Bastille Day #1 = In the Spotlight's Glare [Rheinland + Unioners. Slots] 9th Saturday

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Bastille day #1 - Storyline event precursor.

In the Spotlight's Glare

Lower to Intermediate skill level players expected.

"If they catch me, I hope they kill me. Rather a quick death than to be locked in that hole, fed barely enough to keep a man alive, under threat of being burned, flushed out, or dry froze if the state doesn't want to pay my legal bills. You go into Virlande? You'll never see the stars again." - Unnamed Unioner

Unioner Scout Party, Federal Law Enforcement

Registration, fighters and bombers only

Planet Hannover, Hamburg System.

Time: Saturday, 9th March, 19:30 UTC Please give best times below

Team start Locations:

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Unioner Rearguard Sudheide, Hamburg System

Virlande Prison Defence Forces Vierlande Prison, Hamburg System



Roleplay Basis:

Virlande - impregnable, slab-sided, lightless and lifeless, the Virlande Supermax penitentary is the largest prison structure in the Rheinland, the permanent home to the most despised that Rheinland brushed aside. Murderous pirates, drug smugglers, through to simple political activists have found themselves inducted into Virlande, only to die. All sentences in the vast, fortified supermax are for life, an effective burial for the idealists, dreamers and crusaders who have wasted out their remaining years at the displeasure of the Rheinland state. No imate ever inducted into Virlande post-conviction has ever recieved a retrial or a pardon. Conditions in Virlande are best described as intentionally terrible; freezing slab-steel solitary cell-blocks where inmate violence is rampant and the guards are renowned for their brutality. Isolated far from the tradelanes and the eyes of the general public over the freezing Hannover Methane Giant, It is often said that the only way out of Virlande, is in a coffin. Virlande's notoriety has been openly embraced by hardline elements of the Bundestag, who consider the station the ultimate deterrence against crimes of physical violence against the state's elite and well-to-do, however, there remains some degree of ethical argument for preserving Virlande. In a Rheinland where billions of the house's populace are involved in criminality in some way, only the absolute monsters, considered irredeemable by the state, arrive under Virlande's walls.

To the Unioners, the Virlande supermax is the ultimate symbol of state corruption and neglect.



A large contact, thought to be a civillian vessel converted into an improvised data-collection suite, breezed by Virlande at 23:00 hours Hamburg Standard Time, triggering missile and point defences before dissapearing in a cloud of chaff and EM emissives. Unlike the majority of mostly-suicidal raiders that have attempted prison breaks on the impregnable Virlande prison station, home to over fifty thousand of Rheinland's most controversial inmates. As old as the Rheinland Republic itself, the Virlande's skeletons date from crimes committed even before the Von Rohe uprising.

For nearly two centuries, the Unioner movement has struggled to crack their buried comrades out of Virlande, without success. Repeated attempts by the Hessians, Bundschuh and former LWB had met with no greater success. Whilst there are rumours of scattered individual escapes from Virlande, the veracity of these rumours is very much in doubt.

A prison break from the Virlande Prison is thought to be impossible.


Event Phase:

- An unknown reconnaissance vessel has buzzed Virlande's space defences, triggering radar lock without entering effective shoot-down range. As is customary when unknown vessels approach the prison, a response wing has been sortied. This is nothing out of the ordinary. It is believed that the vessel is attempting to escape towards the New Berlin Jump Hole.

- A Unioner rearguard has scrambled to provide the reconnaissance vessel enough time to escape into the Sudheide. Unioner forces are equivalent to the federal response wing; it appears that the defence is premeditated.



Event Rules:

The event is a simple engagement event, without phases or complexity.

The Event requires Slots.

Event Consequences:

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Federal Victory:


Local Law Enforcement fails to detain the surveilance vessel (although they may destroy the corvo before it is able to escape), however, they do succeed in capturing a brace of Unioner pilots from within the Sudheide. None of them appear willing to talk, although an extended stay in Virlande before their day in federal court may crack some information out of them.





Unioner Victory:


The Unioner rearguard succeeds in downing Virlande's rapid response wing. By the time additional craft can be sortied, the Unioners have vanished into the Sud.




Wing Composition - Rheinland Forces.
■ Fighter/bomber:Wraith - VHF
■ Fighter/bomber: Runa.Morgenstern - Heavy VHF
■ Fighter/bomber:BDM|Dkt-Geoff.Enfield - VHF
■ Fighter/bomber:Sophie Scholl
■ Fighter only:[RM]KAdm.H.Hiestand - VHF
■ Fighter only:Sleipnir - Slepnir

Wing Composition - Unioner Forces

■ Fighter/bomber:UN|Wusslig VHF
■ Fighter/bomber:UN|GEIST-Minuit VHF
■ Fighter/bomber:UN|Arbeiter VHF
■ Fighter/bomber:UN|Hellion VHF
■ Fighter only:UN|Kobold VHF
■ Fighter only:UN|Nova VHF

Wing Composition - Unioner Non-Combatant (/Will only fire when fired upon. Functionally irrelevant for balance purposes).

■ AWACS Corvo:UN|A-Berolina


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