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Buccaneers NPC faction

jammi

08-21-2009, 09:38 PM,

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' Wrote:While I would support a base and a NPC faction for the Buccaneers, I think the idea with the own system is not the best.
They should definetly NOT have the technical expertise to colonize remote systems or planets.

A while ago we were bouncing ideas back and forth in the Buccaneer chat, and with the system the general concensus was if we got one it'd be in the blank area to the left of Bretonia that you can see on the map. Possibly in the red nebula that you can see on most Bretonian system's starboxs out in that direction.

The system itself would be such a hell-hole and so full of natural hazards and devoid of resources that Bretonian explorers would have had a look around, and simply given up with the term "screw this" hanging from their lips. We were thinking radiation, gas pockets, the works. Possibly rare Buccaneer installed weapon platforms scattered around the place to discourage new explorers.

There would be one base in the entire system, which I suppose could either be an old outpost abandoned by the explorers, or a dig-in built in a large asteroid. There was a joke going around about having a scrap-metal radiation shield built.

When thinking of a prospective Buccaneer system, think a really really hostile version of Omega 41.

@swift: Seeing as you posted as I was writing, I'll address some of your points. Gorilla fighters in the Middle East avoid being crushed by doubling back to positions that have been previously written off as abandoned. It's still a stronghold, but no-one suspects it is, so no-one cares. Similarly, there's no worries about explorers stumbling over the above system, because they already have and charted it as a dead end.

You'd also have to be mad to send a fleet into that kind of terrain. The BAF sent a fleet into the Southampton Debris Field to root out the Buccaneers in the past, and paid dearly for it (although we still came out worse), but the point is, that ground is a lot friendlier than what we're proposing.

And gaining an NPC faction would herald the 'exponential growth' period - it would be a fully fledged NPC faction, not just a unique IFF for a single group (that needs clearing with Glenn though) which would somewhat bypass the chance of the Buc|'s going inactive. I'm sure there'd be indies cropping up for us to oppress before long:P