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Ah, I failed Sensors 101. :(

EDIT: Changed to a Light ship with cloaking device. Since I felt there would be a chance of my rescue force being detected, I had thought of placing a fleet of my own outside the Outback, but not so near to it, so that my rescue team returned safe to my territory. Note that this entire operation started after the Coalition entered the Outback.
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Ha!

At last, the long-awaited* final chapter of the Battle of Bannerman is up!

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*Well, OK, four days isn't that long
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To me it was an eternity. :P

Just kidding. But it's good to see more of your fleet stuff. Mang! Your stuff is so proper and professional-like. :D
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Shroom Man 777 wrote:To me it was an eternity. :P

Just kidding. But it's good to see more of your fleet stuff. Mang! Your stuff is so proper and professional-like. :D

While your stuff is about making analogies between spacebattles and serial murder rampages. Quite the distinction. :P
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Question: If my rescue force is detected by the Coalition or Pendleton, what will I do? I was thinking of placing a fleet near the B-A Gap to intervene if my rescue team is found, but this risks a shootout between the Centrality and the Coalition, which I don't want. Suggestions?
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I'd suggest identifying yourself and your purpose. At most, they'd want to inspect your ship to make sure you're not smuggling slaves or what have you, IOW, that you are who you say you are. But we're not going to take prisoners from other states launching ops to rescue citizens.

Now, if you want complications, such a discovery and necessary inspection could have your people plead to not be taken back, as they ended up slaves by misfortune after trying to escape the Centrality. But that's your choice, I'm not sure what you had in mind for them.
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Well, my people don't know much about other nations besides the propaganda the Centrality puts up. Besides, the ship I sent has the symbol of the Centrality (a black star with sword and shield in the center) painted on both sides. So if it's discovered, the Coalition won't doubt who sent that ship.

EDIT: Just to clear any doubts, the 10 enslaved Centralists were originaly part of a group of 100 captured by the Pfhors back in 3399, and these ended up on Pendleton.
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BTW, I edited a previous post to properly attribute and credit the source of the VaticanBurger article. The article itself was written by a friend, used to be known as Peregrin Toker here on SDnet and elsewhere.
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Force Lord wrote:Well, my people don't know much about other nations besides the propaganda the Centrality puts up. Besides, the ship I sent has the symbol of the Centrality (a black star with sword and shield in the center) painted on both sides. So if it's discovered, the Coalition won't doubt who sent that ship.
Yes, because clever Pendletonian slavers or pirates would never mark their ships with another country's seal to try and fool people. :P
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Force Lord wrote:Well, my people don't know much about other nations besides the propaganda the Centrality puts up. Besides, the ship I sent has the symbol of the Centrality (a black star with sword and shield in the center) painted on both sides. So if it's discovered, the Coalition won't doubt who sent that ship.
Yes, because clever Pendletonian slavers or pirates would never mark their ships with another country's seal to try and fool people. :P
Clearly the Pendies never heard about patents. :)

EDIT 1: Ah well. Maybe the prescence of my fleet at the other side of the B-A Gap will convince the Coalition that this is the real deal. :mrgreen:

But don't worry, I'm not looking for a fight. :angelic: The Centrality's leaders can be paranoid and unreasonable when it comes to situations like this.

EDIT 2: And what happens if it's Pendleton that finds out?
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Sorry for the double post, but my last post shows my fleet in position.

I fully expect the UN to kick my sorry ass now. :(
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Eh, don't worry about it. Though, honestly, the best your fleet can do is hold back on the Gap side and wait for the ship from Pendleton to come... and that's a voyage of 2 and a half to 3 days, as it takes 2 days to cross the shoals.

Though, if they're near the Gap, they're in the Outback, not near it.

I do wonder how well cloaks work in the shoals. Hope those plucky Umerian cutters don't pick them up...

Edit: Uh, nobody knew the Collectors are at Pendleton until the fleet got there.
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Steve wrote:Eh, don't worry about it. Though, honestly, the best your fleet can do is hold back on the Gap side and wait for the ship from Pendleton to come... and that's a voyage of 2 and a half to 3 days, as it takes 2 days to cross the shoals.
I dunno, if the Coalition finds out about my fleet and tell me to leave, the rescue ship will have to go to the Centrality on its own, and space is not safe these days.
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Force Lord wrote:
Steve wrote:Eh, don't worry about it. Though, honestly, the best your fleet can do is hold back on the Gap side and wait for the ship from Pendleton to come... and that's a voyage of 2 and a half to 3 days, as it takes 2 days to cross the shoals.
I dunno, if the Coalition finds out about my fleet and tell me to leave, the rescue ship will have to go to the Centrality on its own, and space is not safe these days.

A destroyer-class ship with a cloak is not exactly a target for pirates.
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Steve wrote:
Force Lord wrote:
Steve wrote:Eh, don't worry about it. Though, honestly, the best your fleet can do is hold back on the Gap side and wait for the ship from Pendleton to come... and that's a voyage of 2 and a half to 3 days, as it takes 2 days to cross the shoals.
I dunno, if the Coalition finds out about my fleet and tell me to leave, the rescue ship will have to go to the Centrality on its own, and space is not safe these days.

A destroyer-class ship with a cloak is not exactly a target for pirates.
Ok then. Has the Coalition found out about my fleet yet?
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Damn, Simon. Better late then never indeedy! :D
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Force Lord wrote: Ok then. Has the Coalition found out about my fleet yet?
I'm going to presume you're far enough away that you avoided detection so far. You probably were spotted on long range sensors moving through the New Anglia-Imperium Hyperlane, but nobody challenged you.

Oh, and, please remove the reference to knowing the Collectors are there.
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Steve wrote:Oh, and, please remove the reference to knowing the Collectors are there.
Done.
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Just so you will all know, I'll be on hiatus until next week. Some university stuff and the fact that this is the only working computer at home, so I have to give way to others.
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Excellent! So I can arrange for your ship to be captured and your poor citizens to realize how awesome the outside universe is! The Fall of the Vile Centrality Totalitarianism has begun! MWAHAHAHAHA. :twisted:
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Big Damn Heroes should be synonymous with Late Damn Heroes. :P
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I have something i would like to contribute to the battle. Can i insinuate myself into it?

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Suggest you who have sustained losses at 12th Pendleton should make note of such in the article.

And, from having combated Collector vessels, I think we deserve a more accurate 'official guess' at their power levels now?
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You are in the blockade fleet, Zor. Not in Pendleton actual.
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