History

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This is a proposition of a history for our mod. The events described here happened after the Freelancer original story...

History - Part I

Nomad threat for Sirius is no more, and Order is on watch in Omicrons. However, as alien threat was eliminated, new threats await.

Those who read news know that Corsairs had plans of invading Rheinland. However, Red Hessians got to know about those plans and warned Rheinalnd military command, resulting in massive military buildup in Frankfurt. To avoid casualties, Corsair elders decided to withdraw their forces and concentrate on defensive actions agains Red Hessians, like before. New target for growing Corsair fleets was Bretonia.

Corsairs raided Bretonian space for a long time by. Their primary target was Dublin system with rich gold deposits. Corsairs preferred to avoid Bretonia military and police patrols, but they couldn't avoid Mollys - a dangerous terrorist group from Dublin. By placing their base inside a mine field, Mollys made it nearly invulnerable to assault attempts from both military and Corsairs. But in an open space combate, clumsy Molly bloodhounds were no match for agile Corsair fighters.

Situation changed with the recent discovery of a new remote gold field in Dublin. Nearby, a previously unknown jump hole into Edinburgh was found. This meant that if Corsairs could take Dublin under their control, they would gain access to Tau systems through Edinburgh, threatening important Cardamine routes of Outcasts. Outcasts and their allies could not tolerate with threat of losing cardamine market of Bretonia and Liberty (80% of cardamine was supplied to Liberty through Bretonia). To help Mollys against Corsairs, Liberty Rogues provided them with several dozens of Huegenot cruisers.

Soon after Outcasts found out about the new jump hole, Corsairs knew about it too. Elders considered attacks agains Outcasts in Tau border worlds a risky and expensive affair, but worth the price. Outcasts were serious threat, unlike Mollys, but Outcasts had fewer numbers. If Corsairs could attack concurrently in Tau and Omega, they would eventually succeed in pushing Outcasts back into Edge Worlds and cut off all their cardamine routes. Isolated and lacking resources, Outcasts of Malta and Ruiz would finally surrender - or face inevitable death. Former allies of Outcasts will gladly continue working with Corsairs if they could supply them with cardamine, like Outcasts in the past. Even if Corsairs won't be able to conquer Malta, they still have a backdoor plan: Cryer scientists nearly completed research on synthetic drug that could replace cardamine.

If only Corsairs could accomplish their ambitious plans...