Original Backstory

[marauder]

OK, actually the founders day revolt was caused by one mans greed.

The head of the mining operations in dublin was a man named something graves (can't remember his first name) he and his cronies started skimming a percentage off the gold shipments to NL, then they pushed the miners even harder to try and cover the shortfall.

Eventually the miners had enough and revolted, they took two mining ships the glorious (yup the one quintane was on in SP) and another one whose name I can't remember and fled. They thought that once NL found out how they'd been treated that everything would be ok, instead NL sent in the military.

The glorious was destroyed, however the other mining ship took cover in the asteroid field now known as the molly's gold field and set a trap, a gunboat and it's fighter escort flew into the field and were destroyed (thats were the wreck Storm comes from).

They realised that NL didn't care about their welfare as long as they got the gold, so they decided to carve their own home from britonia. Since then the mollys have fought the BAF to a standstill.

As for the 80 years war, it was started and continued for that long by daumann, who wanted the rich gas deposits there.

The GMG won by using guerrilla tactics and luring rhienland forces into explosive gas areas (remember that the NPC capships don't have shields). The rhienland military had grave doubts about being able to fight or win the war but daumann used it's massive political influence to get it started, they then made a fortune in shipbuilding contracts and weapon development funding.

I wanted people to read the rumours themselves, oh well.