February 3303 – A Change of Influence
Influence… an interesting thing. We struggled to gain it and maintain it; though with some dedicated effort from all of the Privateers we managed to enter a war with LHS 140 Values Party. The war was a tough fight but we managed to pull off the victory and as such we gained control of Diesel Orbital.
We celebrated our victory as it took us almost a full year of deciding where to call home, grab a foothold and proceed to work at increasing our influence in the system of LHS 215. For the first time in a long time we managed to see our influence spike to near the same levels as the controlling faction, Values Party of LHS 215.
However our victory was short lived. We began to notice our influence dropping, though we were still doing what we could to keep it up. It was a very tough fight to maintain the steady decline of our influence but we were still going down. So we took a closer look at travelers passing through the system, and noticed an increase of commanders. So our conclusion was that they were inadvertently negatively affecting our influence. As such we proceeded to ask them questions like; what’s your purpose in this system?
We soon found out that it was another group who claimed to be for the Federation, they called themselves the (Data Corrupted). As the Privateers are fellow members of Federation, we asked them to please visit Ross 775 to continue their efforts for the Federation at least until we gain control of LHS 215. Though, apparently this was deemed as being hostile according to the (Data Corrupted). The (Data Corrupted) wanted to make LHS 215 their home but the was a huge problem with this… They were late. About 10-12 months too late.
February 3303 – The Massacre of Spring Gateway (Part One)
Just so happens that I was outside of Spring Gateway when I noticed some fellow commanders that I did not recognize. So in typical Privateers fashion I began to question their intentions in the system but I was met with radio silence. As I was preparing to leave I here this over my communications system, Commander there seems to be a larger presence of commanders gathering outside the station. This comes from one of my fellow Privateers and indeed there was an increase of commanders sitting outside of Spring Gateway.
I pushed the issue a little further asking again what their intentions were in the system. By this time the Privateers were outnumbered as we only had about 4 ships at Spring Gateway and the other force was about 10 ships. I was messaged by one the ships… “We are tired of being harassed in this system. We are tired of questioned every time we dock at this station. We just want to be left alone.” I made an attempt to convey our intentions in the system and I was merely checking on what they were doing and possibly to recruit a new member for the Privateers. Little did I know this ship was already part of the (Data Corrupted).
February 3303 – The Massacre of Spring Gateway (Part Two)
I proceeded to scan the other ships sitting outside Spring Gateway and happened to come across their Wing Commander. I made several attempts to make contact with their Wing Commander, Commander "X". Just based on the name alone I had an uneasy feeling about this guy but I was willing to give him a chance even though he was ignoring all my attempts to reach him.
This is when I got a communication from our Lead Wing Commander "A". He was in contact with Commander "X" and made our case clear. We don’t mind their presence in LHS 215 as long as they followed our regulations. Commander "X" replied simply with, “We have hundreds of ships. We can go anywhere, do anything we want and there’s nothing you can do to stop us.”
With conflict unavoidable I proceeded to engage my thrusters and in the process rammed Commander "X's" ship multiple times. I also told our men to hold their fire. For a few short seconds no one fired but then it happened… As Commander "X's" ship was reduced to 50% hull his men opened fire on me and my fellow Privateers. This is what I was expecting and as such the station saw this as unwanted hostilities in the no fire zone and within a matter of about 20 seconds all their ships were destroyed but we did allow them escape in their escape pods. We also lost a few due to some overzealous members returning fire in the no fire zone. We promptly picked them up and returned them to the station.
This was the beginning of the war over Spring Gateway and LHS 215.
February 3303 – The Siege of Gamow Gateway
Over the next 24 hours we found ourselves in a heated conflict with the (Data Corrupted). As conflict continued it became apparently clear that they lacked the experience or the know how to fight us and they quickly found themselves stuck at Gamow Gateway.
But the task of fighting another, supposed to be, friendly Federation group took us away from our standard duties to the Federation. As such we asked for a cease fire multiple times and their leader Commander "X" finally agreed to a meeting saying that he was only joining the peace talks because we were begging for it due to them supposedly wrecking us in combat.
I’d like to note that this comes after 24 hours of combat fighting with their group with them losing ships every time we sneezed and us taking only minimal loses.
February 3303 – The Un-peaceful Peace Talks (Part One)
We, the leaders of the Federal Privateers, invited Commander "X" and anyone he wanted to bring to the peace talks. As we initiated the talks we started with; “Okay we want to be as friendly as possible and we are willing to extend the utmost courtesy to you guys; all we ask you guys show the same level of courtesy and respect in return.”
First words out of Commander "X's" mouth were, and I quote, "Shut the (Data Corrupted) up, I am not here to make friends. You wanted us here to talk about a cease fire, so let’s do that and move the (Data Corrupted) on."
