| Valravn Citadel | |
| Owner | |
| The Technocracy | |
| Location | |
| D/E-6, Inverness |
CLASS: Corvus
GRAVITY: Unknown
DOCKING: Unknown
AMENITIES: Unknown
CREW: Unknown
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Valravn Citadel is a large space station orbiting the ice planet Elgin in the Inverness system, and is the most important space station of the Technocrats. The foundations of Valravn were laid in 825 AS, and the station has been expanded gradually into its current form, with a focus on making the station as self-sufficient, sustainable, and secure as possible -- both against threats coming from outside and from within the station itself.
The original purpose of the Citadel was to serve as a central hub for the fledgling Technocrat society. However, with subsequent expansions, many research and production facilities, a complex for amenities, and even a dry dock for repair and maintenance of Technocrat spacecraft were added. Since the incorporation of the Gammu "refugees" among the Technocrats as of 832 AS, Valravn now also serves as their new home base -- a function made possible primarily due to reserve computing power allowing the Citadel's network to serve as a limited replacement of the lost Planet Gammu's infrastructure for the surviving AIs.
Following the collapse of the gravitational anomaly connecting Inverness to Vespucci, Valravn Citadel found itself in a challenging supply situation, having lost one of their covert supply routes from the Borderworlds and beyond. This supply complication became even more pronounced when the survivors from Gammu arrived at the Citadel. The station had to be quickly modified to accommodate the machine intelligences' computing needs, which led to a significant portion of the facilities and services onboard becoming either unavailable or subject to rationing due to these adjustments.
Although the Technocrat administration managed to quell unrest aboard the Citadel, preventing any serious internal disturbance, it is now clear that the limits of the Citadel's original design in terms of sustainability have been reached.
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Ships sold
| Ship | Class | Price |
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| Piranha | Light Fighter | 19,952$ |
| Barracuda | Heavy Fighter | 18,458$ |
| Hammerhead | Very Heavy Fighter | 24,979$ |
| Nightjar | Very Heavy Fighter | 44,978$ |
| Moray | Bomber | 68,476$ |
| Draugr | Freighter | 27,669$ |
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. |
| [832 AS] Planet Gammu occupied by Core |
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CARRIER ORION -- 832 AS -- Planet Gammu has fallen into The Core’s clutches, despite the efforts of Technocrats from the Carrier Orion. After the Corsairs of Omicron Kappa were drawn away, the Battleship Mars returned in force. The Gammusian Intelligences offered little resistance, with most either retreating underground or scattering despite Technocrat urging. Several Gammusian Ancestor Minds were evacuated aboard the Orion during the fighting. Technocrat commanders have complained bitterly that the Core could have been repulsed had the Gammusians stood their ground -- Valravn is now evaluating tactical options for responding to this crisis. |
| [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] 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”. |