The Alerozak Galactic Flotilla

## History

### Description

This was created by Jonathan, Kiley, and Luis through playing Microscope by Ben Robbins. The partial recording of this game was released as bonus content for their Ko-Fi subscribers.

#### Disappearance of the SPS Resonance

This is the chosen starting bookend for our game of Microscope. This time coincides with the events of the end of Prequel Part V.

#### The Great Chaos (Dark)

##### Factions Push to Eliminate Piracy (Dark)

**Event:** The Tawhid League decimates 40% of the remaining SPS affiliated pirates. (Dark)

**Event:** Political protests start against the Tawhid League for killing pirates. (Light)

Scene:

* Question: How do the pirates react to the Tawhid League?
* Stage: The Fleet Cruiser of a powerful pirate.
* Characters:
	+ The Scavenger
	+ A Representative of the Tawhid League
	+ A Future Spiral Captain
		- Captain Ketanndu. He/Him. Awenimo. Future Spiral Captain of Audacity, is within its mean. Chose to garner a peaceful public opinion through the protests.
	+ A Representative of the Protesters
		- Karbala, She/Her, Mahaliyin. Leads the Peoples Unite Front (PUF) in Pazakaya in response to the violence conducted by the Tawhid League.
	+ A Pirate
		- Marina Ollaya Sastre. She/Her. Young Adult. Tijari. Daughter of Reina Nydia Olalla Sastre of the SPS Resonance. Crew member of Captain Ketanndu. Her father was destroyed in the attack on the SPS by the Tawhid League.
* Result: The pirates view the Tawhid League as powerful, but able to be undermined. They will turn this into a political fight rather than a physical conflict.

Event: Marina decides to achieve a position where she can protect the SPS remnants in a more agressive manner than suggested by Captain Ketanndu.

Legacy Event: Captain Ketanndu starts the effort to create unity among other pirates to combat the major factions of the sector. (Light)

The Careening (Light)

Event: The Founding of the Alerozak Galactic Flotilla (Light)

Scene:

* Question: How is the Agreement to form the AGF reached?
* Stage: Alerozak BARge (aka A BARge)
* Characters:
	+ Captain Ketanndu
	+ Captain Tsuzune
		- She/Her. Bikaku (spider wasp appearance). Future Spiral Captain of Ingenuity, leans toward Boorishness (excess). Was a pirate outside of the SPS.
	+ Bar owner/tender
		- Judas "The Critic" Auterie. He/Him. Elderly. Cousin of The Scavenger.
	+ Captain Beatrice Butler
		- She/Her. Wercyn. Captain of the Ridley. Future Spiral Captain of Sanguinity, leans toward futility (deficient).
	+ Captain Phikos Spiros
		- They/Them. Terogean (Deep Purple and Gold Feathers). Future Spiral Captain of Veracity, leans toward mockery (deficient).
	+ Captain Dmitri Gurov
		- He/Him. Neloyan. Future Spiral Captain of Solidarity, is within its mean.
* Result: Multiple Meetings at the Alerozak BARge until all the captains agree to work together as a new power entirely and a system of light checks and balances is established to avoid the same fate as pirates of the past. (Light)

Event: Three months after the meetings that formed the basis of the AGF, Spiral Arms of Veracity and Ingenuity work together, leading to the first successful engagement against the major factions of the sector. (Light)

Legacy Event: The Flotilla is physically constructed, but resources are thin making construction difficult. (Dark)

Legacy Event: Judas betrays the patrons of his bar and leaks information to the Tawhid League about where the Flotilla is being built, leading to its destruction. Resources even thinner when creating the second, and current, version of the flotilla. (Dark)

Event: The First Election of Spiral Captains (Light). The previous characters listed as "Future" Spiral Captains are officially instated at this time.

Period: The Principality of Vitr begins Colonization Efforts in Xvrak Warlords controlled space.

Event: The Principality of Vitr creates super drug Trioka, which gives brief access to psionic ability at the exponential cost of sanity per use, distributing it to Xvrak people and gaining 75% of their controlled space. (Dark)

Event: The AGF steals cargo from a Principality of Vitr ship, obtaining Trioka for the first time. (Light)

Period: The Psionic Super Drug Trioka Becomes Mainstream. (Dark)

Event: The AGF creates a task force to discover the origins of Trioka and attempts to reduce/ remove it from the mainstream. (Light)

Event: AGF Task force establishes itself as a new Spiral Arm known as Theology, with the traits Indoctrination (excess) and Denial (deficient).

