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- This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Outcasts
| Crimson Cross
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| Origin
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 Outcasts
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| Affiliation
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Outcasts
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| Alignment
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unlawful
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| Profile
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| Date of founding
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820 AS A.S.
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| Founder(s)
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unknown
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| Current leader(s)
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Izek-Fernando Armando
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| Base of operations
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Planet Malta, Omicron Alpha
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| Primary role
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| Spread the holy faith of the Gods
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| Secondary role
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| Paint the Sigmas red
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Brief History
While the Outcasts have been viewed as a single entity from those on the outside, the true nature is much more complex. With families such as the Contari, La Torre, and Armando, power was always a valued commodity that many families sought amongst the Outcasts of the northern Omicron systems. In the olden days of Outcast expansion, many families sought their fortune amongst the stars, or in the cultivating of Cardamine. A small group of families though sought power in another way: The power of the holy faith, or what would better be known as the “Crimson Cross”.
Lead by the La Torre familia, this holy order sought power through the Gods rather than wealth. Rising in prominence since the early days of Outcast expansion, the Crimson Cross were devout believers and requested missionaries of their order be sent with the varying colonists and explorers, in order to spread the word of the Cross. Eventually becoming one of the most powerful of families with their influence, they soon attempted to create an Outcast ecclesiarchy. This, as history has shown, was not without obstacles and disagreements from the other families vying for power. As their influence increased, the Cross eventually had their ranks filled with holy knights of the Cross, whom both fought internally to protect the Crimson Cross, as well as protecting the external heretics whom sought to end their spread of faith of the Gods.
In the year 719 A.S., Crimson Cross expansion eventually brought the attention of the heathens, or publicly known as the Corsairs. With a combined effort of multiple Corsair organizations, which was thought impossible by the Cross, surgical strikes hit them hard and fast. With most of the holy fleet destroyed, including 75% of the Archbishops and Cardinals whom in their pompous attitude thought their faith would protect them, the remainder of the Crimson Cross fled back to their home on Malta. The La Torre family devastated, faith amongst the other families fell, and their ability at controlling their wealth and influence was all but ruined. This moment was when the Armando family struck.
A family of politicians as well as believers in the Gods, they saw the falling of the La Torre family as a sign of weakness and disapproval of the Gods. They saw the La Torre family as unworthy of power, unworthy as the servants of the holy faith. Using their own influence in swaying other prominent figures within the families of Malta, the heads of the Armando family hatched a plan to once and for all remove the La Torre’s from their positions. Within a period of two days, they struck when the majority of the Cross were in conclave, praying to the Gods for forgiveness and help. As the last Cardinal fell, the faithless ones as the Armando’s named them, were at last purged.
Over the years, the Armando family had the incredibly large task of rebuilding the Crimson Cross from it’s near death. Revamping the holy faith in an almost totalitarian organization, the Armando family was ruthless in their devotion and faith in bringing the teachings to all those they encountered. Eventually the Armando family rose in prominence behind the Crimson Cross as one of the three most powerful families of the Outcasts.
As the families of the Outcasts rose and fell, the holy faith remained, it’s servants devout in their belief that the Crimson Cross would rise again. Rise it did, and in the year 820 A.S., the Crimson Cross reformed it’s organizational structure and ascended to their seat amongst the dealings and workings of the Outcast nation. Rebranding the Crimson Cross into an ecclesiarchy of sorts, the now feared holy knights of the Cross, under the control of the newly formed Crimson Council, began their plan for purging of heretics and those who deny the Gods and the holy faith.
Over the course a year, their ranks increased as well as production of a new fleet of the Cross. As many fighter craft were constructed, the Crimson Council unanimously agreed on retrofitting the old flagship of the Cross, the “Syracuse”, which lay dormant in the graveyard near Cartagena shipyard. Once the Syracuse is completed, the Crimson Council plan on launching their holy knights amongst Sirius, establishing what the Cross have already named the “Magnum Defaeco”, or the Great Purge.
Diplomacy
Zone of Influence
Omicron-85
- The Corsica Outer Sanctum is under direct control of Administration, in addition to key members of the Maltese Navy, and is governed by a separate set of laws and regulations in addition to the laws of the Maltese Nation.
- All vessels identifying as Outcasts are granted access to Bastia Station.
- Foreign units are only granted access to Omicron-85 on a case-to-case basis. Any foreigner granted access must be escorted by a pilot belonging to entities listed under 1-3 at any given time. Any
- independent travel without escort is highly forbidden and punishable by the immediate destruction of the vessel and all data gathered on the Omicron-85 system.
- All unauthorized entry into the Omicron-85 system is considered trespassing on military ground, and warrants the immediate execution of the trespasser.
Other systems
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