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Go after the rogue Captain

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Retrive the Fragile Cargo

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Drone Clearence

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Some Easy Escourt duty

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Screw all you rule obeying fools! There are other means of credit procurement!

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Total Members Voted: 3

[Angle]

I say we keep the Flarewise as a mobile base and storage. We need somewhere to keep that reactor and muon turret, after all!

Also, can my character show up now? I wanna supercharge that muon turret!

[Jerick]

Accept, and ask if we can help them with something else.

Also discreetly ask (sideway remark) if they haven't got any armor plates/ whatever stuff we could use lieing around.

Saddly they're a little disorganised at the moment and don't have much in the way of spare armor.

Offer to transfer the prisoners to them.  If they don't want them, turn them over to the military/police.

They gladly accept and promise to look you up if they have anything high paying and dangerous they need done in the future.

What shall we do now with the job completed? I'm thinking head back to the Galvenn trade depot, stock up, get some repairs and go back to Tabien. We can reconnect with the Flarewise and head back out.

"Helios, would you like to be dropped off when we get to Galvenn? I'm curious what you thought of our incursion. You and Urist seemed to work pretty well together."

The Firestar heads to Galveen 4 trade station, it'll take an hour or two arrive.

"I'm not sure to be honest, I might stay. It's certainly more intresting than sitting on a station. I work well with Urist because I happen to quite like him. And our incursion, if you can call it that, was a quick engagment against a number of clear hostiles. Given the firepower they had I'm surprised we didn't take more damage than we did. Do you guys often get into full on missile slogging matches?"

(Apolgies but updates are going to be a bit slower for a while)

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System
Galvenn (known shipyard)

• Galvenn 1, House Laberine Observation post
• Galvenn 2
• Galvenn 3, reseach compound
• Galvenn 4, mining world; Trade station, military base, shipyard
• Asteroid belt

Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits: 12,841
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Moderate damage (frontal)
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: Ready to fire
Weapons: four point defence turrets (energy based)
4 inch repeater cannon turrets x2
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 0 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 29

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x3
• Interceptor x28
• Hammer x2
• Hound x7
• Torpedo x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 1
Crew Morale: Above normal
Crew rations: 314 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Custom manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI Urist into the ship systems)

AIs:2(Urist, Helios/Bill)

Other Craft:
Away

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 180/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds Missile launcher: Interceptor )
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 180/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0 Pilot: Complete and total newbie)
Stealth probe


Hanger fuel tank:2564/4000

Cargo:
 basic ship parts
99 flak shells
Crawler Repair Drone
Advanced tools
damaged cargo loader
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
12 units advanced electronics
3 Fabrication Components
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
fighter parts
muon turret
Patrol ship Reactor

[ansontan2000]

No problemo Jerick.

Buy 20 ravenhawks, and get repairs done.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Patch up the armor if it won't take too long.

[Immortal]

Jerick - Thats fine by me, I need to study for midterms haha.

"We tend to get into a good scrap, that one was the worst yet. Normally its just a few dozen or so fighters and shuttles. We expect to be getting into worse ones as we find higher profile jobs. This ship is a rock though, I'm sure we can handle it."

"Urist, while head for the station can you tweak up the human interface for flight control? I rather not have a repeat of the last fight. Also help whoever wants to learn to fly if you can?"

Have the crew of the ship begin repairs of anything damaged. Also have that muon beam looked over, I want to know the specs and what kind of punch it has.

[Jerick]

Jerick - Thats fine by me, I need to study for midterms haha.

"We tend to get into a good scrap, that one was the worst yet. Normally its just a few dozen or so fighters and shuttles. We expect to be getting into worse ones as we find higher profile jobs. This ship is a rock though, I'm sure we can handle it."

"I see. Speaking of higher profile jobs I have a proposition for you; I have earned the trust of many important people and can get you contracts from the noble houses themselves. Such contracts will pay way more than anything you could find posted in a station but I know from expirence that they tend to be extreamly difficult to complete but if you think the ship and the crew can take it..."

"Urist, while head for the station can you tweak up the human interface for flight control? I rather not have a repeat of the last fight. Also help whoever wants to learn to fly if you can?"

(I'm not sure what you mean here are you talking about the old Knell fighter or the Firestar?)

Have the crew of the ship begin repairs of anything damaged. Also have that muon beam looked over, I want to know the specs and what kind of punch it has.

You managed to avoid everything but armour damage and the Firestar's frontal armour is built to be modular and expendable.
The Muon turret is a light offensive turret that can hit targets at short range(or medium range depending on how it's calibrated) it fires a small beam about the width of a pencil but it loses very little energy when penetrating armour and can cause havok on even a well armoured ship's internals.
You can calibrate it to fire futher but deal less damage.

