Union+Rogues V Rep'Shipping+Liberty Pol' - Beggar's Convoy: Time: May 4th, 18:00 UTC

[The Syndicate Leagues]

Convoy Escort Event - Lawfuls Verses Pirates.

Beggars Convoy

Lower to Intermediate skill level players expected.

"They better pay me double heading through the independent worlds. Out there, you don't only have Unioners coming after you, but rogues, even Xenos, too. There's never enough credits in it." - Unnamed Interspace Commerce PMC.

Unioner Rogue Pirates, Liberty Police + Limited Navy Republican Shipping Convoy.

Registration, fighters, bombers, Gunboats, Transports.

Liberty border systems, Eastern Independent Worlds.

Time: May the 4th18:00 UTC

Team start Locations:

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Unioner Arbeiterwing - Rogue raiders Dawson Base, Hudson System.

Liberty Corporate Escorts - Republican Shipping Inbound Traffic Planet California Minor California System



Roleplay Basis:

It's often said that the most most valuable goods in Sirius are water, fuel, food, and diamond. In a volatile Sirian economy, only the precious stone and metal market is stable enough to match the unpredictable interest rates of the Sirian economy. This is all the more true within the the house underworlds, where unmarked minerals are a choice substitute for traceable credit transfers.

Republican Shipping has more pragmatic interests. As the premier supplier of logistics and containerised shipping solutions since the Von Rohe's day uprising, Republican has long been searching to leverage its logistical advantage into other industries. To this end, the company has placed a large order of a mysterious cargo from planet California Minor; a cargo that is being protected by an unusually large contracted escort from the Liberty Police. Pirates are an imaginative bunch, and the rumour has spread around the Hudson rogues and the Pacifica Unioners that the cargo must be highly valuable - perhaps diamond, platinum, or even alien materials - worthy of running the risk to raid the convoy wholesale.

The reality, as reality tends to be, is much less interesting. The convoy is but a bulk-buy of current generation fertiliser for Republican's internal aquaculture program, and the extensive security detail simply there to avoid their corporate rivals scanning the transports. The transports are headed to Altona station, under heavy escort.


Event Phase:

- Republican Shipping has contracted Liberty Police Incorporated Escorts to protect a shipment of Flora Gro, between California Minor and Altona Station, Hamburg.

- The Unioners and the Rogues, after an unscrupulous tip-off by a corporate competitor, believe that the shipment is carrying Diamonds. They have organised in-force to stop the convoy.


- The Unioners and the Rogues must find and engage the convoy before the Convoy passes into Hamburg.

- The Convoy must use the trade lanes and gate network.

- The Unioners and Rogues will attempt to pirate the convoy. The Convoy will resist piracy.

- Once the battle has begun, the transports are expected to participate in the battle.

- Uruzes are very powerful in group fights when hugged by escorts or when used as area-of-effect weapons due to their EMP flacks. For this reason, the unlawfuls get an extra gunboat to help prevent the Uruzes from rapidly draining the nanos of the unlawful VHFs. The law recieves an extra bomber slot to increase DPS against the gunboats.


Event Rules:

The event is a simple engagement event, without phases or complexity.

The Event requires Slots.

Event Consequences:

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Intercorporate Victory:

Another day, another cargo of dead 'perps. The survivors are rounded up by the Federal police and held on homicide and piracy charges, carrying twenty five years to life of hard labour at LPI Sugarland; LPI's shareholders will quickly recoup the damages incurred as the Unioners and Rogues look forward to a life of breaking large chunks of toxic waste into smaller chunks, whilst the escorts who survived the raid look forward to a windfall of hazard pay.

Republican uses the opportunity to boost shareholder confidence in a return-to-form for shipping and distribution operations aboard Altona station. The shipping corporation widely advertises its working relationship with local law enforcement within the independent systems. Images of Republican security fighters shooting down rogue and Unioner raiders with relative ease fill the neuralnet, damaging the credibility of future Unioner threats.

