In reply to PO Gun Da-bin (msg # 920):

"Information received. We will pass that on to all patrols. You take damage in the meeting? You good to get home?"

We are good for home... we did take some damage, but have repaired most of it... Good Hunting.


OK, lets jump...

Kat will jump the ship....

In reply to Katherine 'Kat' Steele (msg # 924):

They wish you luck and strength, and you jump to Aquitaine, where you will need to refuel. As usual, the jump takes a week.

Once you arrive, you find the system is now guarded by a modified captured warship, operated by Kalashnikov. They recognize you and welcome you back.

We'll land here to let Meir and his wife off... get fresh food and refuel. We'll make sure the guard ship gets the pirates data, such a we have.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 926):

The gaurd thanks you for the data, and says they will be on the lookout for them.

Meir and his wife are not particularly welcome back for more than a visit, though they can arrange to have the ship refueled.

[OOC: If Meir wants, they can get off on Aquitaine, or not. I will ask him...]

"home sweet home, eh?" he said with ironic overstatement. It was really just more the ship, but Duke felt glad to see some familiar faces - or ships... or both. At least here he'd be able to get resupplied and make sure that the Dastavka didn't run out of anything essential.

After watching them enter the familiar  system, Duke headed back to his quarters for family time.

Kat piloted the ship to a landing. "So now we can restock and take a little break? Can we armor up the ship more?"

In reply to Katherine 'Kat' Steele (msg # 929):

"Isn't the plan to do that at Aegis? Well, take the break, anyway."

Yes, the major ship repairs will be done at Aegis, not here, but we can replenish our supplies here, they were getting pretty sparse if you hadn't noticed.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 931):

Yep, and supplies are readily refilled, to the brim! Kalashnikov has established an agency on the planet to handle this, and businesses is booming! You learn that a peace agreement has been signed with the Labrysian government, at last, and there is now finally peace.

Cyril asks why Meir seems less welcome here now... lets say he investigates a little.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 933):

Cyril is told that his anti-Labrysian approach has fallen out of favour since the war ended, and many Labrysians (all from the 'rebel' colonies, of course) have helped rebuild the world.

Understood, it is hard to forget who destroyed your friends and family, and he did not get to see them aid in rebuilding. He may suffer with his hate for years to come.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 935):

"Oh, don't get us wrong, many of us still hate the government troops. But ironically that is something we have in common with the rebel friends, who have seen similar atrocities to their own families by them as well."

Well those are gone as I understand it...

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 937):

Well, not gone, but no longer at war. They relate to you major events in your absence.

By the end of July, the last colony planet was under rebel control and the Yuri was setting up a blockade there with the rebel fleet when the government finally took to the negotiation table. Their new ships destroyed and most of their off-world resources lost, they have agreed to a ceasefire on the following conditions:
   -Rebels and humans do not enter the Labrysian system.
   -Government forces do not leave the Labrysian system.

The rebels only agreed to this after the government allowed any who wanted to leave within the next month to do so. An extraordinary logistics effort was carried out over August, with nearly 10 million were evacuated to Hibernia, before being transported to various other colonies after the end of the month.
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So this is at some point in the future, when DASTAVKA has been repaired and upgraded as possible?

Wow, we are so good.

Well you are certainly good... and we seem to be doing well too.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 941):

GM fail, sorry. Post prepared on the assumption you were not shot down, and not modified, as it is now August! Sorry, post updated...

In reply to Fate (msg # 942):

OK, so we AREN'T a part of this evacuation... just heading to Aegir to get fixed.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 943):

Yes, it has already happened.

Once fueled and restocked, we depart of Aegir taking Meir or not as he wishes.

On arrival we report to the company HQ, telling them of ur discoveries, the Pirates and our damage. I put in an extra good word about Duke's magical rebuilding of the ship and Kat's superior piloting and assistance in over running the pirates base. I suggest it may well be worth putting a small station there to  buy agricultural goods and deprive the pirates of a base.

In reply to Cyril Zotmund (msg # 945):

News of another habitable base as well as a new species causes considerable excitement, though the military reacts to the news of the pirates with a predictable request for a sizable ship to return there immediately. The Jeremiah Jones, a Crocket class vessel and the now aging Tsushima Straights, a modified Karl Marx Carrier, are dispatched within a week with the Lightning Class merchantman Buffalo Bill, with a cargo of weapons, tools and potential colonists. Taking copies of your charts, and details of the pirate vessel, they note that missiles will not be terribly effective against such a vessel due to the number of beam weapons reported, so the Buffalo Bill is rearmed first with an array of beam weapons and a small number of sandcasters.

The Dastavka is repaired, taking two weeks, and resupplied. Since the war is over, the shortage of missiles is not felt as acutely, though the numbers are still being built back up, and resources diverted to modifying captured vessels is making the missile manufacturing slower, but the ever present threat of the Vilani now seems to have returned afer the more immediate war was resolved. Still, a joint force of new Larbysian rebel shots and a couple of Terran Warships, most notably Andrews Friendship class Cruiser, a modified 10,000 dTon vessel based on a rebuilt Labrysian Cruiser. Since it's construction, Kalishnkov enterprises have been contracted to provide another of these vessels for Chrysolite, and then a third similar vessel to replace the original in monitoring the Labrysian government treaty. Basically, you understand that though the Labrysian war is over, it is still very much to Kalishnikov's advantage that continued preparations for war are maintained in anticipation of a Vilani war. Chrysolyte is draining funds, many of them landing in Kalishnikov coffers, to build up their fleet, and Andrew is only too happy to oblige them. News of another sentient race, therefore, is welcome, but the low tech level of the race and the news of the pirates does drain the enthusiasm.

It is perhaps not surprising that all senior officers are called into a meeting with Andrew as your ship nears completion. It seems that the whole planet, including his new offices, are one giant building site, so you are asked to come to the Yuri. The aged warship bears scars from both modifications and battles, but nonetheless, for some of you, it brings back memories.