Spoiler: Galvenn four goods (click to show/hide)

Flak Shells; 6 credits per shell
Gatling Round: 1 credit per 9 rounds
4 inch cannon shells; 6 credits per shell
Point Defence Turret; 580 credits
4 inch repeater cannon; 795 credits
Fuel; 1 per unit
Rations; 1 per unit
Crawler Drone; 230 credits
Signal Missile; 10 credits (a small, dumbfire missile with no payload, but it has a long range and an impressive thermal emssion)
Satellite; 300 credits (stationary, sensor and comns relay)
(The following are used in making things like your flak drone)
Basic Fabrication componenets; 1 per unit (can also be made from scrap using basic tools)
Advanced Fabrication componenents; 3 per unit (can also be made from Basic Fabrication componenets using advanced tools)
Basic electronic componenets; 1 per unit
Advanced electronic componenets; 4 per unit
Advanced tools; 275 credits (this is to get a huge set of tools and machines with many duplicates so people can work simulatenously)
Data Courier; 12,902 credits (fully automous drone, capable of jumping and bring information to neighbouring systems, artifical scarcity)
Armour Plates Basic; 50 credits per unit
Reflective Armour Plates; 90 credits per unit (Better versus energy weapons)
Ablative Armour Plates; 190 credits per unit (Takes less damage from energy weapons)
Reactive Armour Plates; 70 credits per unit (Better versus armor peneitating weapons, solids and explosives, takes more damage from such weapons than regular armour)
Cooled Plate; 45 credits (fragile but makes sensor detection harder, good for withstanding abient heat sources)
Mining Drill; 360 credits
Second hand shuttle: 8,000 credits
Countermeasures; 5 credits each

Black market
Missiles:

• Gilber: Large Payload dumb fire; 35 credits each, 34 available.
• Ravenhawk: Medium Payload, agile, heat seaking, long range; 65 credits each, 1 available.
• Blinder: Sensor chaff, fast, slow to turn guided; 65 credits each, 15 available
• Cluster: 5xInterceptor missile cluster, slow, guided; 136 credits each, 63 available
• Driller Nuke: Nuclear Payload, guided, long range, bores through armor; 1803 credits each, 0 available
• Interceptor: Very small payload, very small size, extreamly fast, very agile, target seeker; 20 credits, 60 available
• Tether Anchor: No payload, very short range, guided, attaches line; 20 credits, 30 available
• Hammer: Large Payload, short range, guided; 65 credits, 29 available
• Guided Remote Mine: Medium Payload, medium range, very slow, can attach to surfaces, proximity activation option; 50 credits, 10 available
• Fighter Hunter:Very small payload, very small size, extreamly fast, very agile, heat seeker; 15 credits, 6 available
• Fighter Destroyer Cluster Missile: 10xFighter Hunter missile cluster, large size, slow, self  guided; 190 credits, 13 available
• Torpedo: Very Large payload, long range, very slow speed, self guided; 98 credits, 8 available

[li]Hound; Small Payload, small size, fast agile, guided; 32 credits, 0 available[/li][/list]

Ilegal tech:
Comns Jammer; 8200 (works for twenty minutes each time it's activated, jams long range only)
Stealth probe; 1200 (difficult to spot on sensors, very fast, very powerful passive sensor array)
Knell fighter; 2400 (one of the most inferior fighters available but in the hands of a skilled pilot it can still be a deadly force)
Halker Fighter/Bomber; 5700 (Competent fighter designed around a single medium sized launcher)
Ravenwind Fighter; 7345 (fast agile fighter mounting three forward weapons and one rear one, armoured)
Vesker Torpedo Bomber; 12,320 (Large but fast ship with four large launchers but little other offensive ability)
Emp; 1500 (disables all non shielded electronic devices within a small radius around your ship, not reusable)
Transponder Replacement; 2000 (All transponders have the ships details hard coded into, but you can allways get these conterfit replacement)
Quiet engine(shuttle); 6000 credits
Quiet engine(Fighter); 3250 credits

You arrive at Galvenn 4 without ceremony and promptly buy all but one of the Ravenhawks available.
You also have a new set of armour modules to replace the damaged ones in the front of the ship, this costs 2000 credits.
Installing them takes a breif few minutes in the station's dry dock.

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System
Galvenn (known shipyard)

• Galvenn 1, House Laberine Observation post
• Galvenn 2
• Galvenn 3, reseach compound
• Galvenn 4, mining world; Trade station, military base, shipyard
• Asteroid belt

Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits: 9,541
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: Ready to fire
Weapons: four point defence turrets (energy based)
4 inch repeater cannon turrets x2
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 0 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 29

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x23
• Interceptor x28
• Hammer x2
• Hound x7
• Torpedo x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 1
Crew Morale: Above normal
Crew rations: 290 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Custom manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI Urist into the ship systems)

AIs:2(Urist, Helios/Bill)

Other Craft:
Away

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 180/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds Missile launcher: Interceptor )
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 180/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0 Pilot: Complete and total newbie)
Stealth probe


Hanger fuel tank:2564/4000

Cargo:
 basic ship parts
99 flak shells
Crawler Repair Drone
Advanced tools
damaged cargo loader
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
12 units advanced electronics
3 Fabrication Components
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
fighter parts
muon turret
Patrol ship Reactor

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Hmm... not sure about those difficult tasks.  I think we should look into it but be very careful about what kind of jobs we accept.

