The History of the Lupus isnt a long one, but of it’s crew, that’s a long story.
Captain Charles Dalen; Was a star ship engineer on New York, creating ships for the Liberty Navy and Police. Many of the ships that was made for the nomad wars, where engineered by Charles, many of the changes and uppgrades, refits amongst other things where supervized by him. He had a quiet life outside his work, he had two children and a lovely wife, wich he all adored and loved with all of his heart. After the war, he was instructed to supervize a new kind of ship, a ship that was going to hold alien technology. As Charles always have done, is to follow orders. He spent months on the ship and it’s new systems, but when he had costructed a prototype it all turned against him. The liberty authorities instructed a covert branch to arrest Charles and his family, it turned out that the prototype wasnt legal and the authorities, wanted all proof gone of it’s existence. That included Charles and his family, he was taken to a prison camp, to be held until execution. It took 2 months, he hadnt seen his family for the entire time. Then he was informed of his wife, and children where killed. He went numb, he had nothing left. Nothing at all. And it was all thanks to the Liberty authority, the only things he felt was greif and hate.
At the day of his own execution, the station he was on where attacked by an unkown force. Every soldier and officer went to their ships, Charles took his chance to attempt to escape. He ran to the docking hangar, there he saw who had attacked the station. It was the Liberty Rogues, they had attacked the station in hopes of releasing some of their pilots from captivity. They helped Charles to escape, in return he would help them refit their own ships, to better counter the Liberty Navy and police. He agreed.
That was ten years ago, hes been a rogue engineer and a rogue pilot, piloting a Wolfhound attacking convoys as they come close to theyre trade lanes. He spent the better part of those ten years building and working on a Rogue Gunboat, a specialy fitted one. Greater living space and the capability of self survival, without any greater need for repairs or dependency on frequent visits to stations. He even got to know alot of rogues that wish to leave Liberty Space and roam free, free of commitment and responsibilities. After ten years ”The Lupus” was finished, Lupus after a ancient language wich means Wolf, the starship was going to be the first of it’s kind. And the Flotilla he was to join, well that’s another story.
Rogue Gunboat Class, The-Lupus. Flagship
Crew manifest 20 Crewman 20 Passengers 1Captain – Captain Charles Dalen 1Second in Command – Commander Eric Douglas Navigation Officer – Lieutenant Commander Erina Stephenson Tactical Officer – Lieutenant Chris Harker Provisions Officer – Ensign Maria Gonzales Communications Officer – Ensign Lars Hendriksson
And 14 crewman to handle the other ship systems and functions, onboard is also the crewmans families. The ships cargo holds can hold alot of provisions, enough for the ship to be independent for months.
Most of the ships crew are young, and doesnt have families yet. Alot of the older crewmen have brought their families, the largest family has Sergeant Ralen, his wife and his four sons make up a large portion of the ships crew and passengers. Ralen is also the officer in charge of the five man team that is responsible for boarding and defense when it comes to infantry.
Charles Dalen, Captain of the Rogue Gunboat, The Lupus.
It's been weeks since we left Liberty Space, alone and without having to stop at any station. Weve been attacking Convoys and halted transports for money, the Liberty Navy have been on our tail during the entire trip. In california we faced a Cruiser, wich we eluded in the asteroid field. A day later we faced of against a Liberty Gunboat, much superior to us in many ways, but we eventually, after a very interesting fight, destroyed it's engines and weapon systems. We where severly damaged and had to dock at Alcatraz Depot, thats where we met Captain D'Ghor, a Outcast pirate, piloting a Rogue Transport. After some discussions we decided to join his fleet and assist as the Flagship and main defender and assaulter.
Now uppgraded with new armor, new Outcast weaponry and resuplied, i intend to take the Lupus into Outcast systems. In order to speak to the Outcast leaders, hopefully we can come to an arrangement.
Charles Dalen, Captain of the Rogue Gunboat, The Lupus
During one of our raids in an Omega system we dicovered a badly damaged Order Ship that directly when discovered us they opened fire. It's weapon systems where probably Malfunctioning, since they only fired a few shots, when we ordered the ship to cease fire it tried to flee. Of course we stopped their engines by firing a Cruise Disruptor and halted their advance. The ship was dead in space and all of it's systems, besides the life suport system, was disabled. The Ship captain started a self destruct sequence in order to stop us to gain any suplies or weaponry of their ship, i ordered Sergeant Ralen and his team to board the Ship and stop the Self destruct sequence. While our small boarding ship left The Lupus the Order Ship evacuated all of it's crew, and the life pods flew of towards the nearest Jump Hole.
Ralen and his men went to the Engineering section in order to halt the Self Destruct, it took nearly 10 minutes for Ralens team to find and disable the self destruct sequence but they handled the situation well.
During the next few hours we sent over teams to investigate and secure any supplies they had left, the entire ship was picked clean and nothing outside the ordinary was found. Food and water, some oxygen tanks and H-Fuel. But i had decided the biggest price was to be the ships turrets, a special kind of weaponry, alot of energy was needed in order to make them work, but i was sure i could direct energy from the shield to the weapon system to handle the new turrets.
It took 2 days to get the turrets from the Order ship and attach the turrets to our own, it was alot of work, but im sure The Lupus can handle them.
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