Clearly this was not going to be a very nice peace talk…
In the peace talks Commander "X" basically accused us for starting the war. Saying, "What the (Data Corrupted) did you think was going to happen? What did you think was going happen when your guy in a Corvette rammed my ship to 50% hull?" "Did you think that my guys would just let their President die?" He also claimed that we shot first, to which I quickly reminded him that no… It was me… in an Anaconda… that rammed his ship… Then your guys opened fire and died by Spring Gateway. So in my eye’s he opened fire. I just merely hit him multiple times outside the station.
At one point during the talks, several other members of the Privateers leadership and myself were trying to explain things and this is Commander "X's" response… Screaming over the mic I might add, "SHUT THE (Data Corrupted) UP YOUR SUPERIORS ARE TALKING!!!" He very rarely gave up the "floor" for discussion except when one of his guys had something to say.
February 3303 – The Un-peaceful Peace Talks (Part Two)
So in a matter of a 20 minute conversation the leadership of the Federal Privateers were insulted and berated by leadership of the (Data Corrupted). The level of disrespect shown, in my opinion, was second to none. We were literally moments away from having them escorted out of the conference room just minutes after Commander "X" started talking. Though as we were there to talk peace, we let them spew their hate so we could eventually work past it and come to some form of peace.
Commander "X" also said that they don't care about any of the Federal coalitions, or any coalitions anywhere. He can be quoted as saying that he doesn't have time for all the circle jerks or whatever we do at our stations. He does not care about the Federal United Command, who leads our efforts for the Federation. He has complete disregard as to what the FUC was trying to accomplish which is to unite the Federal forces.
It would appear that the only people that matter are those in the (Data Corrupted).
They even went as far as to monitor our chat logs with which they could only derive the names of the people that were currently active at the time of day, and then proceeded to post bounties on those names… Our Communications AI even has a bounty placed on it along with several people that are not even a part of the Federal Privateers.
Clearly there was some error in their judgement as they can’t kill our AI and they managed to post bounties on leaders from other groups whom have no official ties to the Privateers other being in a coalition with us.
-From the Privateers News Network-
PS. If frontier reads this we have as well as several other player groups have video evidence of the (Data Corrupted) members Combat Logging, which you yourselves have defined as cheating. Their leader Commander "X" has even encouraged his members to Combat Log especially against members of my group because we were a bunch of D-bags. So they are even openly telling people to C-Log...
I also did my best to make sure I removed all individual names and left only the names of groups.
Also take note that the (Data Corrupted) is to be getting their own in-game minor faction soon... And they are Xbox One based for now.
----- Edit -----
I couldn't leave the above news articles with holes and the <name and shame> thing in there... So I changed everything to (Data Corrupted) in order to comply with forum regulations and make it more... interesting?
Influence… an interesting thing. We struggled to gain it and maintain it; though with some dedicated effort from all of the Privateers we managed to enter a war with LHS 140 Values Party. The war was a tough fight but we managed to pull off the victory and as such we gained control of Diesel Orbital.
We celebrated our victory as it took us almost a full year of deciding where to call home, grab a foothold and proceed to work at increasing our influence in the system of LHS 215. For the first time in a long time we managed to see our influence spike to near the same levels as the controlling faction, Values Party of LHS 215.
However our victory was short lived. We began to notice our influence dropping, though we were still doing what we could to keep it up. It was a very tough fight to maintain the steady decline of our influence but we were still going down. So we took a closer look at travelers passing through the system, and noticed an increase of commanders. So our conclusion was that they were inadvertently negatively affecting our influence. As such we proceeded to ask them questions like; what’s your purpose in this system?
We soon found out that it was another group who claimed to be for the Federation, they called themselves the (Data Corrupted). As the Privateers are fellow members of Federation, we asked them to please visit Ross 775 to continue their efforts for the Federation at least until we gain control of LHS 215. Though, apparently this was deemed as being hostile according to the (Data Corrupted). The (Data Corrupted) wanted to make LHS 215 their home but the was a huge problem with this… They were late. About 10-12 months too late.
February 3303 – The Massacre of Spring Gateway (Part One)
Just so happens that I was outside of Spring Gateway when I noticed some fellow commanders that I did not recognize. So in typical Privateers fashion I began to question their intentions in the system but I was met with radio silence. As I was preparing to leave I here this over my communications system, Commander there seems to be a larger presence of commanders gathering outside the station. This comes from one of my fellow Privateers and indeed there was an increase of commanders sitting outside of Spring Gateway.
I pushed the issue a little further asking again what their intentions were in the system. By this time the Privateers were outnumbered as we only had about 4 ships at Spring Gateway and the other force was about 10 ships. I was messaged by one the ships… “We are tired of being harassed in this system. We are tired of questioned every time we dock at this station. We just want to be left alone.” I made an attempt to convey our intentions in the system and I was merely checking on what they were doing and possibly to recruit a new member for the Privateers. Little did I know this ship was already part of the (Data Corrupted).
February 3303 – The Massacre of Spring Gateway (Part Two)
I proceeded to scan the other ships sitting outside Spring Gateway and happened to come across their Wing Commander. I made several attempts to make contact with their Wing Commander, Commander "X". Just based on the name alone I had an uneasy feeling about this guy but I was willing to give him a chance even though he was ignoring all my attempts to reach him.