Hornbrow Unity victory

The Unioners and the rogues split the loot between them after hours of haggling, brawling, and drinking, before promtly blaming one another that the cargo of supposed diamonds and jewels is nothing but chemical fertilizer. Regardless, both the Unioners and the Rogues celebrate the oppertunity to stick it to their respective corporate oppressors. The Unioners, knowing that that the crime was committed in Liberty territory, are confident that the case will never come to criminal court within Hamburg itself. The Age-old alliance between the Rogues and the Unioners is alive and well; both factions are likely to try to increase their mutual support in the independent worlds within the coming months. The attack attracts media hysteria; rallying disaffected Rheinlanders and Rogues alike to begin a life of lucrative crime. In irony, much of the FloraGro finds its way circuitously into the hands of Republican Shipping once again, as the Rogues and Unioners sell the remaining chemicals off to graymarket middle-men. Some of the FloraGro finds its way into the hands of underworld bomb makers, and is chemically decomposed to create improvised explosives.


The loss of the FloraGro shipment forces Republican to expend shareholder confidence on additional escorts and security payouts to secure a steady supply of fertiliser for the company's agricultural projects.

Escort Wing Composition - Republican Shipping CorpSec'.
■ Fighter/bomber:<RS>|Begleitflieger27 - Eagle
■ Fighter/bomber: <RS> unknown escort - probably eagle.
■ Fighter/bomber:Open



California Police Department Charter Escort officers - Liberty Police Incorporated.
■ Fighter/bomber: Police.Brutality
■ Fighter/bomber: Deriek-Kabal
■ Fighter/bomber: PitoChan - Guardian.

Houston Police Department Armoured Response - Liberty Police Incorporated.

■ Gunboat:Open

Patrol Element 23, One Hundred and thirty first home defence wing - Liberty Navy:

■ Fighter [LN]Gamma-7
■ FighterDurandal - Navy Guardian.



Logistics Vessel - Republican Shipping Chartered Traders.

■ Uruz Armoured Container Transport: Open
■ Uruz Armoured Container Transport:Open

Ater Hammer - Pacifica Unioners


■ Fighter/bomber:UN|Hellion - Arbeiter
■ Fighter/bomber:UN|Drachen - Solidaritat
■ Fighter only:UN|Kobold - Arbeiter
■ Fighter only:Open

Hell's Teamster - Pacifica Unioners

■ Gunboat:Open



Scumbag's Squadron - Dwitty's Rogues


■ Fighter/bomber:LR-Hemlocke - Werewolf
■ Fighter/bomber:LR-Michael.Pierce
■ Fighter only:LR-Atheistic.Methodist
■ Fighter only:LR-Lauren:Brooke

Scumbag's Welterweight - Dwitty's Rogues

■ Gunboat:Open


// Good luck. Details to be refined with faction leaders. Indies are welcome.

// Slot registry required.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Dark.Star]

Starting at 17:00 UTC I could come.
Or maybe later? Id still preffer 17:00
As if I come, put me as Rogue Bomber reserve

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[The Syndicate Leagues]

Starting at 17:00 UTC I could come.
Or maybe later? Id still preffer 17:00
As if I come, put me as Rogue Bomber reserve

Sounds good. What day and what ID?


Friday or sunday could work.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Dark.Star]

Both gud, Id say Sunday so more people can come

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[Couden]

LR-Michael.Pierce (Nova bmb) or UN|GEIST-Kommerikut (SNAC bmb)

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[The Syndicate Leagues]

Event moved to Star Wars day ( May the 4th), in light of the event name being a unabashed star wars reference, and to give people enough time to organise.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Hemlocke]

LR-Hemlocke (Werewolf Fighter Pilot)

[The Syndicate Leagues]

Added. Keep the slots coming!

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" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Dark_Knight]

UN|Drachen (Bomber) or UN|Barbarossa (Gunboat)

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[The Syndicate Leagues]

Updated. Keep them coming.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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