making people turn to the filthy Cryer for their Stabiline, a fake remedy for Cardamine withdrawal that we can only describe as snake oil, filling up pockets with false promises.

Dissenting voices painfully point out that this is the first time in a century where we have seen three consecutive quarters of falling profits, with several minor Cartels allegedly facing bankruptcy amid the disaster. The Dons have quickly silenced such assertions, reassuring the public that the Orange Dream will continue to grow.

To address the situation, the Dons demand ever-greater Cardamine yields, launching unprecedented expansion efforts. Steps will be taken to secure the product's shipping. In addition, they plan to import a large labor force from the colonies to bolster the Maltese plantations. This undertaking will require a coordinated effort from Maltese Navy captains, independent smugglers and subverted Sirian assets to acquire and ship slaves en masse to Malta.


Rumors

Outcasts
  • Many of the components we require to manufacture our ships come from Freeport 10, including Ship Hull Panels, Polymers, and Construction Machinery. More is always needed.


  • There are other survivors of the Hispania: the Corsairs. Once long ago we were brethren, the scourge of southern Sirius. The Cardamine and time have changed us. We share very little in common with Corsairs now; they have become more our competitors than anything else.


  • Our most valued Cardamine customer is the Lane Hackers. Not only do they pay us well for our Cardamine, they will barter valuable Trade Lane information for it. I foresee them becoming completely dependent upon us. Soon their Trade Lane technology will be ours.


  • Please excuse me; I am still mourning my son. An ordinary Bounty Hunter from Liberty humbled him. He put too much faith in our innate abilities and the tales that we are naturally the best pilots in Sirius. Well, we are, but it's much more complicated than it appears at first glance. We seem to always know where we are and where our target or destination are, regardless of visibility or interference, but we have to know how to use this sense. My son, as you can see, couldn't harness this and allowed himself to be challenged to a deadly duel in open, unobstructed space.


  • When the Outcasts discovered the other inhabitants of Sirius we wanted to destroy them. We believe that the sabotage of the Hispania was the work of another colony trying to lessen competition for resources. Instead of throwing our lives away in an attack, the Dons decided to seek revenge with the Cardamine. If we can get enough of Sirius hooked, we will rule this space.


  • It's been hard to crack into the Kusari market with our drug, because their strongest crime syndicate, the Hogosha, refuse to deal with us. But we have found allies within Kusari who will help us tap that well. The Golden Chrysanthemums have discovered the allure of Cardamine.


  • How long can our kind actually live? No one knows, not even our foremost geneticists. The fact is, our lives extend with each generation, and we already live much longer than we did a century or two ago. Nevertheless, it's quite peculiar how many of us choose premature death over dying of old age. They want everyone to remember them when they were in their prime, not helpless and on their deathbed. Premature death takes many forms -- from fighting against overwhelming odds to Morte Dormiente -- the Sleeping Death from planet Carinea.


  • Cardamine is shipped directly to Buffalo in New York. New York and Liberty offer us the greatest opportunity to exploit the benefits of a Cardamine addicted people.


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