Posts by MercZ

Thanks for the comments guys. And I´m sorry for the long absence. I lost motivation, but I´m back now. Ch. 7 Alvaro and the pilots walk through a passage, leading right to the landing pad. There are about 40 pilots, including Alvaro. They proceed to the Landing Pad, where the pilots immediately go and prepare their ships for take off and the mission. Most of the ships are titans, some new, and some showing battle scars. Alvaro notices that Van Clausen is not with them. “Dad”, said Alvaro, “Where did that Rheinlander go? “He had other business to take care off”, said Octavio, “It seems that the he was telling the truth, the Elders called wanting his status and location. They did have a meeting with him” “I see”, said Alvaro, “He was a good pilot, wasn’t he?” “Yes”, said Octavio, “He clearly shows that he had experienced combat before” Commander Chavez comes up to them from the command building “What are you two standing around for!?” he said, “The rest of the squadron has already completed pre-flight checks! Get to your ships now!” “Yes sir!” they both said Alvaro and Octavio proceed to their ships and prepare for take off. The Commander comes on through the com-link “Alright!” said Chavez, “I’m giving you all information about the new equipment and advancements on these special titans. You may already notice the new weapons. These are fresh from Tripoli and the research stations on Crete. They are an assortment of assault cannons, mass drivers, and many different advanced weapons. These can tear apart a sabre in no time! You have an advanced power plant, and your hull is made of a special material, both durable and strong. These will allow these titans to move faster; No more cow or tub jokes from the Zoners or other pirates. They are also outfitted with heavy shields, which can block even the worst radiation. I’m sending y’all the coordinates of the factory in Omicron Theta. We are going through Omega-41, but the shields should block it. Your navigation computers will soon receive objectives and what squadron you’ll be with. Alpha will commence the attack on the station. Beta will engage the fighters, and Zeta will take out any other defenses. If we’re lucky, the battleships won’t be active. Prepare for take-off!” The Titans lift off and proceed through the docking ring and proceed to the area outside the base. Alvaro looks back at Cadiz, and can see repair ships taking apart surrounding asteroids and taking rocks to repair cracks in Cadiz’s hull. An orange glow suddenly lights up his cockpit, he looks in front of him, and sees a bright orange cloud in the distance. The intercom comes on. “What you see there”, said `Chavez “Is the result of the nuclear blast along with the leaking reactors of both Corsair and Hessian ships. It’s a permanent reminder of what happened here. We shall call it the Hades Cloud. The radiation is strong in that cloud, we must not go through there. Follow me; we’re taking the jump hole to Omega-41. Once there, we’ll take the jump hole to Omicron Theta” The squadron goes through the hole and reaches Omega-41. The sight amazes Alvaro. A system littered with debris and asteroids, with a neutron star in the middle. “Amazed by that, huh?” said Octavio, “This system has no important resources or can support large scale habitations. Only a Zoner base and Leon here; It only holds a strategic Value” “Yea”, said Alvaro, “Are there many fights around here?” “Not really”, said Octavio, “There are some, but the radiation is too heavy for a long fight” “CUT THE CHATTER!” yelled a Corsair, “We’re nearing the jump hole to Omicron Theta!” The Corsair strike group arrives at the other end, and the Edge Cloud can be clearly seen in the distance. “Alright!” said Chavez, “The base is said to be on the dark side of a planet in the Edge Cloud east of Freeport 9” The Corsair group proceeds through the jump hole and arrive in Omicron Theta, and arrives. They proceed past Freeport 9, eventually reaching the edge cloud. “Ok”, said Chavez, “Remember your commands and your squad groups. Things will get hot in a moment” Alvaro suddenly remembers that he forgot to check what squadron he was assigned to. He brings up his computer, and looks through the previous messages. He sees what he needs From Corsair Command: You have been assigned to Beta Squadron. Take on all fighters in the combat zone. Your squadron commander is Beta-1. Alvaro moves his Titan over to the Beta Squadron. “So there you are!” said Beta-1, “I was wondering when you’d get here!” “Sorry about that”, said Alvaro, “I forgot to check my messa…” Before he could finish, Chavez interrupts the conversation “All pilots, cut any transmissions and maintain radio silence!” he yelled. Alvaro and the rest of the Titans slowly move through the cloud. Alvaro sees nothing but green all around him, except for the