Legacy Event: In extreme excess, the Theology Spiral Captain gathers their entire arm in their fleet cruiser the AGF Rapture and flies into a star, killing everyone. (Dark)

Period: Period of Unrest. (Dark)

Event: Veracity crews secure major victory against an invading Sovereignties of Quetzelonia Fleet, taking a large haul of trophies and entering Boastfulness (excess). (Dark).

Event: Sovereignties of Quetzelonia ally with Tawhid League against piracy. (Dark)

Scene:

* Question: What made the Sovereignties of Quetzelonia ally with the Tawhid League?
* Stage: An emergency meeting with the heads of each Sovereignty.
* Characters:
	+ Queen Temilade of Barbalil.
	+ Karlia Moongold of Encunda.
	+ High Chancellor Voracia of Tudega.
	+ High Priest Estevan Guerra of Zalisco.
* Result: Constant attacks from pirates are leading to loss of tourism and economic depression across the entirety of Quetzelonia, it must be put to an end by any means necessary, even if it means allying with their fiercest rival in the sector, the Tawhid League.
	+ Note: High Chancellor Voracia of Tudega dissents on the opinion. They have a strong source of psionic resources that make them believe they will not be affected, or at the very least, do not need to ally for increased strength.

Legacy Event: This meeting was too high profile and public for Karlia Moongold. She retires her position of power to the Council of Vallusia on Encunda, secretly puppeteering them from the shadows. (Dark)

Event: Layla Naser (cousin of Spiral Captain Phikos) marries Rahim Saleh (early adopter of a secret society on the AGF called Habverit Bibens). (Light)

Event: Habverit Bibens spreads throughout the AGF. Rahim gains influence as an originator of Habverit Bibens, becoming the self proclaimed Lord of Habverit Bibens. (Dark)

Event: Karlia Moongold's organization of assassins known as "The Silver Hand" infiltrate Habverit Bibens. (Dark)

Event: The Silver Hand assassinates Rahim Saleh. (Light)

Legacy Event: Habverit Bibens' elimination leads to the creation of the Spiral Arm of Partiality, measured by Indulgence (excess) and Indifference (deficient). The widowed Layla Saleh becomes the Spiral Captain of Partiality, seeking to prevent others in the Flotilla from falling to the same fate as her late husband. (Light)

Event: Six Spiral Arm Stalemate in Leadership of the AGF. (Dark)

Period: The Spiral War (Dark)

Event: After a long period of constant stalemates, all Spiral Arms enter excess. (Dark)

Event: Spiral Captain Ketanndu dies in a job gone wrong, his own arm is determined to be at fault. (Dark)

Event: Spiral Arm of Audacity goes into deficiency (cowardice) and blames the existence of the AGF for the death of its originator. (Dark)

Scene:

* Question: Who will become the new Spiral Captain of Audacity?
* Stage: The Funeral of Spiral Captain Ketanndu.
* Characters:
	+ Marina Olalla Sastre
	+ PUF Leader Karbala
	+ All Spiral Captains
	+ The Scavenger (finally laying to rest the corpse of Tyra's friend after forgetting about their remains since before the SPS Resonance disappeared.)
	+ Result: Marina is elected the Spiral Captain of Audacity, leaning Reckless (excess). With fierce competition from PUF Leader Karbala, and the impending doom of other six way tiebreakers, a the Spiral Arm of Dependability is created and Karbala is elected Spiral Captain, and leans Predictable (excess). (Light)

Legacy Event: Late Spiral Captain Ketanndu's birthday is posthumously declared a holiday for the AGF. (Light)

Period: Period of Deficiency (Dark)

Event: With it's new Seven Spiral Arm Structure, the AGF can once again pass Spiral Ordinances to reduce the overwhelming excess the Flotilla is experiencing. This leads to an over correction that puts every Spiral Arm deficient. (Dark)

Event: Unknown amount of time where record keeping and general history is incomplete or entirely inaccurate. (Dark)

Event: The Zoo Coup. Animal companions of the pirates take over the AGF for a period of six months. Their reign of terror only ends because they will it to end. Somewhere in the Flotilla is an unkempt statue portraying the once in power Animal Spiral Captains. (No one is sure of the impact this had on the fleet in terms of Light or Dark).

Event: Spiral Captains recognize the lack of unity that cannot be solves simply with Spiral Ordinances. This leads to the creation of The Nexus, a central hub where all arms of the Flotilla come together as one. (Light)

Event: Middle management roles are created to assist in maintaining stability of each arm. These become known as the Cluster Captains. (Light)

Event: The Cluster Captains create the AGF Cooperative Games to help foster the newly found unity. (Light) A Su'Degh named Esha Chauhan (She/They), is the overall winner of the first AGF Cooperative Games, becoming a celebrity among the Flotilla.

