[Official Event] Stuttgart Showdown

[jammi]

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Stuttgart Showdown
Stuttgart, Cologne, Hamburg, New Berlin, Sigma-13, Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu
Convoy interception event

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Farmer's Alliance vs LWB

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DATE & TIME

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Sep 29, 19:30 UTC

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OVERVIEW

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In the aftermath of the Rheinland Civil War, Imperial fighters formerly affiliated with the LWB felt abandoned and betrayed. The government they had fought for failed to follow through on their promises to evict Synth from Stuttgart, caving to basic economic reality over ideological purism. Before long, many took up arms again - making a deal with the devil in the process. Envoys from Rheinland went to Kusari to beg the Farmer's Alliance for aid, stressing their mutual goal in destroying Synth's agricultural empire.

The Alliance agreed, however there were strings. The LWB were not equal partners in this relationship; the FA provided weapons, ships and credits, scrupulously laundered to remove Samura's fingerprints. But they also called the shots. FA commanders were installed, and local LWB insurgents quickly found that they were little more than pawns, protecting the interests of Kyushu rather than the farmers of Stuttgart. Resentment slowly simmered, but came to a boil through the Treaty of Oerlikon. This free trade agreement allowed Gallic foodstuffs to flood into Rheinland, instigating a fierce price war with Synth.

Synth is burning cash hand over fist to lock Gallic agricorps out of the Rheinland market. This suits the Farmer's Alliance perfectly well, as the increased focus on competition within Rheinland is throttling exports to Kusari. The FA have explicitly banned the LWB from targeting Gallic food shipments due to this. It is having a devastating effect on the few remaining independent farmers of Stuttgart who don't have the reserves for this race to the bottom. Resentment becomes rage. Already there have been instances of fragging. FA commanders unexpectedly killed when munitions detonate aboard their ships, or components fail.

The Farmer's Alliance feel their control is slipping - they need to make an example. That example comes when Sabine Schroder stabs to death a Farmer's Alliance technician aboard Darmstadt. She is subdued and dragged away to a moored transport. The local Alliance commander declares that she is to be transported to Kagoshima Depot, where the Alliance's Elders will render judgement - likely a public execution. Schroder becomes a lightning rod for the LWB's resentment, impotence and rage. The crews of the cruisers Schwarzwald and Greifswald revolt, vowing to free Schroder and liberate their movement from Kusari's yoke.

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DETAILS

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Incentives:

• A Farmer's Alliance Raba frigate will be controlled by a staff member. It will depart Darmstadt carrying a Prisoner, and follow the convoy route through Jump Holes to Kyushu.
  
• Farmer's Alliance and LWB will have mutual PvP bounties on each other.
  

Rule Changes:

• Farmer's Alliance and LWB will have a 10 minute respawn timer in event systems so long as the transport is alive.
  

Possible Outcomes:

• The LWB are breaking free of the Farmer's Alliance and will become an independent NPC faction.
  
• Whether the convoy arrives at Kagoshima determines Schroder's fate.

Restarts:

• Restarts will be enabled three hours before the event begins.
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  • eventLWBvhfCologne
    
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  Rewards:
  Custom Title
  Requires an INRP write-up about the event from the point of view of your character. Can be submitted as a report within a relevant faction channel, comm section or as part of a story thread.
  
  Custom Roundel
  [Pending implementation] Requires an INRP write-up about the event from the point of view of your character. Can be submitted as a report within a relevant faction channel, comm section or as part of a story thread. Qualifying players will be eligible to claim a LWB Sichel or Sense sporting custom holo-roundels commemorating the LWB's independence.
  
  
  

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[StellarViss]

Let'sssss GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[TheSauron]

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[Zephyranthes]

[Kauket]

BREAKING NEWS

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Farmers Alliance reportedly have had contention over the recent marketing of a controversial soda brand, "The Klugg Chugg" being distributed. Activists in the Farmer Alliance have opposed this drink citing that it has "unethically farmed" ingredients that has resulted in the surmounting increase of work place related accidents handling the creation process of these beverages.

The LWB has refuted these claims, citing that "All ingredients are made with love from our farmers. We stand with Stuttgart in these trying times. Why not kick back, relax, and chug a Klugg and support our hard workers."

[HUMPHRESS]

Hellllll yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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[Shelco]

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[StellarViss]

Greetings my fellow farmers of Stuttgart. I have set up a discord to support our liberation effort.

https://discord.gg/mRZDA85c

Death to Synth Foods! Death to the collaborators! Death to the Farmers' Alliance!

[jammi]

The LWB ID has now been restored on the Cruisers Greifswald and Schwarzwald to allow people to set up characters for today's event. This will rephack you with the LWB IFF. Currently the Farmer's Alliance and LWB are rephacked to neutral with each other while we look at some issues around temporarily swapping the ownership of bases.

Voice channels have been set up for community use on the official server Discord:

• Room 1 - LWB
  
• Room 2 - Alliance

Fully equipped restart templates will be made available later on today. Given the likely imbalance between LWB and FA players, we are also considering some balancing mechanisms, including:

• FA having instant respawn.
  
• The staff transport being allowed to beam FA players directly to it.
  
• LWB being capped at gunboats.

Whether this is necessary will be reviewed as we assess turnout. Any changes during the event will be announced via console.

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[TheSauron]

Farmer's Alliance and LWB will have a 10 minute respawn timer for the system currently containing the even transport.

You should probably adjust this to just event systems. The way it's worded, it leaves people liable to eat a 1 hour death timer cause they got tied down in a fight that outlasted the transport's presence. I don't think that should be penalized, especially for edge cases of people dying immediately after the transport leaves without a chance to follow.

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