The Second Tau Empire
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MAJOR UPDATE, REWORKED LORE
It has been kept the same, but expanded upon and in a chapter based format
if chapter one had a soundtrack, it would be something like this
Tomorrow ill work on some more art stuffs for the chapters, I really need to sleep
For example, I'm thinking:
Never again
Join the ISC Today!
With a destroyed planet in the background, referencing the destruction of their homeworld.
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A 4xSC108 - Packhorse freighter, accompanied by a Lightning MK 2 warp into the sector. Their weapons are offline. They hail.
TRADE OFFERS AVAILABLE
Food
- 150 Week Ration Packs (100 Credits each)
- 50 kg Assorted Fruit and Veg (50 Credits each)
Hardware
- 3 Crew Quaters (2,000 Credits each)
- 1 Reactor (10,000 Credits each)
Minerals
- 5,000 kg Iron Ore (10 Credits each)
- 200 kg Rare Transparent Crystaline Material RARE (50,000 Credits each)
jbox1
//transmission start//
This is ISC command, we would definitely be interested in those crystalline materials you are selling, although budgets state we can't buy very many, we could certainly afford 2
//transmission end//
A buy order for 2 transparent crystalline material's is sent to the ship
Jenwuf an airtight crate is jettisoned from the tiny freighter. It contains a metric tonne of iron, 2 kg of Rare Transparent Crystaline Material (details available upon research), and some fries.
Pleasure doing buisness!
/transmission end/
The tiny fleet warps out of the sector.
—— RECOURSES GAINED ——
+ 110,000 Credits
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jbox1 yo jbox, you really should not sell your hardware at the same price as the manufacturing cost, it's impossible to make a profit that way!
//Transmission start//
BREAKING NEWS
headlines:
//MAK DRONES HAVE ABDUCTED AN APEX MINING CORP VESSEL //HOW HUMAN ARE YOU? //
presenter: Hello there Everyone, this is Globalcloud News, coming at you live from the Red Tower on New Tau.
shuffles holo papers
The mining/ trade vessel maru has dissapeared today following a first contact with an unknown Drone Collective known as the MAK
artist's rendition
soon after the ship, followed by Two ISC ships, entered the sector. They reported signs of a FTL Jamming field, Aproximately 1LY across, stopping their escape.
As the Maru attempted to flee, this radio broadcast was heard.
What the hell is that, this is the maru, REQUESTING IMMIDEAT---
Hull breach detected
oh god, multiple breaches detected in the port engine Nacelle.
This is maru to Silent and Progress we have been immobilized and need engineering teams beamed aboard as soon as possible.
what the hell are they doing, charging? You! ftl out of here!
i can't sir the Jamming is too strong
WHAT DO YOU MEAN JAMM-----
[connection lost]
presenter: It was around this time the Silent And Progress Witnessed the Ship, along with some mak's dissapear in a flash of light.
well anyway, enough of that on to the next headline! Are you human? lets find out!
//Transmission end//
TheUnleashedPiraat Not unless you are mining and crafting it yourself! Our products are cheaper and home made!
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After the first contact with the MAK, new ships have been designed by DART Corp to have better shields, better weapons, and be overall more efficient, all ships have also been refitted with new rear facing Torpedo pylons for defence.
New ships:
MAK class: current ships: 1 (prowess)
Hunter class: current ships: 2 (Hunter, Serene)
Maru class: current ships 2 (Cairo, Phlox)
Refits:
Progress, Torrent
silent
ill add them to the ships section soon.
That first ISC recruitment banner reminded me of those WH40K memes about the guard
"Pay is little, food is garbage, living conditions are barely existent, but they did give you a laser rifle"
"Join the guard they said, it'll be great they said, see exotic species and amazing planets they said"
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Updated ships to match retrofits, added two new ones:
NEW PEOPLE MAKING QUALITY FACTIONS? YAY!
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MMMM, TASTY SHIP-BASED LORE
Update: added lore/descriptions for the recently added ships.
Also, I'm tempted to move the ships to a separate thread, such as the named ships, as it is just a list of ships in use by the ISC and civil corporations and captains, rather than actual classes of ship.
Oh, and no, I'm not going to paint a different number and name every one of those tiny Terror class escorts in use, ill just show here how many are in use, currently 8.
however...
One thing I'm thinking of is changing how income, research and ship building works for this faction, if anyone has some ideas feel free to suggest them.
my current idea is to have a daily income, after all it is a corporation funded by the planets it protects. And so would get paid in a kind of security tax for each month/year. but with how many ships people on these forums have, and the expensive but small nature of Dart corp ships, id give the ISC a daily income, so it can compete.
(I mean the ISC has 11 main ships and 8 escorts, meanwhile most factions have 100's of what id call a main ship. It is only this way because of my obsession with naming each ship, so I can forever memorialize their actions, crew, and how they died/decommissioned on this post in the aforementioned named ships part (if I ever get round to adding them all to the list that is).)
