While the Sirius Sector have been inhabited by mankind for more than 800 years, it's exploration have been unsteady at best ' albeit now habiting at least a 100 seperate star systems, humanity mostly focused on the resources it could exploit ' without the ambition to really discover and understand the galaxy that surrounds us. It was therefore that while most planets suitable for colonisation have been thoroughly explored over the course of years, the ones unsuitable for colonisation or without important resources have been largely passed unmarked and ignored -This, however, have all changed in early 818. A.S.
The widely recognised geography professor, Paul Eckhardt Dawson from Planet Cambridge have been working in the field for nearly 40 years ' and since he've been mostly ignored, or even looked down upon for his chosen field of research, he came up with a plan to make both develop his field considerably and make it widely known: to form an independent research group conducting investigation and surveillance missions in space. The professor's efforts to organise such a research group would have probably in vein though ' his old age did not allow him to travel for off-world expeditions, nor did he have the will or the funds to organise such a venture.
It was Alexander Giles, and a bit later, Sebastian Nash who changed the situation. Despite coming from very different backgrounds ' a young, Bretonian intellectual rebel and a middle-aged Zoner with misterious origins ' they soon found a common tone, and the Professor's professional knowledge, Alexander's leadership abilities and Sebastian's financial background called to life one of the most extraordinary enterprise to be found in Sirius history: the Cambridge Stellar Research.
The two young titans first investigated the moon of Ashington in the Newcastle System, orbiting the Planet Carlisle ' and while almost having been unstrung by the bureaucracy and intrigues of Gateshead Station, they successfully conducted their research. What they have found was beyond all expectations ' that it was not Planet Carlisle where the lifeforms present on it's surface have originated from.
Such findings immideately brought CSR to the center of a somewhat unexpected attention. Alexander Giles is now the Head Researcher of a group with daily applicants from the fields of geology, astronomy, history and even commerce to flock under the banner of exploring our world to it's fullest. With the group's current headquarters on Planet Cambridge, him and his second-in-command Nash as his Executive Field Researcher are now struggling to organise the waves of applicants into a new faction dedicated to reveal the last undiscovered secrets of the world and planets that surround us.
With the group still being born, so is their diplomacy. But most importantly, the CSR is an independent researcher organisation, dedicated to the exploration of Sirius regardless of politics. Hence the group is following an attitude similar to that of the Zoners. Despite this way of thinking, no official connections have been estabilished towards the group, however, all CSR ships have been instructed to be exceedingly friendly towards them.
With the group's current location located on Planet Cambridge, they are currently under the jurisdiction of Bretonian Law. However, CSR's relationship with the authorities are far from ideal ' albeit the group's operations are entirely lawful, certain voices of importance amongst the authorities dissatisfied with the quick rise of the organisation are doing their best to put CSR at a disadvantage. CSR is friendly neutral with the Bretonian Police and Military, cooperating when needed but far from being allied.
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Friendly
Zoners
Friendly Neutral
Bretonian Police Authority
Bretonian Armed Forces
Neutral
Everyone else
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Equipment
The CSR is a civilian organisation, hence it uses all ships utilised by civilian engineers. Plans to extend the used line of equipment are still undergoing. The faction's most important vessel however is the X-Shuttle, a ship capable of surviving the extreme environmental conditions most surveillance missions are conducted in.
Ships
Primary Vessels
X-Shuttle - X11 Deep Space/Atmospheric Civilian Freighter
Secondary Vessels
All ships build by the civilian engineers of the Sirius Sector
Weapons
All weapons designed by the civilian engineers of the Sirius Sector
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Joining
Anyone interested in joining should throw me(Theranes) or Mare123King a PM, where we'll talk about further details.
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You may or may not have read my story lines but I mention Cambridge Medical quite a bit. I RP Doc as a guest lecturer and he sometimes teaches. He even sends some of his students there to get the doctorates.
I think we could generate some good dialogue between us.
I did not yet, but I've already heard of it - also about the fact that it was you with whom Bootsiuv(who is unfortunately unavailable far as I know these days) organised our stuff. I can only agree that such a dialogue would be extremely beneficial.:)
***Incomming message***
Comm ID: RV-Equinox
To: Cambridge Stellar Research group
Encryption level: medium
Greetings professor Dawson. Let me introduce myself. I'm captain Roy Khan, commander of the Research Vessel Equinox. We're a small group of independent scientists, living from our research. Previously we were employed by IMG, because they didn't want to risk the lives (and maybe their precious ships) by trying to conduct researches in more dangerous systems. Our job was mainly scanning asteroid fields, but once we had to get into Omega-52, the territory of the SCRA. By entering the jump hole they started firing at us, without a word. Turning on the cruise engines we could escape, but the ship's hull was battered heavily. We fast scanned the target planet Tbilisi, and had to get out of there because of the coalition ships were chasing us. The escape was a bit easier, although several hull breaches were reported. We lost 6 members of the crew on that mission. And for what? For nothing. The IMG didn't even want to hear from us, maybe they tried to get rid of us, by sending there. Well, they almost succeded. Now we're on our own again, trying to keep the Equinox in one piece. I think you could use our help, and vice versa. I'm sending the data of the crew and the ship.
***Transmitting additional information***
RV-Equinox (TTR-1130 Series Pilgrim Slave Liner, highly modified)
Equipped with several research stations, sensor arrays.
Captain: Cpt. Roy Khan
Crew: 12 people handling the ship's control, and weaponry
2 medics
Researchers: Planetology:
Afanasy Nikolaevich
Aapo Sebastian
Irina Klavdiya
Liza Agnes - KIA
Adolf Abegail
I like it. And I am sure that the scientific oriented part of the NLH might be interested in your research as well.
Any thoughts on that? Also I want to ask if your work will be mostly forum based. However if it's not please provide me with some examples of what you can do in-game.
With us Cambrige based, we could certainly roleplay some ties towards Green Front, and hence, NLH.
Also, our job is a mixture of being based on forums and ingame - we try to do as much as we can ingame, but we regularly post reports of our activities there to our storyline board, as seen with the AICD recovering mission.
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