| Carrier Praia | |
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| C-3, Inverness |
CLASS: Bustard
CREW: Unknown
ARMAMENT: Unknown
The Praia started life as an experiment by the Zoners of Bethlehem, where it served as a mobile mining platform in the Hydrogen fields of Pennsylvania. Fielding a fleet of mining ships, it served as a drop off and collection point for the extracted gas. After Bering quietly fell to pirates and other opportunists, the Zoners were driven off Freeport 2 and Bethlehem experienced an influx of refugees seeking to rebuild their lives on the nearest Zoner station to their former home.
After having lived for so long without the oversight of house law, the newly arrived inhabitants of Bethlehem soon began to chafe under the restrictions of Liberty law. When a mining ship collided with the Praia, forcing it to return to Bethlehem for repairs, a sect of radical Freeport 2 Zoners entered negotiations with the owners to purchase the carrier.
The negotiations finally resulted in the full purchase of the Praia for the Zoners who wished to reclaim Freeport 2. Mining ships and transports were replaced with fighters and other ships designed for combat. Setting off for the edges of the Tanner field in Bering, the Praia, once a platform of business, now carried the Militant Zoners who sought to reclaim their former home.
News of Gran Canaria's fall to the Bretonians eventually reached those in Bering and a decision by those in command of Praia was made that the carrier should abandon the stalemate of Bering and head for the distant Omega-49 system so that it could assist the Zoners fighting to liberate their home planet from Bretonian rule. The carrier survived the dangerous journey through Rheinland and the Omegas, spending several years hidden in the Barrier Nebula to assist the Gran Canarian Resistance against the Bretonian authorities.
Following the withdrawal of Bretonia from Omega-49, the Praia's Militants continued their mantra of helping Zoners resist tyranny across Sirius. To this end, the Praia made for Alberta, to help the stranded Zoners of Freeport 14 relocate to Inverness. Following this, it briefly saw service alongside the Carrier Pinnacle during the annexation of Pennsylvania, however severe damaged inflicted by the Liberty Navy forced the Militants to withdraw back to Inverness to regroup.
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Ships sold
| Ship | Class | Price |
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| Eagle | Very Heavy Fighter | 24,079$ |
| Roc | Bomber | 70,176$ |
| Osprey Mk II | Bomber | 86,312$ |
News
| [833 AS] LPI commissioner sentenced following Erie probe |
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PLANET ERIE -- 833 -- Helen O’Shea, Pennsylvania’s former LPI Commissioner, has been sentenced on corruption charges over the mismanagement of Erie’s planetary internment camps. The facilities were constructed to temporarily hold prisoners from the Liberty Insurgency while the courts cleared sentencing backlogs. Following allegations of human trafficking, the LSF launched a major investigation, discovering that as many as 10 percent of inmates were suspected of having been sold to traffickers. O’Shea is the latest and most high profile prosecution to date, and is expected to serve a ten year sentence at a minimum security penitentiary on Planet Los Angeles. |
| [831 AS] Gate corps clash over 'Blackout'! |
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ABBEVILLE -- 831 AS -- EFL's 'Resilience Taskforce' today reported its findings on The Blackout, claiming to have gathered forensic evidence that proved the cause as Ageira negligence. A spokesperson claimed that the destruction of the Dublin Jump Gate by Molly separatists had created a hyperspace feedback loop that was propagated and amplified through the Ageira gate network. Ageira disputed this finding in their own press release, calling EFL 'fantasists' and countering that their own scientists had narrowed the cause to a rare 'hypernova' stellar event that originated outside the Sirius sector. Both corporations claim that network-wide hardware safeguards have been implemented that would prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Independent researchers have sharply criticized the corporate announcements, accusing both of self-interested misdirection. Professor Sophia Nagel from Heisenberg Research Station called EFL's accusation 'incoherent' and the hypernova explanation 'nonsense' that did not explain the characteristics of the 'Blackout Pulse'. Despite multiple different Pulse recordings being widely disseminated across the neural net, public efforts have so far failed to triangulate its source. |
| [831 AS] Jump Hole Upheaval Causes Chaos |
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HEISENBERG -- 831 AS -- Jump holes across Sirius have become increasingly volatile and chaotic over the last year, with Professor Sophia Nagel from the Heisenberg Research Station linking the unusual phenomena to the Pulse. The Pulse was an unprecedented blast of hyperspace energy that was detected immediately prior to last year's Jump Gate Blackout. Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off. While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes. |