dim outline of his fellow corsairs. Alvaro activates his HUD, and sees that he is nearing in on the target. His cockpit is lighted only by his HUD and the occasional light flashes in the cloud. A message pops up on his HUD to prepare for combat. He looks ahead, still only seeing the green cloud. The cloud flashes again, and the outline of a massive station is seen ahead. They soon enter a gap in the cloud, and the station can be seen clearly. It’s a massive station, with 5 docks, each containing a prototype Rheinland Battleships. Alvaro looks at the massive size of the ship, and he begins to feel frightful. Suddenly, a blast hits his left wing, and he looks over and sees five sabres. “WHERE THE HELL DID THEY COME FROM!” said a corsair “They just appeared out of no where!” said another. The Titans begin to take evasive action and quickly dispatch the sabres. Alvaro looks off in the distance and sees bright flashes. 50 sabres uncloak, with an assortment of cruisers and gunboats. “Beta and Zeta squadrons!” said Chavez, “Do your objectives now! Alpha needs to do their bombing run without too much interference! Chavez looks out into the distance, and sees more Hessians uncloaking “DAMN!” he said, “Everyone, get ready!” Alvaro hits his thrusters and goes straight to the first sabre he sees. He gets in his crosshairs and quickly dispatches it. ”DAMN!” thought Alvaro, “He wasn’t lying when he said these weapons pack a punch!” His HUD shows a fighter on his tail. He speeds up and quickly flies himself over to behind the sabre. He quickly dispatches it. “And the new design is great! Flies like my old Legionnaire…” he thought Alvaro sees one of his squadron members being attacked by three sabres. He quickly makes his way over to one of the sabres and unloads a massive amount of fire on the ship. The Sabre’s wings are quickly clipped, and in a moment, it blows apart into a brilliant green explosion. Alvaro flies through the explosion to engage the other fighter, but as he does, something smashes against his cockpit. He can see what looks like a helmet; it slowly slips off, leaving a red trail of blood. “How disgusting…” he thought. Alvaro quickly dispatches the other sabre, and the corsair quickly makes his way around to dispatch the other one. “Thanks for the assist!” said the Corsair “No problem! Quickly! Join up with me, and aim for the bridge of that cruiser”, said Alvaro. The two fly towards the nearest Cruiser, dodging laser fire and ships in there way. The cruiser then begins to fire at them. “Crap...” said Alvaro, “Keep going! Let’s hope these shields hold. These new weapons should be able to destroy the cruiser. The two unload their weaponry on to the cruiser, and soon it starts to get on fire. An explosion rocks the bridge of the cruiser, and a fire begins to engulf the ship. “****!” said the Corsair, “All corsairs, move away from the marked ship! It’s gonna blow!” Alvaro and the other corsair quickly hit their thrusters and blast away from the crippled ship. Soon it explodes and quickly takes out the ships around them. Alvaro’s titan spins out of control. “Damn!” said Alvaro, “Those Cruisers are like a flying bomb!” “Yea”, said Chavez, They’re loaded to the max with weaponry and explosive gasses…” Alvaro flies around and engages two sabres, quickly destroying them in an instant. He takes out a gunboat close to a cruiser, destroying the gunboat and the cruiser’s defensive weapons” “Beta-1!” said Alvaro, “We should destroy the cruisers, if we play are cards right, we can quickly get away, and take out a ton of ships!” Laser fire is heard over the intercom “Yes....Idea….good….assigning….four…our ships… you…” said Beta-1 Four corsairs form up with Alvaro, and wait for their orders. Alvaro looks out at the battle zone, and sees a cruiser in the midst of the Hessian fighters. “All of my ships!” said Alvaro, “Target the bridge on the marked cruiser!” Alvaro and his partners blast towards the cruiser, dodging laser fire and ships. Soon the cruiser begins to unload a barrage of lasers and missiles on the ships. “Keep on the target!” said Alvaro, “Unload on the bridge until it explodes!” The titans close in on the cruiser, their shields blocking a barrage of fire. They all fire, and with in seconds, the bridge explodes. “ALL FIGHTERS!” said Alvaro, “CLEAR THE LOCATION” Alvaro and the other titans hit their thrusters and move away. The cruiser explodes, dispatching 5 gunboats and 6 sabres, and crippling a nearby cruiser. “That was some chain reaction!” said Octavio, “We’re doing well so far! My squadron has been able to attack the station, and Zeta will probably come soon, the defenses are nearly down!” “Good”, said Alvaro, “These Hessians are like flies...” Something rocks his ship, and Alvaro sees a sabre flies head onto Alvaro, unloading a barrage of lasers. He quickly dispatches the