Zoners

[Curios]

So the schiller is somehow the reason the corsairs got powerful? I find that hard to believe. They might have used the technology on the ship to upgrade their fleet but to say that the schiller is the reason they got great ships is asinine

Not really.

I think DA decided Sairs to live pined down on the Crete because, remember, they took just some landing ships with them so I don't think they really had anything useful left from the past Sol era. The whole SS kept going to the Alpha with it's technologies but then it got sabotaged and many useful information and tech was lost once again. So the Schiller was just a chance to get a space ship technologies and technologies to travel into the other systems along with star maps and other valuable information. However it throw the nation down by 450 years while all Houses were developing their economy and industry. That's generally the key feature of the Corsair RP - they have a deep grudge and hate for the more successful neighbors because Corsairs had to make a poor living on the deserted and unfertilized Crete for centuries.

The "best shipbuilding" part is, actually, about the materials the Corsairs managed to produce after researching the Alien Artifacts. That allowed Corsairs to build the toughest ships and they are keeping the secret of the process. Corsairs are carefully researching all artifacts and sell only aesthetically cool looking useless chunks of metal and stone that carry no materials for research. So this is not the best-in-all ship building. Corsairs have a quiet well known issues with logistics since the availability of materials are usually depended on the luck of the raiding parties. Something you can buy from Junkers, yes, but not all for sure.

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