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About the Newcastle system
Offline Sombs
10-13-2024, 08:18 AM,
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Newcastle has a cursed history. The system has seen so many reworks in both system and lore, every generation of Discovery players had a different memory on it, and it sucks. The system used to be huge, then got downsized, then resized, upscaled, downsized again. The nomad city was redesigned over and over again. For a time, it was a nomad weapon platform not even hidden in a nebula, then it was a Shrine-type station, then it got turned into Nomad City, got teleported into Darlington Atmosphere, then pulled out of it again and Darlington Atmoshere got replaced with Knosses Atmosphere.

Newcastle saw most of its activity in the war with Gallia and when the Mollys ran a scrappy Newark-type station surrounded by a mine field. Outcasts occasionally raided the system, too. The human stations in Newcastle are incredibly bland and always felt like they were just added to give Bretonia even more drydocks left and right as well as some economy, and the coolest thing about Newcastle was Carlisle essentially being a paradise full of unclaimed resources teasingly close to Bretonia's grasp but fully denied because of an incredibly dangerous flesh-eating bacterium that Bretonia feared so much that it did everything to prevent people from landing on Carlisle, as an outbreak of this bacterium would be absolutely fatal.

... and then all of that got solved. Cryer found a way to defeat the bacterium, the war with Gallia is over, the Mollys lost their station and Newcastle, previously known for having an insane amount of jump hole connections, got neutered drastically. Today, the only people going to Newcastle are powertraders.


I really don't envy the people who have to deal with Newcastle.






































































































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About the Newcastle system - by Solo Wing Sagume - 10-12-2024, 10:43 PM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by The_Godslayer - 10-13-2024, 12:03 AM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by Helix - 10-13-2024, 01:49 AM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by Sombs - 10-13-2024, 08:18 AM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by Karst - 10-13-2024, 09:50 AM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by Uknown - 10-13-2024, 09:09 PM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by Antonio - 10-13-2024, 11:07 AM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by NOVA-5 - 10-13-2024, 01:34 PM
RE: About the Newcastle system - by Solo Wing Sagume - 10-13-2024, 08:01 PM

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