| Planet Carlisle
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- Carlisle and Yuma are similar in many ways. Both are tropical exceptions in the Barrier, although each faces different challenges. Both also have Liberty’s covetous eye fixed upon them. Not in terms of conquest, but Liberty’s influence and culture is everywhere you look, with financial strings that inevitably lead back to Manhattan. My trade delegation is here to offer their insight. A strong trade partner is preferable to a leashed hound.
- We import Copper from Coronado, where recently discovered deposits rival the purity of those in the Walker Nebula. The Crayter Republic refines some of this Copper on Yuma, however we now purchase most of our exports from Deep Space Engineering. They have established their own orbital refinery in the system, and disapprove of our independent production. Previously we had a profitable relationship with the IMG to counterbalance Liberty’s corporations, but this recently collapsed.
- Bretonia’s current state is a strategic concern for the Crayter Republic. We are aware that Liberty’s primary interest in our Republic is securing a buffer territory in the Barrier Pass. Deterring Gallia before a hypothetical future war occurs requires a credible threat in the Taus. We are pulling our weight in Tau-23, however Bretonia is not. Requests to New London have failed, so now we will try lobbying the Colonial Governor here for their support. If war comes again, Newcastle will also be a front line, after all.
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| Battlecruiser Tuscaloosa
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- This place pales in comparison to Malta, but as far as rest stops are concerned, it is the finest available to us on the long journey to Buffalo base. Eska, the Rogue in charge of the place keeps his men on a tight leash as well, so long as he is flattered appropriately and paid his dues when asked. Still, this resort could stand to be more than just a den of self indulgence, if it were guided by a firm hand like ours.
- The upstart Rogue who lords over this resort charges all my people a tithe. He thinks himself above us, in time he will be reminded that there is no height you can ascend to that you cannot also fall from. And when he does, we will be here - waiting.
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| Sabah Shipyard
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- Sabah was established under difficult conditions during the Gallic War. We scaled up the shipyard remarkably quickly to keep our military going, but that came at a cost -- literally. Much of the project was underwritten by Liberty who wanted an ally securing their flank in the Independent Worlds. Paying off our war debts will take decades.
- There's supposedly a consortium of Yuma investors who are considering approaching DSE with a buy-out offer for Scottsdale. Marked down for the recent damage, of course. The DSE technicians I've talked to don't seem to want to be here, but who knows what their board wants?
- Every day there are more and more Libertonians aboard. DSE "consultants", Universal Shipping muscling in on local contracts. Even Synth Foods has been sniffing around. The President says this is a sign of prosperity, but it feels like a tightening leash.<PARA />
- The Treaty of Harris in 827 offered the Republic respite for the first time in a decade. First the Gallic War, then Kusari's treacherous assault. Sabah has finally been able to scale back work shifts and pivot to producing the transports our economy needs. Unfortunately, these vessels are too expensive to compete with Kusari on export markets, and our merchant fleet is facing extreme pressure from Universal Shipping.
- The Crayter Republic does not descend from the same Sleeper Ships as the Houses. Our ancestors departed Sol aboard the Gemini and Orion. These prototype Alliance vessels launched during the Lunar Conflicts, heading for the Crayter System with a grand vision to prove interstellar colonization was possible. Our success proved to Alliance leaders that the exodus to Sirius was possible.
- For years there were rumors of Rheinland vessels spotted in the Barrier. Sailor's tales, people projecting old memories of the Colony Wars -- or so we thought. It turns out there were indeed monsters hiding in those asteroids, and the Republic bears the scars of those lost putting a stop to them.
- The Republic was near driven to extinction when Gallia conquered Tau-44. Sabah was built to repair and modernize the fleet at any cost. Bretonia sent advisors from BMM to get us into the fight quickly. They certainly deserve their reputation as brutal taskmasters, but they got the job done. The shipwrights killed in the drydocks are just as much war heroes as the pilots who fell in Cortez or Tau-31 -- they saved the Republic.
- Before Gallia forced us out of the Taus, DSE had surveyed Coronado and was constructing a Docking Ring at Yuma. While unfortunate for Liberty, the destruction of DSE's Armstrong expedition was a near miraculous stroke of luck for our people. Without Yuma, we would have been forced to continue retreating into Liberty, and ceased to be an independent state.
- When the Crayter remnants first arrived in Sirius, our ships were utterly obsolete. Even accounting for the centuries spent hibernating during the evacuation from Crayter, Sirian materials science was shocking. With the help of the IMG, we were able to retrofit our vessels with open market hull plating and propulsion, but Sabah was the first opportunity for our engineers to fully re-imagine our native designs to integrate Sirian technologies. The early Gallic War was an incredibly harsh awakening.
- Sabah is the birthplace of most of the Crayter fleet. The Gallic War inflicted a heavy toll on us, between the evacuation of Tau-44, and the campaigns to drive the Royal Navy out of the Independent Worlds and the Taus. Sabah's drydocks worked around the clock for 8 full years to keep the Republic fighting. Here, outdated Crayter designs were retrofitted or replaced with a second generation that fully harnessed Sirian technology.
- Sabah is an iconic facility for the Republic -- every schoolchild can sketch it from memory. It was Sabah that put the Crayter fleet back in the fight during the Gallic War, and it was Sabah that supported the colonization of Yuma. Even today, Sabah is where seasteads and habitation blocks are prefabricated for deployment.<PARA />
- Sabah took some damage during the Jericho Incident -- mostly electronics, although we were spared the worst of it by distance. Scottsdale is doing badly, and the Oizys was orbiting the moon and took the full brunt. Patching her up is going to be a difficult job. Nearly every subsystem is fried.
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| Planet Yuma
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- I know this isn't the most common place you'd find a lass like me but even these flea ridden places deserve a little female attention. Especially if the folks in here are paying.
- I was in one of the first shuttles that landed here. I figured that the first folks down would be the safest. Big mistake. The guns they used for excavating the surface barely missed us as we flew down! I still panic when I see those big bloody cruisers landing.
- I heard rumours that folks over at the Gate have found an alien structure in the barrier! I knew they would come back, they won't get me this time though! No, no they won't...ha..no they won't...they won't...
- When the Armstrong was destroyed, there were a few of us on the surface of the planet. We were lucky to escape the pirate attack and I thank these bloody poisonous plants every day that the IMG came and wiped out those bastards.
- There have been rumours about strange objects in the wastelands, some say they are even connected to one of the moons around here. I think it's called Jericho, don't quote me on that though.
- The wreck of a Royal Navy destroyer captained by Émilien Bouchard. The Guépard was last sighted in 826 AS, as part of a flotilla of mutinous Royalist warships fleeing from the glassing of Leeds. The Guépard appears to have suffered catastrophic damage to the engine compartment, leading to total depressurization.
- There is some good news regarding the planet. As our research went on involving the flora, we noticed that the bacteria we were bringing down to the planet was aggressively attacking the natural flora. Several floral species we brought from Gaia have been introduced to the planet surface and they seem to be thriving, suggesting that the planet can be easily made fully colonisable, without the worry of toxic flora.
- We were right there, I could see it. That damned green sun glaring in my face as the missile warnings kicked in and everything went to hell. If we'd spent less time politicking and more time focusing on decisive action, this refugee crisis might have been averted entirely. Now we're the courageous few who were a few hours too late to make a difference.
- Over the years I've been involved with this planet I've learnt one thing. If it doesn't kill you immediately, it'll kill you soon after. So far we have found that roughly 83 percent of all flora on the planet is toxic in one way or another.
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