sabre. “They’re annoying…” said Alvaro. Alvaro and his fellow partners dispatch the cruisers, destroying many Hessians along with it. “We’re doing good guys!” said Alvaro, “This battle is ours…” Before he finishes, one of the ships near him explode, and the others quickly fall too. Alvaro cuts his engines, and 2 sabres zoom past him. He does a quick scan on them. “Crap…” he said, “Loaded with missiles and torpedoes…” The sabres turn back around and assault Alvaro. Alvaro zooms past them, and goes behind one of them, unloading a barrage of lasers. The shield on the sabre is tough, but Alvaro manages to break through it. The other ship launches a barrage of missiles at him. Alvaro blasts away, and launches a counter-measure. One of the missiles hit it, but another hits Alvaro’s ship. It does no damage. Alvaro tries to launch more countermeasures, but the computer doesn’t respond. “****!” he thought, “Took out the countermeasure system!” Alvaro looks around, while keeping an eye on his thruster gage “88%…” he said. He looks around, and sees the corsairs around the battle station, pounding away at it. “I’ve got an idea…” thought Alvaro Alvaro hits his thrusters and makes his way towards the station. Lasers blaze past him, and dogfights are all around him. He dodges the fire from other ships, some of which take out the missiles. He gets closer to the station, and makes his way to the area beneath it, where the battleships are docked. He heads towards a battleship with an open hangar and flies through it, making a tricky path through the numerous obstacles in the hangar bay. The missiles explode behind him, and Alvaro quickly flies through the bay. Alvaro goes into cruise and sets an alarm frequency. He blasts away, and behind him, the battleship makes a large explosion, causing a chain reaction. Explosions rock the station, and cause numerous hull breaches, through which Hessian pilots and ships inside the station get sucked out. Zeta squadron unloads a payload of heavy torpedoes, and move away. The torpedoes hit, and the station gets obliterated, engulfed by a massive explosion. Cheering comes over the frequency. “The station is destroyed!” said Chavez, “All fighters, clean up what’s left!” The Corsair titans quickly destroy the remaining Hessians, which seem to have lost morale. The Cruisers are quickly taken out, since their defense systems were destroyed. Soon, the Hessian fleet is gone. ”Good job!” said Chavez, “Mission Accomplished. Form up on me and lets return to Crete!” The Titans from up on Chavez and move towards the jump hole towards Omicron Gamma. Most of the Corsairs are bragging about their kills and maneuvers. Alvaro switches over to a private channel with his dad. “That was too easy…” said Alvaro, “Something doesn’t feel right…” “I know”, said Octavio, “I would’ve expected only 20 or less of us to come back, but only 5 pilots perished” The Corsair group reaches the jump hole and move through it. They enter the edge nebula in Omicron Gamma, and move towards Crete. But as it gets in view, the ships stop. “Oh my god…” said a Corsair A massive battle is seen near Crete. The battleships can clearly be seen from far away, and occasional explosions appear around Crete. There is a battle happening around Crete. “All Corsairs!” said Chavez, “Prepare to attack!” End Ch. 7 Edited by - MercZ on 7/20/2005 7:32:36 PM

Ch. 6 Alvaro turns around and goes into back into the cloud, leaving the Corsair fleet behind. Soon the fiery cloud engulfs him. His navigation computer comes on and gives a warning "WARNING SEVERE RADIATION DAMAGE DETECTED. DO NOT TRAVEL ANY FURTHER" Alvaro reaches over and turns it off "Damn that thing is annoying...” said Alvaro All Alvaro can see is the burning could around him. He can see his hull slowly begin to glow red. He passes through many destroyed ships, most of them Corsairs. He travels through the cloud for sometime, but it feels like an enternity. The cockpit´s temperature begins to rise in temperature. His vision begins to blur, and the heat gets to his head, then he suddenly hits something. He squints a bit, and his vision clears up. He sees a massive cross in front of him, and recognizes it instantly- The Rheinland Insignia. He maneuvers his ship over to the cockpit, and can see Van Clausen in his cockpit. "There he is...” said Alvaro. He reaches over to a button, and his cockpit opens up. He grabs his laser rifle and floats over to the destroyed Valkrie. The heat begins to get to the suit, and he begins to sweat. He pulls up his Rifle and shoots a shot into the cockpit. The cockpit shatters and Alvaro reaches into the cockpit. Van Clausen is still breathing, but he is slowly losing control. Alvaro rips Van Clausen out of the cockpit and goes back towards his ship. He puts Van Clausen in his Cargo Bay, and he jumps back into the cockpit. He closes