Attention All Outcasts

[mwerte]

ok, here's one of the RoS's BSs RP. Does it need to be this extensive? No, IMO, it isn't really needed at all as long as the ship RPs ingame. But I was bored and thought that a playerfaction needed to do a bit more then the average player.

BTW, Eppy, could you give me a link to Fantasia's background story? I need something to read at work...

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File Name: The Road to becoming Captain

Zacarias Friedan was born on Ruiz base. He was born to the Commodore of Ruiz (his father) and one of the Ruiz Defense Force fighter pilots. Such a relationship between officers and non-officers was, of course, against regulations so as soon as his mother found out she was pregnant she resigned from the Fleet in hopes of saving the Commodore's career. Though she was no longer a combat pilot she stayed on Ruiz and worked in a merchant's shop there to support herself and her son.

After Zacarias grew up in this military family until he was 19 when he enrolled in the Officers Training School of Malta. His parents were proud of his choice, except instead of Fighter Squad Command or the Army Officer's, he chose the Fleet Officer Corp. Both the Army and the Fighter Corps despised the Capital ships and their “god-ego” captains. But Zacarias was determined because he loved the big ships. When he was younger he would sit and watch videos of them for hours on end.

So he left Ruiz, bidding his parents goodbye, and headed for Malta.

Four Years Later

“Hard to starboard, hard to starboard!!” The Captain of Requiem shouted. Zacaria assigned to a group of 3 Destroyers, as Chief Comm Officer of Requiem, the lead ship of the task force. The task force was stationed in Beta to defend Ruiz Base. A Bounty Hunter Battleship had entered Beta to hunt for an Outcast fighter pilot who had pissed off a Universal Shipping head honcho. It was the task force's job to make sure he didn't succeed. The battleship's shields were falling, but it was still pouring firepower into Requiem, who's shields had fallen and was sustaining hull damage.

“Hit them with the full power of our guns!!” Yelled Captain Hombries, commanding officer of Requiem

“Get Merciless and Terror behind that monstrosity to disable her engines, we don't want the cowards running.” Snarled Vice Admiral Tirfo, who was in charge of the whole task force.

Around the battleship Saber and Manta fighters were engaged in a broiling battle for supremacy. Whichever side won would be able to launch bombers who could turn the tide of the battle for the bounty hunters, or secure victory for the Outcasts.

KaBOOOM!! An explosion on the third deck made Requiem shudder and lose power momentarily. The enemy gunners had just scored a solid hit on the Outcast ship.

“Veer us about, loose the enemy in the rocks till our shields are restored!” ordered Captain Hombries.

But the bounty hunters would not give up and chased after Requiem scoring hit after hit. Stupidly the bounty hunter captain left his friends in Mantas behind, and without the suppressive fire of the battleship keeping the Outcasts distracted the Mantas started to fall quickly.

A missile streaked in and detonated against the hull right near the bridge of Requiem. Everyone was tossed out of their seats and poor Captain Hombries was instantly decapitated by a flying metal beam. The second in command was sucked out the hole that was opened in the ship's hull before the force fields could close the hole and Vice Admiral Tirfo was tossed by the explosion against the wall and slid down unconscious. And just like that, Chief Comm Officer Friedan was in charge of Requiem.

This fact took a moment to sink in as the crew called for medics and got back to their stations. “Oh ****” were the only words he could muster.

Something inside him shattered under the pressure, but the rest of him started snapping orders and working furiously to save the ship.

“Bring us about, head toward Ruiz, this idiot seems intent on following us so let's lead them into our guns there.

Inform Captain Donovian of Merciless that he's in charge of the task force. Let Ruiz know we are coming and” he checked rear scanners “that the bounty hunter battleship is without its fighter escort.”

“Aye Sir!” The new comm officer replied.

“Ok brothers, lets keep this ship alive.

Engineering, I need all the power you can muster, first priority is the shields, second is engines and third is guns.

Comm, let Merciless and Terror know what we are doing.

Repair crews get up here now.

Helm, keep us away from those rocks, we're over our Damage Taken quota already today.

However...Guns we are NOT over our Damage Given quota today, correct that problem ASAP. Keep firing at that battleship, aim for the bridge, that should make em flinch.

Helm, try to shield Ruiz from their sight, we don't want them to catch wind of our plan do we?”

“Aye Sir!”'s rang out around the bridge.

Requiem moved at full speed toward Ruiz. The enemy was right behind them the entire way taking off chunks of her hull. They weren't going to make it...they weren't going to make it...they weren't going to make it... the ship shuddered under another barrage as the bounty hunters smelled victory. One more salvo and the bounty hunters would fracture Requiem's hull. Then it could turn and engage the other 2 destroyers...a battleship vs 2 destroyers is no contest, even a battleship as battered as theirs was sure to win. The gunners lined up their shot...

and bolts of laser power streaked toward Requiem. She dived and the shots passed over them and splashed harmlessly into Ruiz's shield. Ruiz's return fire wasn't so kind to the battleship. As the bounty hunters turned to try and run Ruiz turned whole sections of their ship into molten metal. And now the finisher, 2 squads of bombers streaked in from either side of the battleship and unleashed their antimatter cannons into the battleship's hull. Catastrophic hull failure began to occur and escape pods began to jettison from the doomed ship. The few remaining Mantas managed to grab a few pods as they fled but Ruiz picked up more. Bad times awaited those bounty hunters.

Merciless and Terror opened up yet again on the battleship, rupturing its Reactor Core turning the whole ship into a molten fireball. Victory!!

Aboard Requiem every alarm that could go off was doing so. Hull breaches, reactor failure, life support failure, oxygen leaking out the hull, losing power...all the alarms you REALLY don't want to hear.

“Ruiz this is Requiem we need to make full power to Corsica for repairs. Thank you for the assist.” Transmitted Zacarias to his father.

“Anytime Requiem. And son...good job.”

After the repairs were completed a reward ceremony was held aboard Ruiz to commemorate the victory. And to give Zacaria his first command, Requiem was his.

For the next year and a half Requiem, Merciless, and Terror patrolled Beta, keeping it safe. Requiem remained the task force flagship, and Captain Friedan proved to be an outstanding commander. Maybe it was all that experience he had from his father running the base. Or maybe it was from watching his mother manage the store. Whatever it was he was an extremely efficient commander. However his personal life had troubles, he was very curt and direct with people which left him with no friends aboard the ship. He was both a micro-manager and a perfectionist, great qualities to have in a Destroyer Commander, but poor qualities in a friend.

They were then rotated to the far side of Eta, on the other side of the minefield, to protect and give advance warning to the rest of the fleet.

During that time the battle group received a Red Hessian Cruiser and command was transferred to that ship, the Malice. They defended Eta with spectacular results. 17 Cruisers , 9 Dreadnoughts, 1 Osiris, and hundreds of gunboats/fighters/bombers all fell to the Outcast's guns. And that's not including any ships that were killed while working with other task forces or ships.

At the end of that tour of duty Zacaria was recruited by the RoS Archon to command their new flagship; PuppetMaster. PuppetMaster was one of the first new Outcast Battleships ever put into combat. It was originally given to the leader of the [LR]; Valdar under the name Graviton. This ship was returned to the Outcasts after the Rouges requisitioned a new ship better suited for their tactics. Now with the RoS Zacaria would see more combat than ever before. Now the Corsairs would see more destruction then ever before, because no longer was Zacaria purely on the defensive, Puppet Master was under orders to be ready to assist in assaults against Corsair bases...including the spawn of evil itself; Crete.

//Compliments to Mwerte for this story

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