Trident Foundries

Trident logo used since mid-2316, modified late 2317.

### Subsidiaries

Trident Armada; Infinite FleetWorks; Angel Works Shipyard; City-Gate Security; Aesthetican Navy; Pegakitty Empire

### Major Enemies

Vaygr Empire; Formiden Colonial Mandate; Asteroids

### Alignment

Neutral Good

The **Trident Foundries** (abbreviated **TRF**, **TF** or simply **Trident**) is an interstellar starship production company and military force, operating from station TRS *Quieros* in the SoE Galaxy. Trident's current CEO is Jake Lancia.

This iteration of Trident has inherited the name, style and leaders of the former Trident Industries  and are known for producing and supplying highly efficient and optimised vessels to both the open market and for their extensive military force. They have fleets of these vessels to call on in times of emergency. Trident's income in 2318 was $90 billion interstellar credits.

In 2317, Trident absorbed the smaller factions Aesthetican Navy  and Pegakitty Empire, as well as the Angel Works Shipyard, and in 2318 absorbed the RedEagle Confederacy, which helped to diversify the shipbuilding part of Trident and allowed for a more diverse range of ships than would previously been possible.

Trident is a founding faction of the Union of Intergalactic States.

## Description

A former offshoot of the faction union Trinova Technologies , Trident Foundries is a society in its own right that produces vessels for both it's own military and for the open market. Trident is a large company and civilization that specializes in small and medium-sized vessels.

## Demographs

### Ethnicity

#### Human

Trident's civilian population is mainly human, with approximately 20 billion residing on major planets and colony/city ships. Many of these humans are descendants of the first Trident colonies.

#### Other races

There are also 5 billion citizens of varying race, who all contribute to Trident in different ways. In addition, this has given Trident a diverse range of starships, both civilian and military, as designers of all the different races strive to build the best ships possible for Trident. The Aestheticans are by far the largest non-human culture in Trident.

#### Population

The total population across all of Trident's territories and holdings is 26 billion citizens. Approximately half of these are part of the Trident Star Navy, half of the remainder work in the R+D sector, and the rest work vital civilian jobs.

#### Income

The average income for Trident citizens is G$150,000 per annum.

## Politics

### Government

The dual leadership of Jake Lancia and Mr Crazy is a tried and true combo that is more than sufficient at leading the faction. Aesthetics of the former Aesthetican Navy holds an advisory position .

### Foreign Relations

Trident allows foreign embassies in its starbases and on its planets. The Trident Diplomatic Corps handles Trident's sensitive diplomacy and negotiations. In addition the *Freedom II* is equipped to host diplomatic parties and is well suited for establishing relations with other factions.

### Military

Trident maintains an extensive military force. Renewed public interest in homeland defense has expanded the previously small Trident military to encompass about half of all Trident citizens. The Trident Star Navy is now a large and powerful war machine.

## Fleet

*Main article: Ships manufactured by Trident Industries*

Trident's fleet is highly diverse; this is due to the many different Trident-held corporations, planetary shipyards and subsidiaries that produce ships for Trident use.

### Design Philosophy

Many of Trident's newer ships such as the *Warspite*-class Heavy Destroyer follow a militant philosophy, and are much more heavily defended than equivalent old Trident ships. Their ships are overall more powerful but still less durable than many other factions' ships.

They often field highly experimental ships in the front lines before extensive tests have been established, which has led to several catastrophic failures throughout Trident's history.

Trident's weapons tech had seen significant improvement in 2316. Their heavy use of phase cannons and powerful alpha damage plasma cannons is partly responsible for this improvement.

## History

*Main Article (pre-history): Trident Industries*

### 2316

In April, the decision was made to resurrect Trident as a shipyard and semi-autonomous corporation. The new corporation was to be named Trident Foundries and would carry over the name and distinctive style of the former Trident Industries.

