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Seeing as I've attempted to post this now 3 times from the official account, I will give up and post it as this one instead.

The whole purpose of posting the initial post as a MD, was that it is to become a long term project, which will later have a lot more RP around it. These ships, for absolute ease of mind, will not become canonised assets. Although there is a plan to potentially look at doing one later in the future, the current ships are not a part of that process.

There is a lot of confusion and discrepancy about what Velvet truly is. It is in fact a Zoner faction, but as it even states in the about, is a lot more than that, and has since using the Zoner banner of its roots. By all in game rights, Velvet is still a Zoner group. But for clarity, is not just Zoners within the organisation. It has back door deals with many other organisations, most notable are it's three main allies, as well as it's access to Iridium, and now the recent dive into Azurite.

For sake of being on the same page, on the riches of Iridium, every armour upgrade uses Iridium to some degree, and is thus a major part of the growing economy. I will provide all links at the end specifically on this.

A large part of our funding as well, is via the deals we have with other factions, as well as our own in house logistics department.

Now, as far as it's believed, the initial confusion could have been made a lot more obvious in the original post, as it was stated that this is not only a long term project. This could have, and realistically should have been made clearer. As stated on the initial post: "The groundwork is currently being set and will be in motion within the next 8-16 hours"

Because there's an issue of a lack of RP around this, the stages are as per below. Naturally, this wasn't supposed to be known ooRP until things started happening iRP so that players can react as and how they see fit:
1) The foundations and plans (Done, the root cause of the initial feedback)
2) The supply drops. (This will be done as a post on our sub-forum soon)
3) A few mini events that we will be posting up as well as relevant comms (Expect a few random ones on this, as well as some stuff to and from allies)
4) Some "accidents and disasters" that go from our lack of experience in building these ships, so a few things won't be going to plan and will have to be fixed)
5) The initial test flight of several vessels which will become a mini event vs Nomads/Commune/Wild etc
6) The actual induction of the ships into the organisation.

Now, there are other plans but these are the basic ideas without giving excessive amounts of spoilers.

Clarity on Azurite gas. It is used within a lot of "Advanced" tech, and as such, is very valuable. Core, Order and anything that is involved against the Nomads or even co-operations with the Nomads would be heavily invovled with this.
Iridium is used as one of the main components in a lot of heavy, more dense alloys used in ship, station and even weapon construction. It's value is in its versatility. As the only major deposit is in Delta, and Velvet, Core and OSI have strong access to it, it makes sense that a large amount of funding is capable from this.
I know this is the wiki, but this is the most up to date version of the Armour Upgrades. As seen, Iridium is a main material used within this, as it is for the capital upgrades as well.
The recent agreement on the station, sees Velvet's "ownership" if you will, of these stations. As such, all their assets are also a part of what we own, if you will.


Should anyone have any more queries, issues or want anything clarified, it's highly recommended to check the subforum, so any discrepancies or inaccuracies can be fixed.

Sorry for the essay!