The Orbitals

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This is an unofficial player group. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Junkers..

The Orbitals
Origin	Planet Leeds - Bretonia
Affiliation	Junkers
Alignment	Quasi-Legal
Recruitment	http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=95272
Profile
Date of founding	815 A.S.
Founder(s)	unknown
Current leader(s)	Thomas Halle
Base of operations	Planet New London, Planet Cambridge
Identification
Tag(s)	[*O]-
Primary role
Survive, Get back Bretoanian citizenship
Secondary role
Evacuee citizens from Leeds, Sabotage Gallic invasion.

The Orbitals:

Who are the Orbitals?

Sirius has been always a dangerous place, where not everybody nor all collectives are strong enough to take privileged positions in their respective societies. The weakest communities had to use their imagination rather than their strength in order to survive in an hostile environment. An "orbital" is a term lately used to describe a Junker who live in the Orbit of most populated planets of Bretonia, and eventually big stations. In fact, are "allowed" inhabitants of a Planet or system but haven't yet (or never will have) the Citizenship of such place.

The orbital population is mainly composed by "conscientious objectors" from Leeds that refused to be conscripted to fight against Gallic troops and unemployed citizens who refused to relocate their homes outside Bretonian traditional borders like Planet Gran Canaria or Planet Sprague. Since they refused to follow such protocols, that group of citizens rendered without legal citizenship. Additionally some other small collectives like immigrants and political exiles have joined them in their new life.

A Premature exodous Chronology

Year (A.S.)	Event
814	The war between Bretonia and Kusari starts. BAF starts to redact an emergency protocol in case Planet Leeds have to be evacuated. Several riots at Leeds. Citizens are afraid of the direction it is taking the war.The prices of several commodities reach record highs. Leeds starts to evacuate it's first citizents. Major factories are being rellocated to other parts of Bretonia. The unemployment level of Leeds grows quickly, seems the factories are being moved faster than humble citizens. During the trip to New London, the place from where the refuges will be rellocate, Bretonian authorities explain to the evacuees that they will be rellocated outside Bretonian traditional borders like Planet Sprague or Planet Gran Canaria. A significant part of the citizens awaiting at New London's orbit are upset by this announcement.
815	Some maverick parties organize an assembly in order to find an alternative to the migration outside Bretonia, they conclude that they will remain within Bretoanian borders and will work to be accpeted as a "normal" citizens in Planet New London or Planet Cambridge. Most of those newcomers from Leeds that have a ship refit them to make room for the new waves of war refuges arriving from Leeds front. An autonomous economy starts to grow at New London's Orbit. The population spread thorugh the orbit in attempt to not become a crowded camp.
816	First Orbitals arrive at Cambridge system, looking for comodities being needed at New London's "orbital camps" The Orbitals spreads even more throught Bretonian house. Some of them even settle Cambridge Orbit, but BPA proceed to evict such newcomers.
817	The war between Bretonia and Gallia starts. Kusari and Bretonia sign peace. Kusari emperor is trapped within Bretonia "side"
818	Those who refused to leave Bretonia to Planet Sprague realize that Bretonian crown don't have planned to let them be citizens at Cambridge or New London. A loophole is found in Bretonian codex by a civil rights professor from Cambridge, seems that orbitals will have a chance to remain within Bretonia borders, even if this means become space citizens instead of live in Planets.
819	...

The Orbital way of life

While the wars between different House took place, a lot of population became war refuges, or even slaves. They had almost no word in a world of conflict and war. The strongest ones managed to survive but the weakest ones were condemned to hard works, or even to starve in crowded border stations, awaiting to obtain a Citizenship card.

Is in 818 when a Bretonian Lawyer called Mathew Halle discovered a loophole in the Bretonian laws. Such loophole can be found in Bretonian codex regarding to the Planet and space definition. Meanwhile a "Planet" as a lawful concept is a space entity with mass and it's breathable atmosphere, the "space" is described as all the volume outer to space entities, including breathable or not atmosphere. In none of this two definitions the lawyer couldn't found a legal "owner" rendering the unbreathable part of an atmosphere, considered independent in terms of citizenship.When this new travelled around the Neural-net were more than one refuge and immigrant who deployed it's home in this places taking advantage of a protected place and low but natural gravity while, at the same time, abstaining to wait for a legal citizenship. During some years a couple of trials and judgements have failed in favor of the Bretonian house, making again, some communities without legal defence and forcing them to be refuges again, in the best of cases.

In mid 818 several "orbital" communities from different secotrs take conscience of each other again and build a common neural-net and a lawyer section in order to defend their mutual interests, trying to regain it's right to live in peace. Meanwhile the community started to work as a syndicate helping vessels of all kind to unload and load cargo from local bases to ships or from ships to docking rings. Some of them have really developed great logistic skills.While the Bretonian Crown, have planned to "clean" this "problem" the Orbitals have earned some trust among the captains of merchant vessels so that now this community is being to be seen as a necessary cheap labor force. Additionally to this, Bretonian citizens knows that the most part of Orbital population comes from Leeds, rendering almost impossible to extradite that community since this could generate several civilian riots.

Nowadays, the Orbitals not only work as a lifters in different planets but also as a wreck recyclers in planet's derbies, or scrap collectors when a brawl take place. In hard times they even pay for pirated cargo to the pirates and smuggle it to local markets or they do business with counterfeit software.

A different society - The Floating districts

Long away from being a centralized and organized society, this community is a scattered and heterogeneous one. Most of people lives in Floating districts wich normally are refitted old ships that were at once transport ships. Some ones, the lucky ones, even lives in repaired liners.Those floating districts are like towns where usually the poeple knows each other and have strong relations between them. It's not like a cold city where every one make his own way. In a Floating distric the problem of the neigbour is the problem of the entire distric in a few minutes.

Those districs are like small autonomous towns. Towns with an economy, a population (sometimes with a unique accent), it's manners, it's mayor ... In a bigger scale, the floating districts form a net of small communities conncected via a common neuralnet.

Diplomacy

Faction	Relationship
Junkers	Friendly

Ships

Combat ships:

CSV Freighter Collector Very Heavy Fighter Recycler Super Heavy Fighter Gitano Light Fighter Bull Dog Heavy Fighter

Service ships:

CSF Freighter Salvager Frigate Transport/Gunboat Hybrid Repair Ship Repair Ship

Transport ships:

Clydesdale Heavy Freighter Percheron Heavy Transport Firefly Civilian Transport Pirate Train Transport

Floating Districts:

Slave Liner Slave Liner Prison Liner Slave Liner

Links

Basic Links:

Feedback
Recruitment
Bretonian wide service advertisment

Communication channels with other factions/Individuals (In rolepley, only visible by parties involved):

First contact with ALG
First formal contact with Bretonian authorities