it, and sees something bad- His hull is falling apart. He can see the skeleton of this ship in some areas, and some of the hull is completely gone in other places. "This isn´t good...” said Alvaro. He begins to punch in commands. He reroutes the power in the shields and weaponry to the engines. "This is going to be suicidal", said Alvaro, "The radiation is going to go right through, but if I kept the shields and weaponry on... I won´t make it out in time. He hits the cruise engines and his ship goes soaring through the cloud. The ship is going much faster then usual. Pieces of debris fly past his Centurion as he soars through the cloud. He begins to feel funny, as if his whole body is boiling. He vomits all over the control panel, and he sees that he had also vomited some blood with it too. His hands burn and he sees that his whole cockpit is heating up. He can´t handle the heat and he lets go of the controls. He throws up even more blood and he starts to burn. He tries to regain control, but he realizes it´s useless. This is something he can´t fight. He thinks it´s all over, but suddenly the cloud clears, and he sees Cadiz in the distance. "Yes...” said Alvaro He couldn´t finish that sentence. He pukes up even more blood and falls unconscious. Alvaro has the strange dreams again, but he sees different visions. An advanced alien civilization, creation of what they called "Guardians", the betrayal of the guardians, and the disappearance of these aliens and the trapping of the guardians. He is the only one left. There are no more aliens. He tries to look around for anyone, but they´re all gone, almost as if they were never there. Alvaro looks up at the Mountain Range near the strange city, and recognizes it. It resembles a Mountain Range on Crete- The Atlas Range. Suddenly everything speeds up- He sees the structures slowly fall apart. Strange ships falling from the sky. Humans roaming the planet. Cities established. Only the mountain range hasn´t changed. Alvaro´s eyes suddenly open wide "This can´t be... That planet was Crete...." His vision blacks out, and he begins to hear voices "Will he be alright....?” "He´ll live....side effects are unknown though...” "What?" "We won´t know until he wakes.....He could be fertile....Organs may be damaged....maybe nothing at all..." "The Rheinlander..." "He’s awakening...No long term effects... He survived...." He hears some noise, and some people yelling "Put him back on the bed!!" "I must see the boy!" "Stay back! You´re hurt too...” "No matter! This kid saved me!" "Yes... My son did... But he´s still unconscious... He saved... But we don´t know if he has any long-term effects..." "He certainly is an amazing boy... Reminds me of a Bretonian I met on my journeys... Alvaro slowly opens his eyes, and sees the people above him- Commander Chavez, Octavio, Van Clausen, and a doctor "He´s awake!” said a doctor Octavio runs over to the bed and looks at his son "You really are a true corsair...” said Octavio "Kid, you saved my life! I am forever in your debt...” said Van Clausen "What....?” said Alvaro, "How did I survive...?" "Your ship was in Cruise when we found it", said Octavio, "You blasted right past us. We thought you two were dead, and we were surprised when we saw your ship. We tried to hail you, but you didn´t reply. We fired cruise disrupters and went to your ship. Your ship was very hot, and there was blood all over the cockpit. We thought you died, but it seemed that you threw all that up as a result of the heat and radiation. We found Van Clausen in your cargo bay. We got you out as quick as we could. You two were too exposed to the radiation..." "Am I ok?” said Alvaro "You and Van Clausen got some burns", said a doctor, "But in the long run, you´re alive..." "What about my ship?” said Alvaro Commander Chavez steps up "Your ship was too heavily damaged and had radiation all over it. We had to dispose of it. Your actions in the war have promoted you to Lieutenant. You have a titan now. Your actions in both destroying a fleet of battleships and saving Van Clausen was very honorable", said the Commander, "Anyways, you guys are ok now, y´all need to report to briefing chambers" The commander steps out of the room, along with his body guards. The sound of his hover car is heard outside, and it blasts away to the center. "Let´s go", said Alvaro, "We need to see what this briefing is about" The three go to the command building in Cadiz. They see how much damage to war caused. Rubble has fallen from the ceiling and all directions, and many buildings have been knocked over. The whole base of Cadiz has been severely damaged. They soon reach the main street, and see other corsairs making their way to the command building. They get inside and are escorted by guards to the main platform in the middle. They take a seat, along with other members