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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

[Immortal]

Erm...
Don't we already have 300 missile tubes?

Yes on the firestar.. which is our flagship for attacking, it can't always be watching our cargoship. Five to Ten tubes on the cargo ship should be more then suffiencent to hold its own for a short time because it has some point defense.. you can disagree but we need to add more defense to the cargo ship, I want it out in the scrap yard working, not hiding in port from possible pirating.

[Jerick]

I think we should have the cargo ship outfitted with some missile tubes while we jump? How much does say 2000 credits fetch?
Can you describe the cargo loaders, are they bipedal, quadraped, wheeled?
Also could we set up the factory machinery to make us fabrication parts? If we can have them set up a line or something.

I think those crates are done for. Apologize and ask him what happened.

You can buy four missile tubes for 2000 (counting installation).
They're fully automatic compact wheeled truck beds with an in built crane.
Not really, you'll need a kind of foundary setup to mass produce fabrication parts.
The factory machinery is mostly packaging and food processing.

"I don't know, we got hacked...we're trying to trace it's source. It's from some where close though"

In other news the merchant reports that he's got his jump calculations to work as is ready to jump when ever you are.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Alright.  Lets jump.

[Armok]

Are any of the Firestars many tubes movable to it any easier?

[Angle]

Hold up, don;t jump yet. I think our hacker might just be aboard that merchantship.

[Jerick]

Are any of the Firestars many tubes movable to it any easier?

The Firestar's tubes are built into it's hull so removing them intact would be difficult.

"Damn it, look we can't wait around here looking for the hacker (and if it's you I'll be pissed.) Keep out of trouble,"
With that the destroyer fires up it's engines and jumps out.

[Deamonpies]

Suggest that we and the merchant ship jump to where we are going.

[Immortal]

Alright, have the cargo-ship outfitted with the tubes, I'm sure our pay for this job will pay it off. Lets jump.

[Angle]

No, don't. That's a terrible return for the money we'd spend.
Maybe get some unmanned fighter instead? The cargo ship has lot's of space, and with that mainframe, we'd have lot's of computers to run them.

hmm, we could get a knell fighter or two and modify them to be unmanned, It's be even more expensive than the missile tubes, but a better return over all, I think.

Unless maybe we get the missile tubes and use those cluster missiles, that could be a decent return. We'd still only have four shots, which really is not enough to do much of anything with. on the other hand, neither is two knell fighters. Maybe we shouldn't get any of this at all, just have the cargo-ship steer clear of trouble for now.

For those wondering, heres the tabien pricelist as it was last posted, it probably should be posted more frequently.

Spoiler: Tabein Station goods (click to show/hide)

Pricelist:
Flak Shells; 6 credits per shell
Gatling Round: 1 credit per round
4 inch cannon shells; 5 credits per shell
Point Defense Turret; 600 credits
4 inch repeater cannon; 825 credits
Fuel; 1 per unit
Rations; 1 per unit
Crawler Drone; 260 credits
Signal Missile; 10 credits (a small, dumbfire missile with no payload, but it has a long range and an impressive thermal emission)
Satellite; 300 credits (stationary, sensor and comms relay)
(The following are used in making things like your flak drone)
Basic Fabrication components; 1 per unit (can also be made from scrap using basic tools)
Advanced Fabrication components; 3 per unit (can also be made from Basic Fabrication components using advanced tools)
Basic electronic components; 1 per unit
Advanced electronic components; 4 per unit
Advanced tools; 300 credits (this is to get a huge set of tools and machines with many duplicates so people can work simultaneously)

Black market
Missiles:

    Gilber: Large Payload dumb fire; 35 credits each, 3 available.
    Ravenhawk: Medium Payload, agile, heat seeking long range; 65 credits each, 2 available.
    Blinder: Sensor chaff, fast, slow to turn guided; 65 credits each, 0 available
    Cluster: 5xInterceptor missile cluster, slow, guided; 136 credits each, 6 available
    Driller Nuke: Nuclear Payload, guided, long range, bores through armor; 1803 credits each, 0 available
    Interceptor: Very small payload, very small size, extremely fast, very agile, target seeker; 15 credits, 7 available
    Tether Anchor: No payload, very short range, guided, attaches line; 20 credits, 8 available
    Hammer: Large Payload, short range, guided; 65 credits, 2 available
    Guided Remote Mine: Medium Payload, medium range, very slow, can attach to surfaces, proximity activation option; 50 credits, 0 available


Illegal tech:
Comms 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)
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 always get these counterfeit replacement)

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Hold up, don;t jump yet. I think our hacker might just be aboard that merchantship.

Or one of the pirates that got away.  Perhaps they were here to intercept the destroyer, but we got here first.

It would be pretty brazen of the hacker to ask the guys who've been hunting him to escort him out of the system...

[Angle]

He might not be in command of the merchant, just a passenger. But eh, whatever, let's jump.

[Kadzar]

Hmm. Would it be possible to load missile tubes in combat? Because, in that case, we could buy more missiles for the cargo ship than we have tubes for and just fire them off as need. If they need to be externally loaded we could spread them out enough that one or more can be loaded while others are firing.

[Jerick]

The Firestar and it's escort jump and with a bright flash you find yourselves in orbit of a different star.
Urist deccerlates the ship and brings it along side the merchant ship.
This is the Galvenn system, Galvenn 1,2 and 3 have little more than outposts on their surface but Galvenn 4 has a large number of mining settlements and more than one station in orbit.
Compared to Tabien it is a practical hub of activity and is the finial destination of the merchant vessel.
House Laberine has few ships which patrol this system making it noticably more secure than the lawless garbage fields of Tabien.

On our way back have the Firestar crew work on possibly strapping a single box missile launcher to the remote fighter (1 missile hanging, think current jet fighters).

During the flight to Galvenn 4 some of the crew ponder how to add a launcher to the knell fighter.
The solution they come up with requeires little modifcations to the fighter and is an improvement they add in under an hour.
However due to the constraints of mounting a launcher on a small fast craft like a fighter it can only launch small(or smaller missiles)

Galvenn four has an orbiting drydock, a trade+ refining complex and house Laberine base all in orbit.
You and the merchant dock at the trade station where you recieve payment for an escourt complete.

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, 21 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; 200 credits, 90 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, 10 available

[li]Hound; Small Payload, small size, fast agile, guided; 32 credits, 7 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

Hmm. Would it be possible to load missile tubes in combat? Because, in that case, we could buy more missiles for the cargo ship than we have tubes for and just fire them off as need. If they need to be externally loaded we could spread them out enough that one or more can be loaded while others are firing.

Yes you can load them in combat.
Also you're not limited to just four it's 500 hundred credits per tube.
(When you guys decide what you what the last order to the cargoship then that will have been the last order sent, theres no real point in waiting round any longer)

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

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:9322
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: fine
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: 24

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x2
• Interceptor x10
• Hammer x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 0
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 into the ship systems)

AIs:1(Urist)

Other Craft:

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 200/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds)
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 115/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2,Missile launcher:  Missile Countermeasures: 0)

Hanger fuel tank:2649/4000

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

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Moar Ravenhawks!  I say we buy all 21.

[Jerick]

Ravenhawks bought for 1365 credits

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

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:7957
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: fine
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: 24

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x23
• Interceptor x10
• Hammer x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 0
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 into the ship systems)

AIs:1(Urist)

Other Craft:

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 200/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds)
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 115/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2,Missile launcher:  Missile Countermeasures: 0)

Hanger fuel tank:2649/4000

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