Eventually, with mounting pressure and lack of confidence in the NFD-backed leadership of Trinova, and with the desire to wage war more effectively, Trident Foundries became a fully autonomous faction in July, entirely separate from Trinova and without it's jurisdiction.  With this separation, Trident took on several members from the NFD side of Trinova too who felt similarly to the Trident members, in addition to recruiting former privateers Azereiah  and Nauvran  to the cause.

Also in July, Trident set up a presence in the LvD Galaxies and the recently cleansed NASS Galaxies.

In mid-July Trident forces in the LvD Galaxies came under attack from forces of the Vaygr Empire and Mortarian Legion , and lost several personnel as well as a mining vessel. The Odium fleet went on to then attack Formiden Colonial Mandate.

Later that month, Captain Tankman joined up, bringing his Angel Works shipyard brand with him. Angel Works went on to produce some fine Trident warships including the *Venice*-class.

In early August Trident forces joined Trinova and FCM in setting up in the war-torn TAW Galaxies. By mid-September two *Brawler*-class vessels (TRV *Excelsior* and TRV *Lakota*) and an *Eris*-class (TRV *York*) had been constructed and ready for war.

In late September, Trident forces led by Jake also assisted the Trinovan vessel TTS *Blue Ridge* with destroying several Vaygr drone fleets and the theft of a Synch-Tron Corporation cargo ship , but were unable to prevent the stranglehold on Trinova's territory caused by Vaygr's policy of aggressive expansion. The TAW Galaxies later collapsed. Azereiah left Trident due to this event.

Not long afterwards, Jake and the leaders of Trinova Technologies, RedEagle and the Aethi Imperium formed the Union of Intergalactic States.

In late December, Trident expeditionary forces set up shop in the Elwyn Galaxies once again.

### 2317

In early January, the Aesthetican Navy voluntarily agreed to be absorbed into Trident Foundries, with the Poseidon Act completed and signed in late January . The agreement effectively stated that Aesthetica was now a devolved state in the jurisdiction of Trident. The agreement also gave Trident engineers access to several powerful Aesthetican warships.

In early March, Trident expeditionary forces set up shop in the LCB Galaxies. Several *Brawler*-class vessels were hurriedly constructed in anticipation of conflict, one of which is the TRV *Deliverance*of the *Deliverance Brawler* refit. In addition, resource shipments were sent to Trinova and Aethi Imperium expeditionary forces that set up later that month.

Also in March, Trident were involved in a dispute with the occupying Formiden Colonial Mandate forces after the FCM's allies mysteriously lost contact with several of their TCUs and subsequently blamed Trident. Zyrr of FCM immediately declared war and destroyed several Trident TCUs until Trinova member and temporary resource manager Nedral managed to appease him with a resource donation. Trident member Master Artificer was blamed for the whole ordeal by Zyrr , however he had been cleared of wrongdoing after a thorough investigation.

Not long afterwards, several more warships were completed including Aesthetics' personal vessel TRV *Vindicator* and the class prototype of the *Crusader*class. The LCB Galaxies were subsequently lost.

In early July, Trident expeditionary forces arrived in the LvD Galaxies once again to assess potential for resettling.

In late August and September, Trident leadership took an active interest in the LvD Galaxies again, after several successful Trinova combat ops there revealed the extent of the Darkside militaries. Lancia constructed six *Avenger*-class Frigates, including the class prototype TRV *Avenger*, in the galaxies following yet another successful op by FlyingDebris. The TRV *Avenger* was present during a successful capture of several strategic Darkside facilities by Debris  and remained Lancia's command ship afterwards until the TRV *Cerberus* of the *Cerberus*-class was ready. The TRV *Devastator* was piloted by Plaz as he and Lancia assaulted Novminer criminal elements with a small Trident/Trinova fleet in tow, where the accompanying *Avenger*-class, TRV *Icarus*, and the Trinova vessel TTS *Rhineland*, sustained minor damage to weapons fire. The *Icarus* was then repaired, and all of the fleet was dragged to another galaxy in the cluster, to prepare for the combat that was likely to happen there.

