//This is a fun thing I might do once a week every Friday afternoon/evening server time. I'll be picking a random ship type and cargo or guns to have on a floating wreck somewhere in game. For the initial wreck, it'll be easier, but others might not be as easy to locate.
Nugget isn't an actual character, just someone James is telling about wrecks but the encryption standard isn't correctly configured (he's a Junker after all) so he's actually broadcasting it to everyone. So unless someone tells him that he's screwed up and is broadcasting this info to everyone, I'll keep it up. Though if it gets found out by him, I might just keep doing it anyway.
You can claim the ship or just blow it up for the cargo. Good roleplay elements will occur though if you're able to "tow" the ship back to a place of your choosing. Make sure that the ID of the ship in question isn't overly hostile to where you're towing it to, else it might get blown up! I might do Recruit ID's in the future if feasible (and an exception made to the rule of no RP with Recruit ID).
If this becomes popular enough with the community, I might open it up to donations of items or take on an actual event for a wreck in the Deep Omegas or some other place that's hard to reach with rare items. For now, it's going to be simple though.
Have fun!
--Leo
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Hey brother. I hate to pull you away from the scrap fields in Colorado, but I picked up some strange radiation while drifting through one of the debris fields in Tau-23 during a sweep along the scrap lanes. Hull fragments nearby match Outcast metallurgy. Not sure how anyone running through this system missed it unless the wreck is recent. Something tore that ship apart judging by the amount of debris scattered around.
I am not touching it alone. Whatever they were hauling is still active. My scanners keep flagging unstable cores and I am not interested in finding out the hard way what happens if one of them goes off.
Coordinates are attached, though the signal is drifting through the debris cloud. No telling how long it stays readable before someone else comes across the wreck and takes what is left. Might be worth a trip into the Taus to check it out with me. I figure you have some time before Kusari and Liberty start trading punches again. Could be decent money in it for you. Hell, the ship itself might be worth dragging out of there if the cargo turns out to be worthless.
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Tar:.....Nugget Ident:James Subj:...Kusari Explorer Sec:.....Err
I cannot believe some asshole swooped in and stole our prize in Tau-23. Guess I jinxed us when I said I was surprised nobody had found it yet. Ah well, you win some and you lose some. This time though you better pull up your britches and get out there quick.
There was a dust up in Galileo a couple of days ago. Looks like that quiet standoff between Kusari and Liberty is heating up faster than anyone expected. Not much of a shock though with all the leaks going around. A friend of mine at Trafalgar swears he saw a Kusari explorer gunboat limping through the system, engines burning and shields barely holding together. Said it was heading for the Copernicus jump hole before it vanished into the debris fields.
With all the rumors about that jump drive tech floating around, getting our hands on a Kusari ship of any kind could be worth a lot. Maybe leverage with one of the Houses, maybe just a clean sale to whoever is paying the most. Either way it sounds like something worth checking out before someone else beats us to it--and I'm almost certain Kusari wants their ship back and Liberty probably wants it for intel. Best to get out there as soon as you can to retrieve it before they get their mitts on it!
I'm nowhere near Liberty or I'd lend a hand. I'll be in the Sigmas next week so I'll not be headed that direction anytime soon. Let me know what you find.
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Seems to me you're either really slow on the uptake when I'm telling you to hurry to these wrecks I'm hearing about, or you're selling this information to other parties. I don't give a shit if it's the latter. Just cut me in on the profits if you are. I'm doing all the work finding out about these wrecks and you're just selling what I'm telling you. Stop being a stingy bastard.
[He clears his throat.]
Anyway, a friend of mine told me a story about an old legend. A Militant cruiser that took part in that Operation Pesticide thing a few years back. Supposedly the Zoners nearly took out a Liberty warship, but a lot of them met their end anyway despite the effort.
What I heard was that a Zoner crew was flying a pirate cruiser at the time, throwing whatever equipment they had at the invading force. Story goes the Alma managed to punch a gaping hole in their reactor with a railgun when their shields dropped. Last anyone saw of the ship, the engines were still running full tilt when the hit landed and it vanished into the Meadville Ice Fields. No one knows if the crew survived or if the ship finally broke apart out there. Supposedly though, they were carrying some nukes onboard meant for a suicide boarding party meant for the Alma. Story goes, they were going to detonate the nukes at the ships reactor but the ships demise put a kibosh on that plan.
Might be an interesting search.
If you do find it, I'd keep it intact and not salvage it unless you're really desperate. I am sure the Militants or Insurgents could make good use of a hull like that in their fight against Liberty, and they might pay a pretty damn good price for it.
Do not screw this one up. Let me know how much you get for it and we will split the profits 60/40.
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Tar:.....Nugget Ident:James Subj:...Zoner Science Transport Sec:.....Err
[The communication opens with silence. No one speaks, just dead air before James finally does.]
Are you fucking with me, Nugget? Really. I offer you a Militant Cruiser on a silver platter, and you let BRISTOL—
[His voice becomes shrill for a moment before the dead air returns. You can hear what might be quiet sobbing before he continues.]
Okay. That's fine. It's just credits, right? Just millions of credits. Whatever. Maybe you're just unlucky. Maybe we're unlucky. Fuck if I know at this point. I got a line on another ship. If the other three failed attempts are anything to go by, this one will probably get blown up, snapped up, or fucking abducted by aliens before you can get your hands on it.
Some Zoners were sobbing into their gruel about a Zoner ship that went missing in Gallia. I don't know the specifics, but the one talking didn't seem broken up about losing the ship or the crew. What they were upset about was losing a piece of technology that only certain people in their group were allowed to use.
I didn't hear anything specific since I was a few tables over at Newport, all I caught was that it was some kind of "Power Core." From what I gathered, the ship got stuck near the atmosphere of some gas giant in Gallia. Sounds like something that might be ripe for salvaging. But knowing you, it will probably end up in the hands of an angry blue space squid or as a bauble for some Gaul general. I'm not even going to bother looking into if you found it--at this point, you're going to give me an aneurysm hearing about how something I told you about got taken by someone else.
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