| [831 AS] Pulse phenomenon linked to Blackout |
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AMES RESEARCH STATION -- 831 -- Independent researchers have announced that a hyperspace pulse of unprecedented strength was detected moments before The Blackout, destroying many of the sector’s most sensitive and finely tuned observatories. Surviving data about 'The Pulse' has been widely shared across the neural net in recent days, prompting mass speculation. Professor Katsuma Oster of Ames Research Station described the signal as “astounding”. “These readings are unprecedented, as if reality itself were struck like a gong.” House authorities have remained tight lipped, refusing to share their own observatories' data. |
| [831 AS] 'Blackout' causes jump network failure |
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MANHATTAN -- 831 AS -- Two days ago Jump Gates failed simultaneously across Sirius, freezing commerce and neural net access across the sector. When communications resumed 31 hours later, the news broke of Bretonia's loss of the Dublin system. This twin shock has plunged markets into chaos, prompting fears of sector-wide economic recessions. Interspace estimates that the stoppage alone caused billions of credits in losses. Gallia immediately accused Liberty of causing the outage, claiming the destruction of Dublin's Jump Gate instigated a cascading failure in faulty Ageira infrastructure. Ageira has sharply refuted the allegation, claiming such a systemic effect would be physically impossible. |
| [830 AS] Liberty underworld bolstered by Insurgency survivors |
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FONTANA -- 830 AS -- The Liberty Insurgency dramatically exploded following Liberty's invasion of Vespucci, with the human wreckage now scattered across Liberty's underworld. While some slunk away into the crowds of Planet Erie or the obscurity of foreign Freeports, others sought refuge with the Liberty Rogues, Xenos, or Technocracy. Those survivors are now having to prove their worth with their new hosts, with the Xenos in particular having an extremely rocky history with the Insurgency and its predecessors. More than anything else, these pariahs provide an object lesson on the risks of fighting Liberty head-on. |
| [830 AS] Militants take up arms in Pennsylvania |
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PINNACLE STATION -- 830 -- Many Zoner captains flocked to Pennsylvania to protest Liberty’s overreach when the direction of President Hawthorne’s demands became clear. This included the Carrier Pinnacle and several Fearless destroyers. The Battleship Alma’s callous destruction of the Pinnacle as it protected fleeing evacuation freighters should serve as a wakeup call to any who believe Liberty’s occupation will be business as usual. Those with the will to resist are assembling in the Driftwood Ice Asteroid Field, where Pinnacle Station is being assembled. Liberty cannot be allowed to crush our freedom and steal our homes. Whatever it takes, we will strike back against oppression and liberate Erie from the invaders! |
| [830 AS] Liberty annexes Planet Erie |
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PLANET ERIE -- 830 -- The Liberty Navy has launched Operation PESTICIDE to annex Pennsylvania, following the collapse of talks between Liberty and Zoner authorities. President Hawthorne declared that Liberty could no longer tolerate a "lawless frontier" within its very core, and that the Zoners had repeatedly refused to extradite criminals and terrorists from the Pennsylvania protectorate. The recent destruction of an LSF satellite was the straw that broke the camel's back. Militias congregating around Planet Erie were routed following the Zoner Carrier Pinnacle’s destruction. The Battleship Alma then secured Erie’s orbit and landed Marines to impose Liberty law on Lake City. Surviving militants have vowed to resist Erie’s occupation. |
| [830 AS] Trouble in paradise on Erie |
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PLANET ERIE -- 830 AS -- Since the destruction of Williamstown Depot near Planet Tremont, Liberty and Erie's autonomous Zoner government have been locked in a standoff. Liberty has long suspected the Insurgency attack on its logistics station was facilitated by informants on Erie, and has accused the Zoners of allowing Insurgency and Xeno operatives to roam the planet with "impunity". This morning, a missile streaked from Erie's wilderness, shooting down an orbiting LSF satellite that had been tracking "terrorist activities". Liberty has accused Zoner militias of the attack, and ordered Erie authorities to hand over the perpetrators, and all Insurgency affiliates. Zoners have denied responsibility, calling the attack a “Liberty false flag”. |