Subjugation

[Halcyon]

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SUBJUGATION

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-- Subjugator's History

The INS Subjugator is a Judicator-Class cruiser which was previously in service to the Insurgency and Commonwealth of House Liberty respectively. While not an outstanding vessel by any metric, the Subjugator was presumed to have gone missing at the time of the collapse, with its known patrol paths being Colorado, Kepler and Galileo. The Subjugator was a vanguard against Northern Border activities, and functioned as an outpost for Legionnaires seeking to launch strikes into Colorado against the LPI.

In recent months, several fighter craft once belonging to the Subjugator’s escort wing have been spotted engaging in piracy, and flying the colors of the Liberty Rogues. Following the collapse of the Insurgency, the Subjugator had taken refuge in Copernicus, where its crew had learned the fate of their home. The command staff made the decision to abandon ship and fall into civilian life where possible, yet the general staff were not keen on the idea of scuttling their new home. Conflict ensued, as a bloody firefight rocked the mess hall.

With barely fifty survivors and not a ranking officer among them, the survivors appointed Lex Adams - A Lieutenant with experience in Task Force Gladius as the voice of the crew. Adams enjoyed the idea of being in charge for a change, and had the crew turn to piracy in order to sustain their operations in the Borderworlds. What first started as small scale raids on convoys for fuel and food, quickly devolved into credit robberies, bushwhacking miners and kidnappings.

When ransoms failed to come in, the kidnapped victims of Adams’ crew were either sold off to slavers, contacts in Navy uniforms that represent cells nobody has heard of, or considered ‘free game’ for harvesting. The darker actions undertaken by the crew led to further problems on board, as a handful of staffers still loyal to the idea of a free Liberty felt they had slipped too far into injustice. In a vain effort to take out the budding warlord, a mutiny attempt was made. Lex Adams was severely wounded, and lost his leg in the second bout of fighting on board the Subjugator. When the mutineers were beaten, and the survivors rounded up - Adams had them decapitated as a cruel and crude example to the others in his command.

This was his ship now.

The years would slowly tick by as the Subjugator fell into disrepair, functioning primarily as a mobile base of operations and less of a support cruiser. They soon found themselves struggling to survive, as the command staff had left them without the means to properly access or maintain the vessel's systems. The few engineering crew who had remained didn’t have access or enough experience with the ship itself, and attempted to use some of the credits they had earned over the years to pay Lane Hackers to crack the software. When this proved less than successful, Adams had them spoof a code for him to utilize as the ultimate authority on board, solidifying his role as Captain of the growing band of marauders.

The halls of the once-Insurgent operated vessel soon saw themselves full of debris, loot and garbage. The walls were marked with crudely painted logos of the gang’s insignia over what was once the Orange Star. 'Renegades'. The areas that weren’t trafficked much had no lighting or power running to them, and what little power the ship had went to sustaining the atmosphere and life support where necessary. What rooms weren’t in use had no power or gravity flowing to them at all, and were sealed or barricaded shut in the event the magnetic doors had failed.

The ship had become a cudgel against anybody that'd stand between Lex and his growing reckless aspirations for power in the underworld. He and his crew were opportunists, and take their chances as they appear.

The following is a series of events leading to their demise.

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