| Destroyer Quezon | |
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| Outcasts | |
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| C-1/2, Tau-44 |
CLASS: Storta
CREW: Unknown
ARMAMENT: Unknown
Built in 833 AS, the destroyer Quezon is a newly constructed Storta-class vessel deployed to Tau-44 with the primary objective of helping the Outcasts establish a Cardamine foothold in Gallia.
For the past decade and a half, the Outcasts have attempted to establish trade partnerships in Gallia but have faced difficulties in opening a new market within the recently discovered House. Despite these challenges, they have found a network of undesirables willing to trade in Cardamine, presenting a business opportunity they deem worth the risk.
As a result, the Quezon was deployed to Tau-44, serving as a resupply and refueling warship while also providing support for Cardamine shipments into Gallia. Though the scale of these shipments is small, making a strong first impression is crucial for expanding the Cardamine trade. The thick nebula in which the destroyer is concealed allows it to frequently use the element of surprise to ambush unsuspecting hostile vessels - primarily Crayter forces - and eliminate them.
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News
| [835 AS] De Angelis son missing |
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NEWCASTLE -- 835 -- Following the disappearance of his youngest son, Don Liviano De Angelis has dispatched the renown Dardi Squadron to Newcastle. Arnold De Angelis had joined the deployment of the Battlecruiser Bastia to enforce Outcast influence in northern Bretonia, and ensure alternate smuggling routes remained open. Arnold vanished after departing to probe nearby IMG mining sites in the Tyne Ice Field. Dardi Squadron under the command of signore Rosolino Nerio has vowed to locate the Don’s son, while threatening “a reckoning unlike that Bretonia has ever known” in the event he had been harmed. |
| [833 AS] Decisive victory over Stabiline menace |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
| [831 AS] Cartels clash on Xeno issue |
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MALTA -- 831 -- The Council of Dons have summoned Liviano De Angelis to answer for his family’s dealings with Liberty’s Xenos. Don Benitez sharply chastised the arrangement, arguing it undermined the Council’s decision to punish the Xenos for their earlier actions. Giving an impassioned speech before the Dons, De Angelis argued that there were already signs of growing Cardamine addiction within Xeno ranks, projecting they would be fully under Outcast control within a decade. In a humiliating setback for Don Benitez, De Angelis’ argument swayed the Council, with a vote narrowingly ratifying his approach. |
| [831 AS] Caught in their own trap? |
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BARRIER GATE -- 831 -- Word is the Xenos have a Cardamine problem. Recruiting from the bottom of Liberty society, most Xenos lived in poverty and decided to lash out. Now they’ve got a foot in the door with the Cardamine trade and their leaders are having issues keeping the grunts out of the goods, after that first taste of luxury. Witnesses report one such incident aboard Barrier Gate, after a Xeno executed a green wingman who’d used the product he was supposed to be shipping. Even if you’re only in the trade for business, the GC and Rogues can tell you there’s always a catch in the contract. |
| [830 AS] Cardamine operations expand in response to falling profits |
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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. |
| [829 AS] Balancing supply and demand |
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MALTA -- 829 -- Previous quarters saw a sharp increase in labor exported from Liberty, boosting Cardamine yields. Per dose pricing has dropped as supply temporarily desynchronizes with demand. Equally problematic, Liberty Rogue shipments continue to be lost in Liberty to Xeno interference. Don Liviano De Angelis has suggested killing two birds with one stone by dealing the Xenos into the trade. Competition would boost demand, allowing us to hike prices. Don Benitez has scorned the proposal as “foolish”, saying it would inspire insolence in our lessers. |
| [828 AS] Underworld meeting goes sour |
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BARRIER GATE -- 827 -- Patrons were forced to dive for cover when a meeting on Barrier Gate’s Orange Deck went south. A delegation of Xenos met with Outcasts to “bury the hatchet” over recent attacks on the Cardamine trade. “I didn’t hear what they said, but the Outcast Donna laughed in their face, then all hell broke loose”, said Lucky Stevens. “It was a massacre. The Xenos didn’t stand a chance.” The Xenos recently knocked out Rochester Base, with most guessing they’re trying to cut into the drugs trade. One anonymous Xeno noted, “eventually they’ll see it’s better to have us in the tent and pissing out, than out the tent and pissing in.” |
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