Not long after the fleet arrived in the next galaxy, the class prototype for the *Warspite*-class was constructed, and the TRV *Jutlandia* was then also repaired and put back to operational service after suffering a cascade system failure a few weeks before.

In late October, Trident expeditionary forces set up in the FRU Galaxies to assess the viability of colonisation. To their surprise, a neutral party supplied three large miners to the three Expeditionary members, which greatly accelerated the speed at which Trident set up in the cluster. It was later revealed that the 'neutral party' that supplied the miners was an enemy of Trinova and of the UIS, giving the miners out under the false assumption that the Expeditionary members were neutral settlers. Within several days, four state-of-the-art *Warspite*-class vessels were deployed.

On the 31st December, Lancia, Plaz, Hamma1, Verynian, and RedEagle members MeRobo and The\_Owl raided the hostile faction 'Guardians of the Galaxy' using the four *Warspite*s and stole their flagship, GotG *Burning Amber*, from their territory. The ship was given to RedEagle to accelerate their development.

### 2318

Lancia, Plaz, hamma1 and Verynian began stepping up operations in the FRU Cluster after more hostile factions revealed themselves, the most prominent two being Dark Mechanicus and BALTEX.

Trident Chief of Operations Verynian and Vice President Plaz made vast attempts to clean up TRS *Regulus*, installing new systems and clearing the surrounding space of pirate structures, with active deployment being mandatory for a short period.

Later, Lancia, Plaz and Trinova leader FlyingDebris also responded to a distress call from a neutral faction that had a Dark Mechanicus vessel attacking it. All three were affected by a spatial phenomena known as 'lag', and their ships were temporarily disabled. Debris called in Dragonslayer918 for assistance, and Plaz called in hamma1. Dragon took control of Debris' *Quark*-class vessel and began pursuing, with Lancia, captaining the recovered TRV *Intrepid*, close behind. Lancia and Dragon chased down the Dark Mechanicus 73k mass vessel, but were unable to prevent it escaping. Plaz later recovered his vessel too.

Not long after that, hamma1's *Kirishima*-class scout ship was fired on and destroyed by Calhoun of the League of Australian Shitposters, as a form of revenge for the attack on his asteroid years before.

Following, Verynian's TRV *Chrysalis* was heavily damaged in an encounter with an unknown strikeforce, suspected to have been one of the last BALTEX squadrons before their internal coup d'etat and reformation. Disabling vessels, he managed to retreat and later returned to destroy what remained of their union.

When Calhoun of the LAS challenged Lancia to a fight on the 8th, he headed to TRS *Regulus*. However, FlyingDebris had detected Calhoun's *Vindicator*-class cruiser on an intercept course to *Regulus*, so he scrambled TTS *McKinley* and made it there before Calhoun, and engaged and destroyed the smaller vessel with no loss or damage.

After January 20 Trident, like the rest of the UIS, retired itself to a minimal existence as the fleet underwent a complete rebuild and refit program.

In July, Trident remnants reformed under the Dominion of Trident banner, however quickly abandoned the "Dominion" name and returned to the Trident Foundries name.

### 2319

In February in the Cake Galaxies, Plaz and Lancia came out of retirement to begin construction on a new, massive vessel called the *Independent*-class.

### 2320

In mid-February, Trident returned to the LvD Galaxies.

After setting up their new station TRS *Sirius Shipyards*, the faction came under attack from an Arstotzkan vessel piloted by Premier Comr4de, then a task force of three *Leipzig*-class vessels. The unprovoked attack escalated the UIS-ARS cold war into fully-blown armed conflict.

### 2321

Little happened in Trident during 2321, with the faction focusing on rebuilding efforts.

In early November, Trident expeditionary forces arrived in the SoE Galaxy.

