Crazy North Logistics

Crazy North Logistics, or CNL for short, are a ship-building organization allied with RWI (Red Wood Industries). They fought alongside RWI during the entirety of the Green Drone War, although many of their worlds and fleets were lost in the intense battles of the galaxy-wide conflict. Nevertheless, CNL remained a persistent force in the galaxy throughout the war. After the war’s end, CNL joined up with RWI and another allied faction, RCSP (Royal Coalition of Spatial Protection), to form the Joint Expedition Task Force and explore a mysterious signal.

## History

### Colony Connection

After RWI Captain Jack Roberts left RWI, he founded a colony on an Earth-like planet. His good friend, Dr. Craz, joined him. Craz was once a well-known member of CNL, being an architect of many of their ships. Craz built and utilized several CNL vehicles over the course of the Colony’s adventures.

### Green Drone War

Once the deadly Green Drone Armada made themselves known in the galaxy, CNL made ready to fight them alongside RWI and RCSP. Since RCSP was heavily weakened near the start of the war, CNL and RWI were left to fight alone. CNL took losses to several fleets over the early stages, and they abandoned several planets such as Ravcor, a savage lava world where they lost a carrier, the *Vanessa*, and a few other ships. As CNL began using guerrilla tactics to fight the GDA, RWI was left fighting the brunt of the GDA onslaught alone.

#### Battle of Demus

After the RWI *Valiant* and the RWI *Eclipse*, under the command of Captain Jack Roberts and Commander Craz, now officially RWI crewmen again, succeeded in stealing the Artifact, an ancient device worshipped by the GDA leadership, from the Green Drone base on Ravcor, they emerged in a nebula near the ice planet Demus in need of assistance. They managed to broadcast a distress call from a radar station, and both RWI and CNL responded with a few ships as reinforcements. CNL made it first, sending two frigates to aid the RWI team. Though both frigates and their crews were lost, they managed to buy time for the RWI *Discovery* to arrive and evacuate the Artifact back to RWI space.

#### Ghost Ship

Some time later, the crew of the RWI *Eclipse* stole a GDA Destroyer from a shipyard above Demus. In need of a place to wait for RWI reinforcements, they jumped to a planet where they discovered a derelict CNL Carrier in an asteroid cluster. They used the wreck’s parts to repair their vessels and Craz rammed the detached engine bay into an attacking GDA Destroyer. They soon abandoned the wreck as three RWI Phoenix-class Assault Frigates came to rescue them.

#### The Search for Admiral Ellis

Following RWI’s loss of the Artifact after the Battle of Icarus, CNL came to them with a request: one of their important admirals, Sven Ellis, had gone missing in action following a battle. The RWI *Eclipse* was sent to search for him on a harsh-weathered, dusty planet, the last-known location of Admiral Ellis, and received supplies and search vehicles from a CNL outpost. The crew found a crashed CNL Carrier nearby, but it was not Ellis’s ship. A CNL Dropship soon arrived at the site, and a CNL officer asked for Craz to accompany him to a briefing of CNL personnel. The next day, the rest of the crew located Ellis’s crashed battleship. Ellis was extracting the ship’s data files when a swarm of GDA fighters arrived and attacked them. However, the *Eclipse* arrived via and AI system called “DJ”, and the team successfully extracted Ellis and returned him to CNL Command.

#### Invading P3-X2

Reuniting Admiral Ellis with his colleagues strengthened the relationship between CNL and RWI. Despite having many of their fleets pushed to the brink of destruction, CNL mustered a large force and agreed to assist RWI in their upcoming invasion of the GDA capital world, P3-X2. At least one Battleship, the *Sverige*, took part in the assault, along with multiple frigates, fighters, and other ships. Craz also reunited with the *Eclipse*’s crew and piloted a CNL Gunboat. However, the battle went sour when the GDA Super-Dreadnaught fled the system with the Artifact and the deranged leader of the GDA, the Controller. The joint fleet took heavy losses before being reinforced by RCSP’s ghost fleet.

The three Allied factions left the system shortly after and rendezvoused at a CNL-controlled moon, where a supply base and several freighters were being attacked by a GDA Destroyer. RWI sent a few V-203 fighters and the Phoenix-class Frigate *Bristol* to destroyed the GDA ship and recover the freighters’ cargoes, which were used to repair the damaged *Sverige* and RWI Battleships.

#### Battle of the Black Hole

CNL also committed the battleship *Kallax* and at least one frigate, the *Stönse*, to fight alongside RWI and RCSP in the final battle of the war. The three allied factions fought an intense fight against the last remaining GDA ships, including the Super-Dreadnaught, on which the Artifact was being charged and weaponized. Ultimately, the Allies were successful, and once the war was over, CNL focused on rebuilding its ships and infrastructure and retaking territory conquered by the Green Drones. Commander Craz rejoined CNL’s ranks and took command of a small fleet of ships sometime after the war’s end, once Jack Roberts’s crew also went their separate ways.

### Joint Expedition Task Force Mission

About one year after the Green Drone War’s end, RWI came across a mysterious signal surfacing from a corner of unexplored space. In response, CNL and RCSP joined RWI to become the Joint Expedition Task Force (JETF) and investigate the discovery, using RWI’s new expedition ship, the *Prometheus*, as a mobile headquarters. Colonel Jorgen Larson was put in charge of the CNL portion of the task force. Commander Craz led the *Prometheus*’s V-203 wing, Blue Squadron. They journeyed to the Chrome system and were suddenly attacked by an unknown ship belonging to a faction known as “the Remnant”. CNL’s Pioneer-class Lander and Dropships made it to the surface of Chrome II with moderate casualties, though they were unknowingly being monitored by the Remnant. Craz’s fighter crashed on the planet but he later met up with Jack Roberts, now an admiral and overall leader of the JETF.

Over time, Colonel Larson and another officer, Major Eriksson, the gathered CNL personnel at an abandoned outpost in a forest on the planet. They had at least two CNL Dropships and two CNL Fighters at their disposal. They also managed to acquire a large armored rover called the *Tempest* from a mutinous RWI Officer, Commander Michael Lynch, who defected from the JETF and took Commander Craz hostage. Larson and a few marines liberated Craz and took him to the outpost, later taking the majority of their forces to an ancient city where Admiral Roberts and Captain Tevin Myers of RCSP had joined up.

However, Larson became frustrated with Admiral Roberts due to the discovery of reprogrammed Green Drone units aboard the *Prometheus*, which caused it to crash on the planet. Later, after a mission to hijack a radar station to send a distress call to RWI Command, Larson spoke of how RWI was keeping too many secrets from CNL, including the development of the RWI X-12 Drone Project and the contents of Roberts’ message to RWI. He soon became enraged with Roberts’ attitude after Roberts refused to explain why several CNL marines were confined to their quarters after they helped uncover an Artifact very similar to the one fought over during the Green Drone War. Eventually, Larson and Eriksson led a mutiny against the JETF, destroying parts of the city, stealing RWI data and supplies, and trading fire with multiple RWI squads before fleeing the city. Craz did not participate in the mutiny and chose to side with his friend Roberts over CNL.