Event: The Ingenuity deficient crew of the AGF Hypostasis ventures into The Great Void and discovers the planet Nedrak orbiting the anomaly known as The Spine. (Light/Dark)

Event: The Crew of the AGF Hypostasis returns to relay their discovery, but no one believes them. (Dark)

Legacy Event: The AGF Hypostasis recovered objects from Nedrak.

Period: Period of Stability (Light)

Event: Ingenuity, Audacity, and Veracity work together to improve on uncommon stealth technology for their ships. (Light)

Event: The Nexus and other shared spaces are built upon creating stronger bonds between all of the arms. (Light)

Final Bookend: The Children of the Spine arrive at the Alerozak Galactic Flotilla

## Structure

The AGF is divided into 7 segments known as the Spiral Arms connected to a central area known as The Nexus. The structure of the nexus is constant, living quarters above, markets in the center, ship repair shops below, and encompassed by the few permanent structures of the Spiral Arms. The Spiral Arms however are fluid, and their contents ebb and flow with the ships that dock to them.

## Hierarchy

While having a hierarchy for a pirate fleet feels counterintuitive, the AGF determined it necessary to preserve the pirate lifestyle in the wake of mass destruction brought by the major factions of the sector.

### Spiral Captains

The leaders of each of the 7 Spiral Arms. They are the only ones who make ordinances for the rest of the AGF and they vote based on the golden mean of their arms to keep the flotilla from entering excess or deficiency and becoming noticed, or hunted, by the major factions.

Audacity Spiral Captain -

Solidarity Spiral Captain -

Partiality Spiral Captain -

Veracity Spiral Captain -

Ingenuity Spiral Captain -

Dependability Spiral Captain -

Sanguinity Spiral Captain -

### Cluster Captains

Cluster Captains are the second highest ranking in the AGF. These represent the 3 strongest or most influential crews from each of the Spiral Arms.

Audacity Cluster Captains -

Solidarity Cluster Captains -

Partiality Cluster Captains -

Veracity Cluster Captains -

Ingenuity Cluster Captains -

Dependability Cluster Captains -

Sanguinity Cluster Captains -

### Stellar Captains

Stellar Captains are the average crews of the AGF. Any number of Stellar Crews may exist within each arm, and their defining trait is that they are allowed to travel and adventure of their own will, unlike the last ranking Orbital Crews. Below is a list of currently encountered Stellar Captains within the story.

Audacity Stellar Captains -

Solidarity Stellar Captains -

Partiality Stellar Captains -

Veracity Stellar Captains -

Ingenuity Stellar Captains -

Dependability Stellar Captains -

Sanguinity Stellar Captains -

### Orbital Captains

Orbital Captains are the lowest ranking leaders of the AGF. This designation is generally much fewer in number than the Stellar Crews, in that Orbital Crews are intended for those new to the structure of the AGF. They are defined by their inability to leave a planet or region without permission of a higher ranking Captain and are generally locked in place as sentries or until they finish a specific task. Although some pirates prefer this role, and their low ranking is not a reflection of their experience or capabilities as a pirate. On rare occasions the ranking of Orbital Crew is used as a punishment for transgressions against the greater mission of the AGF, on even more rare occasion forcibly so, by downgrading a ships spike drive to a standard drive incapable of leaving a stellar system without being picked up by a Stellar Crew. Below is a list of currently encountered Orbital Captains within the story.

Audacity Orbital Captains -

Solidarity Orbital Captains -

Partiality Orbital Captains -

Veracity Orbital Captains -

Ingenuity Orbital Captains -

Dependability Orbital Captains -

Sanguinity Orbital Captains -

### Crew Positions

Within any crew are the following positions and their responsibilities as part of the crew. Hierarchical structure here is loose, generally with only the Captain and First mate having any major rank over the other crew members, if any are treated as lesser at all.

Captain - Fills Captain Actions in Ship Combat

First Mate - Fills Communications Actions in Ship Combat

Navigator - Fills Bridge Actions in Ship Combat

Shipwright - Fills Engineering Actions in Ship Combat

Gunner - Fills Gunner Actions in Ship Combat

Doctor - Fills Support Actions in Ship Combat

Cook - Necessary to be able to gain new crew

Ship - Just as much of a crew member as everyone else and the pirate of the AGF are quick to remind others of that.