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The Galactic Web Project

Following the rapid expansion of the Tau combine, they have instead decided to unite the Galaxy via a new galactic scale network of neutral civillian outposts and stations, able to provide fuel for longer journeys and potentially save millions of lives by taking on evacuees during war.

image https://i.imgur.com/UimyAbD.png
Area covered

This however, comes at a great cost.
Tau themselves will likeley be forced to spread their grand navy across an area larger than anyone else ever has.
In effect, although it may seem to make them huge and powerful, it will proceed to do the opposite.

But this has not stopped them so far, and will likeley not stop them for some time...

Estimates show that it will take a long time for the rest of the network to be completed, many of the current stations being ones that where moved instead of newly built.

Outpost/Station types:

Small outpost
image https://i.imgur.com/ECiAQrF.png

Outpost
image https://i.imgur.com/aCERCe2.jpg

Station
image https://i.imgur.com/UiV8oH9.png

((OORP notes:
If your faction is located on one of the station/outposts location,
just either ignore it or tell me and i can move it, its been a while since anyone made a map so ive just put them wherever rather than trying to avoid faction borders (other than the core with bloodcult ofc).
Its only a rough map to give people an idea of what is going on, so don't worry too much.))

Tourist locations

(ones not on map, feel free to suggest more like in my old Tourist beacons thread)

New Tau Debris
Once a busy planet full of many different species, now merely reduced to a small debris field...
The events that went on that day are uncertain, yet the effect it has had on Tau has forced them to stay in space rather than risk another planet, something that sparked the very idea of the Web project.

Jenwuf I need map-making tips now

RedAndCosmoteer
XD
well, i just opened gimp and "traced" an image of a generic galaxy with the jitter thing, and it went on from there lol.

    Jenwuf
    I suppose there is no station at the core?

      Drakador_Chaos
      No xD
      Unless i wanted to be eaten by the bloodcult or something lol.

      Certain "places of intrest" don't have any installations, and the ones that will be added once the map is complete will have a few of these types of places.

      I placed my own station at the core! It's pretty great out here!

      proceeds to be eaten by the bloodcult

      idk why i did this

      Jenwuf ((I realize what you said but this certain faction isn't too keen on giving warning.))

      The outpost approx. 5,000 LY South-Southeast of the Tiark Memorial Station is reporting that it is being blockaded. The aggressors are medium-sized Black-and-Red ships that seem fully autonomous, have hexadecimal-based identification codes and highly advanced technology. There are about 3 flotillas worth of them, and the station so far has had no successful contact with the blockading ships.

      Visual of one flotilla of perpetrating vessels was sent to the Navy :

      image https://i.imgur.com/lnQZPXd.jpg

      RandomCommander (i more meant that unless your faction are very well hidden, they would not have even placed it near their borders in the first place... but nevermind, gives it some interaction xD)
      Being so close to a core station system, and being close to not one but two major stations, the response is quick.
      If somewhat small.

      image https://i.imgur.com/O2oUfxG.png
      The response consists of Three actual millitary vessels.

      The lead ship of her class, the TCS Steadfast, a reliable if somewhat old cruiser vessel.
      Two smaller Cutter class ships, the Corvi and the Carter.

      They are quickly joined by multiple civil ships, the cruise liner 'Personality' FHT-Nerari-L1-003 and its escort, a P-FHT MPS.
      Along with a wing of three freelance ships, two K-1000 MPS ships and one A-1100 DCV.

      From the nearby naval base stationed at Jarl's hope station, home to the memorial, the TCS Sabretooth battleship is preparing for launch along with another more substantial battlegroup should conflict emerge.
      Unfortunately, the large vessel has only just completed its modernization refits, and its crew are unprepared to launch right now.

      Jenwuf
      One of the flotillas breaks off on an intercept course. Shields and weapons are charged, but they are holding fire.

      The composition of this group seemed to be of about 4 heavy fighters, 4 disruptor gunships (they are designated as "Frigates" but seem a little too small for that), a Light Cruiser and what seems to be called a "Subcore," which must be a sort of command ship for these autonomous ships. There is one of these "Subcore" ships in each flotilla. A transmission comes from the Subcore nearing the battlegroup... Subcore-BS-5A0829

      /Transmission Start/
      The voice was deep and commanding. Without the metal tinge, it sounded a lot like a male tribal chieftain
      "You will go no further. This installation is pending removal. Avert your course and find a different route or be fired upon."
      /Transmission End/

        RandomCommander

        Bridge log 00-1103-12-3
        "Captain, a response from the unknown vessels! playing on holonav table now."
        [Playing audio]
        "You will go no further. This installation is pending removal. Avert your course and find a different route or be fired upon."
        [End of audio]
        "What the hell even is this...
        Well, Garth!"