This is when I got a communication from our Lead Wing Commander "A". He was in contact with Commander "X" and made our case clear. We don’t mind their presence in LHS 215 as long as they followed our regulations. Commander "X" replied simply with, “We have hundreds of ships. We can go anywhere, do anything we want and there’s nothing you can do to stop us.”
With conflict unavoidable I proceeded to engage my thrusters and in the process rammed Commander "X's" ship multiple times. I also told our men to hold their fire. For a few short seconds no one fired but then it happened… As Commander "X's" ship was reduced to 50% hull his men opened fire on me and my fellow Privateers. This is what I was expecting and as such the station saw this as unwanted hostilities in the no fire zone and within a matter of about 20 seconds all their ships were destroyed but we did allow them escape in their escape pods. We also lost a few due to some overzealous members returning fire in the no fire zone. We promptly picked them up and returned them to the station.
This was the beginning of the war over Spring Gateway and LHS 215.
February 3303 – The Siege of Gamow Gateway
Over the next 24 hours we found ourselves in a heated conflict with the (Data Corrupted). As conflict continued it became apparently clear that they lacked the experience or the know how to fight us and they quickly found themselves stuck at Gamow Gateway.
But the task of fighting another, supposed to be, friendly Federation group took us away from our standard duties to the Federation. As such we asked for a cease fire multiple times and their leader Commander "X" finally agreed to a meeting saying that he was only joining the peace talks because we were begging for it due to them supposedly wrecking us in combat.
I’d like to note that this comes after 24 hours of combat fighting with their group with them losing ships every time we sneezed and us taking only minimal loses.
February 3303 – The Un-peaceful Peace Talks (Part One)
We, the leaders of the Federal Privateers, invited Commander "X" and anyone he wanted to bring to the peace talks. As we initiated the talks we started with; “Okay we want to be as friendly as possible and we are willing to extend the utmost courtesy to you guys; all we ask you guys show the same level of courtesy and respect in return.”
First words out of Commander "X's" mouth were, and I quote, "Shut the (Data Corrupted) up, I am not here to make friends. You wanted us here to talk about a cease fire, so let’s do that and move the (Data Corrupted) on."
Clearly this was not going to be a very nice peace talk…
In the peace talks Commander "X" basically accused us for starting the war. Saying, "What the (Data Corrupted) did you think was going to happen? What did you think was going happen when your guy in a Corvette rammed my ship to 50% hull?" "Did you think that my guys would just let their President die?" He also claimed that we shot first, to which I quickly reminded him that no… It was me… in an Anaconda… that rammed his ship… Then your guys opened fire and died by Spring Gateway. So in my eye’s he opened fire. I just merely hit him multiple times outside the station.
At one point during the talks, several other members of the Privateers leadership and myself were trying to explain things and this is Commander "X's" response… Screaming over the mic I might add, "SHUT THE (Data Corrupted) UP YOUR SUPERIORS ARE TALKING!!!" He very rarely gave up the "floor" for discussion except when one of his guys had something to say.
February 3303 – The Un-peaceful Peace Talks (Part Two)
So in a matter of a 20 minute conversation the leadership of the Federal Privateers were insulted and berated by leadership of the (Data Corrupted). The level of disrespect shown, in my opinion, was second to none. We were literally moments away from having them escorted out of the conference room just minutes after Commander "X" started talking. Though as we were there to talk peace, we let them spew their hate so we could eventually work past it and come to some form of peace.
Commander "X" also said that they don't care about any of the Federal coalitions, or any coalitions anywhere. He can be quoted as saying that he doesn't have time for all the circle jerks or whatever we do at our stations. He does not care about the Federal United Command, who leads our efforts for the Federation. He has complete disregard as to what the FUC was trying to accomplish which is to unite the Federal forces.
It would appear that the only people that matter are those in the (Data Corrupted).
They even went as far as to monitor our chat logs with which they could only derive the names of the people that were currently active at the time of day, and then proceeded to post bounties on those names… Our Communications AI even has a bounty placed on it along with several people that are not even a part of the Federal Privateers.
Clearly there was some error in their judgement as they can’t kill our AI and they managed to post bounties on leaders from other groups whom have no official ties to the Privateers other being in a coalition with us.
-From the Privateers News Network-
PS. If frontier reads this we have as well as several other player groups have video evidence of the (Data Corrupted) members Combat Logging, which you yourselves have defined as cheating. Their leader Commander "X" has even encouraged his members to Combat Log especially against members of my group because we were a bunch of D-bags. So they are even openly telling people to C-Log...
I also did my best to make sure I removed all individual names and left only the names of groups.
Also take note that the (Data Corrupted) is to be getting their own in-game minor faction soon... And they are Xbox One based for now.
----- Edit -----
I couldn't leave the above news articles with holes and the <name and shame> thing in there... So I changed everything to (Data Corrupted) in order to comply with forum regulations and make it more... interesting?
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