WCGW Chpt 100

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==Chapter 100 - What Could Go Wrong==
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1 May 3042
Wokha (Former Outworlds System)
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Standing on a 200 meter tall hill, Lord Tyler "The Terrible" Pavlov looked out over his kingdom. A small space port capable of handling 6 Dropships at once covered the immediate area, behind it was the only remaining city on the planet with just over 460,000 people. It was also the location of his palace. He controlled a further 6 small settlements, averaging 3-4,000 population each, located around various mines where they mined raw ores for transport back to his city where they were smelted down to something usable. A vast expanse of greenhouses provided the only food able to be grown on this god forsaken ground. Years of trading for seeds had failed to find a single one that could survive in this soil. While he actually hated this place, it was the source of his power, so he stayed.
He had been born into the pirate life; both of his parents had been pirates. His parents had discovered this planet along with its crown jewel at the Nadir Jump Point, a fully functional Olympus Recharge Station, over 50 years ago and quickly killed the small militia, taking control. On reaching 21, he had gone along on his first raid, against the Outworlds Alliance where they had plundered a small metal smelter and replacement mining equipment. At 25, he was leading his own raids against small settlements on surrounding systems where they rounded up the entire populations, bringing them back to Wokha. Not as slaves, but as free people, or as free as being under the rule of pirates would allow. At 30 he had taken control of a neighboring system, Thazi, that was a lush, fertile planet with a single massive continent. On that system, he controlled just over 150,000 people who farmed massive farms that allowed monthly shipments back to Wokha. 
By 35, he was no longer leading raids or conquest but was ruling a 2 system "nation". He provided maintenance of Jumpships and Dropships at his Olympus Station for various pirate bands and other would-be bandit kings, but for a price. He also traded mined gold, silver and even excess food to those bandits in exchange for them doing the raiding for whatever he needed. He was able to maintain a large force by providing a good lifestyle for his people. They might be way out near nowhere, but they had most of the modern creature comforts, courtesy of inter pirate trading. But that did not mean they were soft, while rare, sometimes another band would try to make off without paying, or even try a takeover or raid. This always resulted in the offending band being hunted down and destroyed.
The Olympus Recharge Station was kept fully operational by stripping what parts were needed from other stations, of which, there was quite a few derelict stations in the Wastes. When his parents had taken control of the system, they had discovered that the people here had a working Dropship, a Jumbo Dropship, but no Jumpships. They had maintained their ship repair skills by keeping it functional and by repairing the odd arrival. Once they had "won" the locals trust, they learned of another Dropship in system, along with a totally wrecked mining station, on which it was docked. They had tried for years to recover the unknown Dropship, but all attempts had failed. They could not even get the computers to fire up. The remains of the Dropship crew and those from the station had long been packed into a storage container still secured to the mining stations cargo hold. Everything else had long been picked clean.
He kept an Overlord Class Dropship and Merchant Class Jumpship in each system which enabled him to reinforce the other system if it was needed.
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Waste Raiders 
Wokha
-1 Battlemech Battalion (Medium)
-1 Armor Battalion (Light)
-2 Aerospace Squadrons
-1 Infantry Battalion
-2 Merchant Jumpships
-1 Overlord Dropship
-1 Leopard CV Dropship
-1 Mule Dropship
-1 Jumbo Dropship
Thazi
-1 Battlemech Battalion (Medium)
-1 Armor Company (Heavy)
-1 Infantry Battalion
-1 Aerospace Squadron
-2 Squadron Conventional Fighters
-1 Merchant Jumpship
-1 Overlord Dropship
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