On the 16th of November, the *Gladius*-class vessel TRV *Quieros Shield* engaged and sank the sloop *N'Gow Nimoy* in the outer reaches of the Quieros system in the SoE Galaxy*,* killing its commander.

In early December, hostilities broke out between Trident and a faction called The Shattered, after Trident received intelligence that Shattered's war with Star Tribes had damaged public warp gate infrastructure; a Trident task force consisting of *Quieros Shield*, *Spatha* and *Kopis* was sent into Shattered's territory, and eliminated a military warp gate station. The same task force also entered Star Tribes territory but found no undamaged military targets.

#### First Battle of Quieros

On the 14th of December, a flotilla of destroyers consisting of *Quieros Shield, Kopis, Pilum, Lucenia* and *Spatha* engaged the Shattered light cruiser *Arrakis Infinite* around TRS *Quieros*. *Pilum* is credited as sinking *Arrakis Infinite*. During the engagement, the flotilla was ambushed by a *Kadsura*-class cruiser, which opened up upon the flotilla with beam fire. In short order, both *Kopis* and *Pilum* were sunk. *Spatha* was heavily damaged during her withdrawal, and *Quieros Shield* sustained moderate damage. Upon their return, *Spatha* and *Quieros Shield* were scrapped, the damage deemed too severe to feasibly repair; and the wreckage of *Pilum* was recovered by friendly forces shortly afterwards, the reactor having failed to overload. *Lucenia* was then decommissioned and turned into a museum ship.

Shortly afterward, on the 19th of December, a Shattered agent returned to TRS *Quieros* to try and do more damage, they were quickly defeated by the array of ODTPs around the station.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jake Lancia, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trident-foundries-recruiting.26905/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Aesthetics, The Poseidon Act: http://i.imgur.com/ftqy0MP
3. ↑ FlyingDebris, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trinova-technologies-join-today-nfd-trident-industries-merger.22426/
4. ↑ Jake Lancia, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trinova-technologies-join-today-nfd-trident-industries-merger.22426/page-19#post-296055
5. ↑ Azereiah/Winterhome, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trident-foundries-peace-prosperity-integrity.25812/
6. ↑ Nauvran, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trident-foundries-peace-prosperity-integrity.25812/#post-296110
7. ↑ RedAlert\_007, A History of Factions [2016]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NcsShaBJoGM1NBTk-o-uvdiLSramqPqja8ePC6N6hrs/edit
8. ↑ FlyingDebris, A History of Factions [2016]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NcsShaBJoGM1NBTk-o-uvdiLSramqPqja8ePC6N6hrs/edit
9. ↑ Jake Lancia, screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/4lULPxe.png
10. ↑ Jake Lancia, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trident-foundries-recruiting.26905/page-2#post-350237
11. ↑ Jake Lancia, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trident-foundries-recruiting.26905/page-3#post-360655
12. ↑ Jake Lancia, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/trident-foundries-recruiting.26905/page-4#post-361202
13. ↑ RedAlert\_007, StarMade Dock: https://starmadedock.net/threads/the-league-of-australian-shitposters.29419/page-7#post-361118
14. ↑ Jake Lancia, Discord: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/900132661870342145/910624552458027038/starmade-screenshot-0001.png
15. ↑ Latterous, Discord: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/646785923853582355/920424841109188638/starmade-screenshot-0283.png
16. ↑ Latterous, Discord: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/646785923853582355/920424841423773787/starmade-screenshot-0284.png
17. ↑ Latterous, Discord: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/646785923853582355/920424841767710790/starmade-screenshot-0286.png
18. ↑ Latterous, Discord: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/646785923853582355/920424842916950066/starmade-screenshot-0293.png
19. ↑ Jake Lancia, Discord: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/646785923853582355/920437885440766003/starmade-screenshot-0060.png
20. ↑ MeRobo, Discord: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/208262166254583816/922192385063129088/unknown.png