        "Yes sir!"
        "Make sure weapons are armed, get the milita vessels to move back behind us"
        "Got it, Im on it now."
        "Right... These ships... They seem automated...
        Do we have any AMR rounds?"

        "No sir, Since the absence of any Mak threat as of lately we have none aboard."
        "Damn.
        Res, Slow down the ship to a near halt.
        And Computer, open up a transmission."

        //Transmission Start//
        "This is the captain of the Tau ship Steadfast, You have blockaded a neutral station owned by Galactic transport co.
        This outpost is located almost four thousand and five hundred Light years from any other known installation or "faction", and you have no sovereignty to 'remove' such an outpost without forewarning or good reason.
        Either leave this area at once, or explain to us where you are from and your reasons, or you will be forcefully made to leave this system regardless of any objections.

        Steadfast, awaiting reply."*
        //Transmission End//

        The ships begin to slow, the smaller civil vessels being ordered to move behind the cover of the larger ship.
        Their weapons slowly come online, although they refuse to lock or even aim their guns for now.

        Jenwuf
        It took about a minute for whatever was even on the other end to process the counter-request, but it did respond.

        /Transmission Start/
        "Steadfast, If this station is in any way attributed to your organization or race, then we suggest the following action:"

        "This station is dangerously close to sector Theta-Icoveo, an important location for our operations. What you may perceive as an "anomaly" that is within the sector is actually our gateway into this layer - one of our only secure ways, and has assisted in masking our signature from those who seek to hunt us down. The increase of your "civilian" traffic gives us less tactical liberty to operate discreetly. You will find a way to move this /station/, away from Theta-Icoveo, within 32 Green-- Recalculating... within approximately 1.5 /months/, and redirect all your vessels away from the sector, or we will have to initiate more... aggressive methods, to ensure our plans will not be at risk."

        "Our forces will stay until we confirm that the station is undergoing repositioning. We will not fire upon any vessels unless 1) Fired upon first, or 2) the allocated time has elapsed and there has been no progress in removing the station within the area of operations."

        "Steadfast, the countdown begins now. We will alert the station if plans have changed."
        /Transmission End/

        The Flotilla redirects course, continuing its route around the station. Their weapons do not seem like they want to disengage, but eventually they aim away from the Tau ships after they get out of range.

        RandomCommander

        Bridge log 00-1103-12-3
        [End of audio]
        "Well... That certainly seems like a valid reason...
        Res, issue a warning to GTC to move this station, ill set up an exlusion zone request."

        "Won't that just make it more obvious these... people, are here?"
        "Well, it won't seem too suspicious, its not the first exlusion zone and i doubt it will be the last.
        As long as the warning does not say something stupid like "Hey, alien robots here", it should seem normal."

        "Alright sir..."

        The civil ships begin to slowly move away, and those trapped docked with the small outpost finally undock to go elsewhere.

        image https://i.imgur.com/FXlZXOw.png
        An exlusion zone is added to the area, and the outpost scheduled to be transported to the north east via, somewhat ironically, a GTC transporter.

        The exlusion zone simply reads:

        "High mass from local Hypergiant class star causes Echo Drives to have issues being pulled out of FTL unexpectedly due to the high mass affecting their drives similarly to an FTL interdictor.
        Any and all traffic, civil or otherwise, is to be redirected around the exlusion zone.
        Any ship detected entering or exiting the zone will be prosecuted."

        The largest local star is in fact a Hypergiant, although it is on the very bottom of the scale for being one.
        In reality, no-one would be affected by such a star since it has already been mapped ao as to avoid it.
        Although, it still makes a good exuse that makes it unlikeley for anyone to notice, expecially considering the descriptions for exlusion zones are not public for other factions.

        image https://i.imgur.com/C2Hy0h5.png
        Around three hours after the last transmission, a large transporter vessel exits jump at the nearby star, heading to the station preparing to take it to pieces for transport within its inline docking bays.

        The navy ships continue to stick around at distance, making sure no civil vessels interviene,
        and to make sure that the "Theta-Icoveo aliens", as they have been named, keep their word.

