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| Rhygar_Valencia | Date: Sunday, 08 Jul 2012, 9:26 PM | Message # 1 |
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| The pair of KR-TB Doomtreader transports dropped out of hyperspace somewhat distant from the border of Hutt Space. There, just beyond the edge of their sensors, the pilots knew, were the elements placed by the accursed Alsakan naval forces to inhibit slave trading. While there were no slaves currently on board the pair of transports, or on the pair of StarHammer escorts who were with them or, for that matter, the solitary Vanguard-class heavy gunship Dragon's Flame. Their intent, if anything, was to assess the current threat to the slave trade mustered by the Alsakan forces.
Enough slavers had been captured, or survived by the skin of their teeth, to give an accounting of some of what the Alsakan forces could throw out: there was talk of Y-wings, MorningStar fighters and Belbullab bombers of some make. In themselves, the massed amounts of fighters would present a problem to most slavers, but the true issue came from the pair of massive, turbolaser-armed asteroid hangers and the armored defense platform that few slavers dared to fly past. Therefore, this was, what some could call, a dry run.Added (20 Jun 2012, 9:16 AM)
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A brief system scan was undertaken as the ships moved to full throttle, skirting the gauntlet of Alsakan craft and stations. Presumably, no Alsakan fleet elements were found within the space to prevent them from their movement. Had their been, their plans and movement would have been quite different. If they were able to continue unhindered, they'd take their leave of the system and proceed a short jump away to do what was to be done next. Added (08 Jul 2012, 9:26 PM)
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With the jump complete, a hypercomm message was sent out and off, informing others of the lack of Alsakan naval vessels before the slavers continued on their mission.
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 0:24 AM | Message # 2 |
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| How do they know where the stations are?))
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| Rhygar_Valencia | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 5:40 AM | Message # 3 |
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| (( Quote Enough slavers had been captured, or survived by the skin of their teeth, to give an accounting of some of what the Alsakan forces could throw out
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 6:10 AM | Message # 4 |
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| In deep space there's no way you could find them. You underestimate the size of three dimensional space, you could likely hide an operation this size in a solar system, let alone the several sectors we have available. Thus unfortunately I'm going to have to call farce unless we can satisfactorily resolve this.. The rebels hid bases for multiple years, I don't think a band of poorly equipped slavers could find the source of the Starfighter raids for some time to come.))
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| Rhygar_Valencia | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 6:18 AM | Message # 5 |
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| (( Yes, you can hide an operation this size anywhere. Considering the number of factors though, it's not likely to stay. You're raiding slavers out of Hutt space so let's look at this logically:
1) It's possible more than one slaver band stumbled across it.
2) The bases would still require resupply and unless they're not rotating forces, there has to be a steady supply of switching manpower, which requires vessels which in turn, can be tracked.
3) With the Alsakans raiding slavers leaving Hutt Space up and down the line, I'm fairly confident the Hutts would put their own investigative techniques to use.
4) Even if the above trio of reasons failed, then we can fall back on the fact that, as slavers, they made the discovery by accident, knowing full well that other slavers had been attacked on the routes they'd taken and therefore executed a different jump path that led them to where they stumbled across the stations. Either way, this post was up since well before June 20th. You've had quite a bit of time to debate this prior. ))
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 6:38 AM | Message # 6 |
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| 1. Supremely, colossally unlikely, less than the chances of winning the lottery several weeks running,
2. I don't see random slavers infiltrating the senior officer cadres (the only ones aware of the exact location) of a core world such as Alsakan - it's like Somali Pirates infiltrating the USN or Royal Navy.
3. No way you can effectively identify the source of fighter raids - if there was the rebels would have gone down quickly.
4. I work 7 days a week and never saw this. As soon as I did I called you out - we've spoken since then and you never made any effort to draw it to my attention - I don't have time to read every thread and there was no indication it was Alsakan related. You've repeatedly discovered secret bases by "flukes" and I think this is where it stops - il not consent to you winning the lottery - again - by your slavers happening to find a base in deep space. Space is big!))
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| Rhygar_Valencia | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 6:45 AM | Message # 7 |
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| (( Did you not catch the fact that it was alluded in my post that a good number of slavers had been captured by these raids? It's not like your base was stumbled across without incident, even though you've never, ever, ever, ever posted utilizing the bases. I figured, why not say they actually did something other than waste money?
In regards to 2, it wasn't stating infiltration. It's the fact that eventually, said vehicles would leave a trail. Is Alsakan using different routes every time? Are they taking steps to change freight routes or entry procedures? All they need to do is an established pattern of movement. I'm also confident the Hutts would have a little more at stake, considering this is specifically at their borders and the rebels moved around a lot more.
I also tend to work quite a bit and I manage to keep up on things. Work isn't really an excuse. If you have time to stage a revolution elsewhere, I'd say you have time to check other threads. If you'd like though, I can alter this post to make it more acceptable. ))
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| Verence_Terrawin | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 6:52 AM | Message # 8 |
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| No. I don't have time to read all threads and work.
In regards to 2 - yes - its an elite military organisation.
I'm not going to comment on their lack of role played activity - that's a problem for me not you.
Thus let's stop OOC I'm appealing this and would like to wait for a management ruling.
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| Rhygar_Valencia | Date: Monday, 09 Jul 2012, 7:01 AM | Message # 9 |
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| I can agree to wait for a management ruling. ))
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