For now, though, lets head back to rendezvous with the Flarewise.  We can figure out what to do with it on the way.  Do we have any idea how much it would be worth if we sold it?

[Angle]

Probably a lot, but I'd rather keep it.

[Immortal]

Agreed. Also lets not buy anything else, we can possibly go to Braben Hall for weapons when we get back. Also what do you guys think of designing a stealth fighter and giving it the muon beam, since we have no free mounts on the Firestar?

"Helios, we're leaving soon to rendezvous with our second ship the Flarewise in the Tabien system. You are more then welcome to come for the trip, you can even hop to the Flarewise for the ride back if you want a lot of processing power to yourself. Oh and a chance of pirates is always in the forecast in that system.."

Jerick - I meant the Firestars human interface.

[Angle]

I wanna see if we can hook that spare reactor up to the muon beam and supercharge it.

[Kadzar]

I've actually been thinking we should work on getting a stealth shuttle, since it could be used for infiltration and such, but I suppose a stealth fighter could be useful for crippling enemy vessels before a battle or strafing them during. Plus it would be cheaper than a shuttle, so I suppose we should go for it now.

[Jerick]

Hmm... not sure about those difficult tasks.  I think we should look into it but be very careful about what kind of jobs we accept.

For now, though, lets head back to rendezvous with the Flarewise.  We can figure out what to do with it on the way.  Do we have any idea how much it would be worth if we sold it?

Buying a second hand cargo ship of the Flarewise's class would cost about 150,000 credits and selling it would get you about 75,000.

Agreed. Also lets not buy anything else, we can possibly go to Braben Hall for weapons when we get back. Also what do you guys think of designing a stealth fighter and giving it the muon beam, since we have no free mounts on the Firestar?

"Helios, we're leaving soon to rendezvous with our second ship the Flarewise in the Tabien system. You are more then welcome to come for the trip, you can even hop to the Flarewise for the ride back if you want a lot of processing power to yourself. Oh and a chance of pirates is always in the forecast in that system.."

Jerick - I meant the Firestars human interface.

"Tabien's still a wonderful place then. Yeah I'll come with you, I don't really have anything better to do and I've something to check on in Tabien,"

"Urist, while head for the station can you tweak up the human interface for flight control? I rather not have a repeat of the last fight. Also help whoever wants to learn to fly if you can?"

Urist can't improve much on the system he put in place when he first came aboard but he does optimise it for use by the crew and the Firestar's unquie command structure.

I wanna see if we can hook that spare reactor up to the muon beam and supercharge it.

You'd probably be able to only get one shot out of it before burning the turret out.

Undocking you make your way back to Tabien, a trip of about six hours, and you make contact with the Flarewise.
In your absense the crew of the Flarewise has fixed up most of the remaining damage.

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System

• Station
• Scrapyard

Galvenn (known shipyard)
Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits: 9,541
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: Ready to fire
Weapons: four point defence turrets (energy based)
4 inch repeater cannon turrets x2
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 0 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 29

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x23
• Interceptor x28
• Hammer x2
• Hound x7
• Torpedo x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 1
Crew Morale: Above normal
Crew rations: 290 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Customised manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system, they've also been optimised for use by the crew of the Firestar)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI Urist into the ship systems)

AIs:2(Urist, Helios/Bill)

Other Craft:
Away

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 180/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds Missile launcher: Interceptor )
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 180/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0 Pilot: Complete and total newbie)
Stealth probe


Hanger fuel tank:2564/4000

Cargo:
 basic ship parts
99 flak shells
Crawler Repair Drone
Advanced tools
damaged cargo loader
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
12 units advanced electronics
3 Fabrication Components
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
fighter parts
muon turret
Patrol ship Reactor

Spoiler: Flarewise (click to show/hide)

Cargo Vessel
Hull damage: fine
Armor: depleted
System Damage: none
Fuel: 3,141/15,000
Weapon Status: fine
Weapons: point defense turret

Crew:10
Crew Morale: normal
Crew rations: 60

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets)
Basic shuttle sysems Suport (You have basic computer control of comn, life support, doors and all basic systems)
Basic Shuttle manuvering and thrusters (The ship's controls are sluggish and crude,  with noticable lag between input and thruster activation)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)



Other Craft
Docked
LR Cargo Shuttle (Fuel: 321/600)


Cargo:
Mainframe(network)
Full of computers(only user interface devices left) and heavy machinary
Fully stocked Medbay

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Lets stop by the station and see what Braben Hall has to offer.

[Immortal]

Did we want to go to Braben hall? I assume we can get lots of ammo, and cheap turrets among other things.

Also have the Firestars OS transfered to the Flarewise. The AI's may move to any ship they want.

Jerick - What kind of computing power does each ship hold, and that mainframe sitting on the Flarewise? I'm looking for an estimate how comfortable and efficient the AI's can be along side the OSs during battle.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Do we want to move the OS?  Each AI can only do one thing at a time, so chances are, someone else will be flying the Firestar from time to time and they'll want an OS to work with.  Not all of us think in binary!