        GWP news:

        Criminal broken out of neutral territory.
        Yesterday, a highly wanted criminal known for assisting the war-criminal most commonly known as "the Empress", was broken out of house arrest on Nix-aeternam.
        Lev initially refused to comment on the issue, however he eventually stated:

        "This act resulted in condemable action from both sides.
        However overall it has revealed the inhuman actions of the Zerg, and the lengths that they went to, just to hurt the three before handing them over to us.
        Although it may seem like a loss, this has been an outstanding success.
        It has resulted in the freedom of three people from the Zerg threat, and as much as the Zerg are to be respected, it has shown that action needs to be taken against them."

        Intruigingly, it may seem that Lev knew more than we did, and still does.
        Since no Zerg where ever present at the break-out.

        Even more shockingly, the charges held against "Emperor Lance" have been dropped, although many freelance 'pirates' across the web still want him for the old bounties on his head.


        War on the horizon?
        Two major factions within the Stellar Assembly, the GSR and the Solarics, have come to blows over the escape.
        A large GSR fleet was destroyed, and it is unknown if the Solarics have any losses.

        The Galactic web project leaders are to hold a meeting to discuss their neutrality or to support either side or even lock both out.

        We will continue to update you all with the latest information as it comes out.

        Map progress updated

        GWP news:

        Northernmost station constructed
        The most "northern" station to ever be constructed, "Carinae station" has been completed in recent days.
        Although somewhat ironically named for an ancient star on the opposite side of the galaxy.
        Astronomers are in dissagreement as to whether or not the star even still exists.
        Many theorise that due to many ruptures in the spacetime continum, and the galactic phenomenon of time dilation, it is possible that the star may still exist, have faded, and just been born similtaneously at the same time, at least to the observer.


        The Echo era
        Many people are reporting flashes and beams of light being emmited from various stars in the sky, more observation of this phenomenon has revealed that this is in fact due to various sources.

        one said source is the echo drive, which produces a similar beam of light that seems to somehow inherit the FTL properties of its user, ending up reaching neighbouring stars as a faint beam emmiting from the location only visible to very sensitive equipment.
        However, with the advent of larger drives, this phenomenon has become visible to the naked eye

        another source is possible ancient wars, wars that happened many years ago, finally reaching neighbouring systems, although unless a planet or star was destroyed, it is unlikeley to be visible to the naked eye.

        Jenwuf ((Got sick and momentarily forgot about this, sorry.))

        It took a while for the station to be moved piece-by-piece to a different location. As the procedure took place, every time about one third of the station was successfully transferred outside the sector, one of the flotillas generated some very anomalous wormhole - ones that seem to temporarily defy the laws of space-time - and disappear into it.

        One of the navy ships made a note to try and capture this phenomenon when the last piece of the station was successfully jumped out of the system - for the last flotilla, of course. Sure enough, they exited through the same set of wormholes, and the ship saved a video capture midway through the phenomenon. It was a risk, for sure, but it didn't seem to result in any bad consequences.

        Initial speculations of the phenomenon before the review were that since the laws and forces of such an "alien" travel method would surely rip apart and atomize any vessel that enters through it, there must have been some way these Theta-Icoveo ships are able to withstand it somehow. However, when studying the video feed closer, the ships seem to slowly atomize and break apart when nearing contact with the wormhole, but at such a close range it seems from the naked eye that they would be travelling through it. Everyone questioned why the Theta-Icoveo aliens would use such a drive if they knew it would destroy them in the process.

        It took one keen eye from a quantum physicist professor to notice that at the very last moment, those "atomized" pieces begin recombining into a part of something else before going through the wormhole completely at the next instant, signifying that the breaking apart of the ship hulls was actually controlled, and bringing about the speculation that these ships undergo a sort of metamorphosis to adapt to the new environment of presumably yet another dimension, and the rulesets of space and time within said dimension. How they manage such a feat, however, remains unknown.

        In the end, the Theta-Icoveo aliens kept their word, and the Tau combine's higher echelon managed to learn something new ((I presume the Navy had enough sense to keep this discovery under wraps?))

        RandomCommander
        ((Yep, as said last time, its been disguised as FTL disruption, although navy logs will be kept of the incident, its unlikeley they would ever become public.))

        image https://i.imgur.com/0WLeFes.png
        The station is left in pieces in the new system, awaiting yet another ship to arrive to assemble it.
        Overall, the disruption will probably affect the core sector for quite some time, and will have cost tens of millions of crex to move and reconstruct the small outpost, along with the permanent station of the Steadfast and a small response force to stop tresspassers in the region...

        in sector 80000 near the edge of galactic space
        a large fleet appears
        image https://i.imgur.com/fMhCHsv.png
        the fleet annihilates the parts of a outpost left for assembly and then engages there warp drives and leave