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**jammi** · 02-23-2024, 01:06 PM,

Combat Event

Art by @CuteyCAI

DATES

March 2, 20:00 UTC - 22:00 UTC.

OVERVIEW

Gallia and Rheinland have been mired in diplomatic negotiations for years, slowly grinding their way towards the Treaty of Oerlikon - a free trade agreement that would represent a sweeping overhaul of their economic and security relationship. In recent months, there has been promise of a breakthrough on a number of difficult issues that were blocking progress, including the unrestricted import of raw material and alloys into Gallia, and agri-exports and Consumer Goods into Rheinland.

In a final effort to push the Treaty over the line, Rheinland has gone on a diplomatic charm offensive, proposing a state visit to the Gallic capital, Il-de-France.

The Gallic Union eagerly accepted the offer, seeing a visit by Emperor Frederick von Albrecht as a potential propaganda coup both domestically and abroad. Rheinland meanwhile is looking to project an international image of strength, stability and solidarity, attempting to reassure trade partners that the divisions and bloodshed of the Civil War are long past. Despite this, Rheinland’s Consensus Government remains dysfunctional and the Gallic Union rife with Royalist sympathisers; details of the convoy’s route and departure time were quickly leaked to a number of hostile groups.

The Rheinland Military, Gallic Navy, and intelligence services will be providing an armed escort to the convoy's flagship as it carries the Emperor to Gallia. The convoy will also be accompanied by three Rheinland Diplomatic Corps liners (sponsored by Daumann, Kruger and Imperial Shipping). They are carrying the Minister of Trade and Industry, corporate delegations, and elite trade negotiators. The Minister has been relegated to one of these transports following a falling out between the Emperor and the Imperial politicians who originally schemed to place him on the Throne. The Emperor now prefers to spend his time surrounded by Military sycophants and toadies.

It is expected that the convoy will face heavy resistance from the outset. A chance to embarrass - or worse - the Emperor of Rheinland is an opportunity that many groups will not be able to pass up.

DETAILS

This event is being run as a part of wider series hosted by The Starport, celebrating the 21st anniversary of Freelancer's 4th March release date. A whole bunch of different mods are holding their own events, and we'd wholeheartedly recommend you join the Startport Discord server and check them out.

This event is going to be paired with a stream where Discovery developers will be taking questions from chat, as well as talking about the mod and the event itself.

Objectives:

Convoy Defenders: Your objective is to escort the Battlecruiser RNC-Burghausen and Diplomatic Corps liners from Planet New Berlin to Planet New Paris, and kill any attackers impeding your progress.
Convoy Attackers: Score points for your faction by killing escorts, destroying Diplomatic Corps liners, and destroying the sub-components of the battlecruiser RNC-Burghausen. The RNC-Burghausen cannot be destroyed, but arriving heavily damaged will be incredibly politically damaging for both the Emperor and Gallic Union.

Event rules:

Event participants are restricted to using cruisers and below.
Participating Official Factions may bring one battleship, however these ships do not respawn. These ships must be named here in advance.
RM, RFP, MND, GN and GNI have ZoI in each of the event systems for the duration of the event.
RM, RFP, MND, GN and GNI can respawn immediately in the event systems for the duration of the event.
Convoy attackers can respawn immediately by playing a different event faction. You cannot rejoin the event with a ship belonging to an ID you have already died with.
Only factions with ZoI may enter an event system for the duration of the event (does not affect Trade Ships).

Bounties:

Note: The Liners will have unique Rheinland Diplomatic Corps IDs, will not respawn, and have a special $1,000,000 bounty.

GETTING INVOLVED

Mod Installation:
For stream viewers and Starport members who aren't regular Discovery players, you can also get involved in the event quickly and easily.

Follow these instructions to download and install the mod. This should only take a few minutes.

If you need help, please ask during the stream or check out our Discord server.

Restart Templates:
One hour before the event starts, a new set of restart templates will be enabled. These will provide you with a fully equipped and repped bomber of the appropriate faction.

To use these templates, create a new character on the Discovery RP 24/7 server, and type the restart command into the chatbox. These commands are listed below.

Rheinland Military (Planet New Berlin) - /restart eventRM
GN (Planet New Berlin) - /restart eventGN
Bundschuh (Kaiserslautern Depot) - /restart eventBund
Maquis (Brunoy Hideout) - /restart eventMaquis
Rheinland Wild (Lausanne Complex) - /restart eventRhWild
Gallic Wild (Lausanne Complex) - /restart eventGaWild

These templates are being provided to help you get involved in the event with minimal fuss and explore new factions. These are being offered as a sign of trust in the community. We can track the use of these restart templates, and players attempting to abuse this trust by 'farming' ships for credits will not have a fun time.

OUTCOME

The diplomatic convoy to Gallia could be considered nothing less than an outright disaster. Despite a significant armed guard consisting of elements from both the Rheinland Military and Gallic Navy, the convoy came under heavy and sustained assault almost immediately. Within Rheinland itself, Bundschuh fighters inflicted early casualties on the Emperor's escort, although they were unable to penetrate the perimeter to the RNC Burghausen or the diplomatic attachment. Despite calls to abort the mission entirely due to the security lapse, Military commanders were determined to press on.

In the Alsace Passage itself calamity truly struck. Hordes of Wild fighters and fearsome Scorpion drones rushed the convoy, suicidally intent on bringing down the diplomatic liners and flagship. The defenders were appalled by the Wild's inhuman tactics, as fighters threw themselves into the engines of enemy capital ships, or used their own hulls to absorb torpedoes intended for Scorpion Drones. Despite dozens being destroyed, the Scorpions carried out their deadly work, chewing through the armour and detonating the reactors of the liners Datteln and Niederaussem.

