Tripoli Shipyard

CLASS: Fundamento

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

CREW: 480

In the earliest days of the Corsair raids on the houses, many bases and ships did not have any kind of defenses or escort at all. While the most common Corsair tactic was to pillage whatever they could carry back home and leave the rest as wreckage, some of their more bold raids boarded and took over entire ships. The Corsairs didn't have much use for unarmed transports once their cargo had been transferred, so they were set adrift in Omicron Gamma. The Corsairs realised that these ships themselves could be a valuable source of materials if they could be stripped down, and set out to build a space-based facility for this purpose. At the time, the Corsairs did not posess the technology or resources to build an entire base from scratch, so they improvised, hollowing out a largest asteroid in the Tenerife asteroid field.

Tripoli Shipyard, as it came to be known, spent the next two centuries doing what it was built to do, that is to strip down captured ships, send whatever material is worth saving to Crete, to be used in the construction of more fighters, and eject the worthless chunks into the Tenerife field. This debris, mostly large sheets of twisted hull plating, settled around the station.

Tripoli's role changed slowly in the last century, as the Corsairs started to experiment with larger ships that could not be built on Crete. The yard was expanded, a large construction moor added, and the base's role changed from salvage yard to ship production. Currently, it handles the construction of midsized ships, but it can repair ships of any size.

## News

They cowardly waited for our forces to be dispersed between various theaters, the latest one being the Outcast return to Omicron Theta, and took advantage of our inability to crush them like the pests they are.
Special orders were relayed to Battleship Delos in Theta to coordinate additional patrols in the Amarus Cloud to interfere with their shipments of Gammu materials as much as possible.

The Elders have authorised the deployment of elements of the Omicron Gamma defence fleet to respond to the Outcast invasion and secure our borders. These elite fighters are more than a match for the drug-addled Outcasts and will hold the line until the Northern and Southern Fleets complete their assignments in Dresden and Dublin.
The Battleship Delos has been dispatched to the system to coordinate our counter-attack and avenge the loss of the Fes. The Elders have announced that a great honor will be bestowed upon the pilots responsible for the destruction of the Outcast Battlecruiser Augusta.

The Zoners seem to have prevented this previously by importing Fertilizers from the Houses. Similarly, Crete, Leon and Cadiz are facing a shortage of Pharmaceuticals, complicating the treatment of our casualties. The Zoners now refuse to sell us these goods, so we must look elsewhere to obtain what we need.
The Elders have decreed that the raiding fleets are to redouble their efforts in Cambridge, and make new inroads into the Frankfurt system. Petra Base in Sigma 15 is to be reinforced, and the Fertilizer convoys from Planet Holstein treated as priority targets.
The Corsairs have always prized strength, and we have the strength to take what we need from the weak. Prosperity is there to be seized.

The death of Juan Garcia was but the latest in a line of killings by the Bounty Hunters Guild, abetted by the Zoners who provide them with safe harbor. The Elders have decided: no more. One opportunity was offered for the Zoners to make amends for their transgressions, and instead they chose to ignore our reasonable demands. Last night, Freeport 9 was boarded and the station administration placed under arrest.
From this day forward, the biodomes will provide exclusively for the Corsairs, and the docking bays will admit only those we allow. Fortunately, our ancient enemies the Outcasts appear to be preoccupied with a self-inflicted revolt on their poisonous planet. By the time they turn their focus back to the Omicrons, we will be secure in our conquest.

Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off.
While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes.

For decades the Zoners of Freeport 9 have kept themselves safe from Corsair reprisals by offering useful services, with their biodomes providing Crete with respite from the famines that once ravished it. Despite this, outrage has swept Omicron Gamma after a flight of Hunters killed Commander Juan Garcia, before retreating back to the No Fire Zones of Omicron Theta.
The Council of Elders have ordered the administrator of Freeport 9 to attend Planet Crete to hear their demands. Elder Garcia has vowed that the station's halls would "run red with blood" unless the Zoners turned over all BHG aboard the Freeport. The Zoners are yet to respond, likely trying to anticipate how the Corsairs will react.

The Corsairs see the Pygar colony as a direct competitor for the region's scarce resources, with Elder Garcia warning that there would be "dire consequences" should Freeport 9's biodomes reduce or divert their exports to Planet Crete. Whispers of alien ruins and Artifacts discovered below Pygar's surface may also antagonize the Corsairs, who rely on the Artifact trade as a source of wealth. The hardship of Pygar's extreme conditions and the uneasy relationship with the Corsairs has already led many colonists to consider a return to the now liberated Gran Canaria.

In his later years, Montoya would act as a steadying hand on the Council of Elders, counseling against rash decisions and reckless action. The Council has since inducted Elder Rosita Garcia to their number. As she commemorated the launch of the Battlecruiser Santander, she declared that "Sirius shall be set alight as a pyre in Montoya's honor". The Santander and its squadrons have been dispatched to pillage Bretonia.

"The standing Navy of the Corsair Empire as well as its irregular raiders must do everything within their means to break existing stalemates or make progress. The enemies of Crete have grown arrogant and take for granted that Corsair offensives have lost their steam, this is an assessment which must be proved woefully wrong."
In response to these express instructions, activity across every Corsair installation has intensified to levels that suggest substantial mobilization.

## Rumors

* Now that our shipyard is operational, we have begun gathering the components to build a biodome. If we could have one of those domes under direct control of the Corsairs, none of us would ever want again. It would be a new age, a time without hunger. Even now we come closer and closer to it.

* Cadiz is an important base for the Corsairs. It is one of our primary supply depots from which we receive many Commodities.

* As the number of captured ships grew, we realized that a shipyard was needed to repair damaged vessels and build ships from stolen components and spare parts. We began to gather modules together and steal the goods necessary for the construction of this shipyard, which you can see is quite operational.

* The war with the Red Hessians in Omega-5 has cost the Corsairs many ships and pilots. Death is the way of the Corsair, so the lost pilots are regrettable yet acceptable. Much worse is the loss of their ships, which are often passed from one generation to the next. This shipyard is constantly running at full operational capacity to build new fighters for the front.

* In 450 AS we captured our first ship. It was the Rheinland exploration vessel *Schiller*. Once we dispatched the crew the ship was ours, and more inner colony ships began to disappear. The Corsairs had begun a legacy that lasts to this day. We are pirates; we take what we need.

* We get many different goods and basic supplies from the Freeports in nearby zones. Often times it is easier to buy what we need with Artifact income than to steal it.

* Newport supplies us with several essential Commodities. We get a majority of our Optronics, Side Arms, and Basic Alloys from that base.

* The Corsairs and Outcasts are the survivors of the *Hispania*. Half of the crew left in smaller ships and crawled into Sirius; they became the Corsairs. The rest of the *Hispania* crew kept the ship running until it limped close enough to Sirius to abandon; they became the Outcasts. More than fifty percent of both groups died in the first two years after planetfall.

* Within the Malvadas Cloud you'll find a Jump Hole leading to Omicron Theta. There is another Jump Hole in this system in the Walker Cloud. Be careful, there are mines scattered among the carbon asteroids, but once past those you'll come upon the Jump Hole to Omega-41.

* Engine Components, Construction Machinery, and Gold are Commodities that are crucial to our ship-building operations here. They are either stolen or purchased from Trafalgar and shipped here.

* IMG prospectors have been sneaking into the system recently, looking for Artifacts. They don't understand whose space they are entering, until we catch them. Then their last few moments are spent thinking deeply about the subject. The Artifact trade is our resource; anyone who endangers it must be killed.

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