As emergency search and rescue units across Cologne and Zurich were scrambled to rescue survivors, the convoy was forced to push on into Champagne - it was far too late and far too dangerous to contemplate turning back to Rheinland. Finally in Gallic core space, the delegation received a brief reprieve. Marne's orbit had been cleared in preparation for arrival, although the radio waves were still filled with the clamour of protesting industrial workers on the planet below. Upon arriving in Ile-de-France, the procession came under heavy attack once more, this time by Maquis terrorists.

The final liner carrying the Trade Minister, Baron Tobias von Hueber, was dramatically destroyed in New Paris orbit. Struck by several Maquis suicide bombers, the liner broke in half and began to fall into the planet's atmosphere. Local Gallic emergency services rushed to recover escape pods, with the Minister himself rescued in a critically injured state. The remaining Maquis attackers were scythed down by the Paris defence grid, and the remnants forced to flee. Seemingly oblivious to this chaos, the heavily sheltered Emperor bumbled his way through an arrival speech, seemingly insulting his hosts at several points.

Military officers and the shellshocked handful of negotiators who survived the journey are now working around the clock to try and mend relations and put the mutual benefits of the Treaty of Oerlikon at the forefront of discussions once more. Gallic officials are sure to use the Emperor's gaffe as an excuse to extract more favourable conditions, to the Rheinlanders' chagrin. The Treaty's ratification in the coming weeks is almost a certainty - there are too many credits on the line for it to be otherwise - however Rheinland will now be negotiating this critical phase stripped of its most experienced specialists.

Regardless of the political manoeuvring, however the issue is framed, this procession has been a humiliating debacle for both Houses. Gallia, already suspicious of its own intelligence apparatus, has purged several senior GNI officers and commissioned an inquest into the leaks that facilitated the attacks. Rheinland for its part has already made preparations to bolster the Altenberg's squadrons and deploy the MND with an objective of tracking down and exterminating the lairs the Wild had emerged from.

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tommygun209 · (This post was last modified: 02-23-2024, 01:19 PM by tommygun209.)

I see the line about convoy attackers respawn rules, but what about convoy defenders? Also I feel like Wild should be given lesser bounties for killing everyone else, as I think they won't discriminate

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Couden · 02-23-2024, 01:18 PM,

Why coalition involved here once again?

Switchback · 02-23-2024, 01:19 PM,

(02-23-2024, 01:17 PM)tommygun209 Wrote: I see the line about convoy attackers respawn rules, but what about convoy defenders? Also I feel like Wild should be given lesser bounties for killing everyone else, as I think they won't discriminate

Literally one line above it in Event Rules.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

tommygun209 · 02-23-2024, 01:22 PM,

(02-23-2024, 01:19 PM)Switchback Wrote:
(02-23-2024, 01:17 PM)tommygun209 Wrote: I see the line about convoy attackers respawn rules, but what about convoy defenders? Also I feel like Wild should be given lesser bounties for killing everyone else, as I think they won't discriminate

Literally one line above it in Event Rules.

I see it now, but it doesn't make sense for me. What does it mean? They can respawn immdeiately or they can't respawn at all?

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Darius · 02-23-2024, 01:26 PM,

Bumping the Wild's server in advance: https://discord.gg/8qJ3Gg5rQb

Join up as we'll hopefully prepare an Oder swarm to kick ass and take names.

**jammi** · 02-23-2024, 01:29 PM,

(02-23-2024, 01:22 PM)tommygun209 Wrote:
(02-23-2024, 01:19 PM)Switchback Wrote:
(02-23-2024, 01:17 PM)tommygun209 Wrote: I see the line about convoy attackers respawn rules, but what about convoy defenders? Also I feel like Wild should be given lesser bounties for killing everyone else, as I think they won't discriminate

Literally one line above it in Event Rules.

I see it now, but it doesn't make sense for me. What does it mean? They can respawn immdeiately or they can't respawn at all?

Defenders can immediately undock and rejoin the fight. No waiting. I'd recommend that the convoy use stations along the route as waypoints, and make sure everyone docks before proceeding.

Attackers can also respawn immediately, but only if they swap to a different faction that has ZoI in the system.

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**Antonio** · 02-23-2024, 01:31 PM,

(02-23-2024, 01:22 PM)tommygun209 Wrote:
(02-23-2024, 01:19 PM)Switchback Wrote:
(02-23-2024, 01:17 PM)tommygun209 Wrote: I see the line about convoy attackers respawn rules, but what about convoy defenders? Also I feel like Wild should be given lesser bounties for killing everyone else, as I think they won't discriminate

Literally one line above it in Event Rules.

I see it now, but it doesn't make sense for me. What does it mean? They can respawn immdeiately or they can't respawn at all?

Say you log a Corsair ship. You die. You are not allowed to log a Corsair ship for the rest of the event, but you can log a Hessian and immediately re-join. You die again. You are not allowed to log Corsairs or Hessians. You log Maquis and re-join. Repeat.

**Barrier** · 02-23-2024, 01:45 PM,

(02-23-2024, 01:18 PM)Couden Wrote: Why coalition involved here once again?

That's up to the players. We're not barring anyone who has zoi, so they're involved by default.

Arnold · (This post was last modified: 02-23-2024, 02:45 PM by Arnold.)

For people interested to be on the defensive side, here are the discords of Gallia and Rheinland:

Gallic Navy:
https://discord.gg/j3kjkQ5QGC

Rheinland Military:
https://discord.com/invite/P9mUVZ3MKV

BDM/Rheinland Intelligence:
https://discord.gg/QMXnJceZV4

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