of their squadrons. "Dad...” said Alvaro, "Why are we up here?" "I don´t know...” said Octavio, "We were specifically requested..." The crowds of Corsairs are all chatting about the war, Hessians, and the fate of Cadiz. They all fall silent when the Commander steps up to the podium. "Fellow Corsairs! Congratulations to each of you! We fought a long war, but we have come out victorious. Please remember the fallen; their deaths shall not be in vain. We were attacked by these bastards with no warning, and we suffered many losses. I bet you not even a house military could´ve survived what we went through! Our death toll is rising to over 500 pilots" Some gasps and chatter is heard from the audience "To a house military, that´s nothing. But to us, every corsair is valuable, for we are few in numbers. This was a massive loss, but we shall not allow them to pass in Vain! These squadrons seated next to me are comprised of centurion and titan pilots, who turned the tide of battle. One boy, Lieutenant Octavio´s son, Alvaro, single handedly took out a fleet of battleships. After this feat, these squadrons successfully took down many cruisers and gunboats. Each of you has done their part, even if you aren´t up here. You may have killed some Hessians, saved a corsair pilot, operated on the wounded, manned the turrets, or repaired the damage to the ship, it doesn’t matter, and you all deserve recognition. We´ve won this war and Omega-5, but at a high cost. Many pilots are dead, and this system has got radiation, but not as bad as Omega-41. Nonetheless, this area will be hard to maintain, but we´ve had no problem with Leon. All of you take a look at your wrist-computers" The corsairs take a look at their wrist computers "There are orders on there from the supreme commander of the Corsairs, Brigadier General Ramirez. Some of you are being moved to different positions, now that it´ll be difficult for the Hessians to be relocated. Some of you are going to Crete, Leon, raids on Bretonia, or the Sigma´s. Dismissed!" Alvaro looks at his wristband, and it simply says "Report to Commander". His father has the same order, and it says that any one on the stage is to go to him they get up and go with the others to the commander´s room for their orders. "I see that you all are here!” said the commander, "You guys are probably wondering what your orders are" The corsairs all nod "It´s a top-secret mission, which is why I didn´t mention it in the briefing", said the commander. He goes over to a table, and a star chart hologram comes up, along with the schematics of the battleships. "The Hessians got these battleships from a raid on a classified research station in a secret sector. They also got the materials to make more. We were able to track down their production facility here *Points to Omicron Theta* It´s in Omicron Theta, located in a particle cloud near the planet Pygar. We´re sending you guys, since it was clear you guys are skilled pilots. We must destroy this station, these battleships are extremely dangerous. Don´t fail us! I´ll be accompanying you guys for this mission. Report to the secondary launch bays!" End Ch. 6

@Grit: Thanks for pointing those things out, every bit helps. And thanks to everyone for good feedback. And here’s Ch.5, which is very long. Ch. 5 The battle rages in Omega-5. The Hessians and the Rheinland ships bombard Cadiz. Explosions

Yea, changing them to the order sounds better. Possibly relocate them closer to the Unknown jumpholes, then you could say they´re there to monitor nomad activity.

They put it down. The release was supposidly very buggy, and there was a computer crash that destroyed much of it´s files. The team put it down since it was too unstable. Some people have started again though, rebuilding 3.5. Look in the Rebalance forum for more details.

Caradime intercept station? Spy Stations? To make peace? Fight? I too, are confused as to why there would be an LSF base in Outcast base, especially in the Hornet´s Nest...

More will be revealed tommorow. Edited by - MercZ on 6/23/2005 7:42:16 PM

Thanks for the nice feedback guys! Ch. 4 Alvaro is back to the strange vision he was in. He touches the sphere, but there is no effect. He floats back down to the ground and sees the aliens, who are speaking a language he can´t understand. Alvaro stands in their way to get their attention, but they pass through him like a ghost. He can´t understand their language; it´s just a series of clicking and unrecognizable sounds. He continues to follow them trying to get their attention, and slowly the language becomes understandable. The aliens are chatting about useless everyday events. Suddenly a laser beam comes down from sky and hits the structure. Rubble falls around the building. "We´re under attack!!!!", yelled an alien "Who is it!” questioned the other "I don´t believe it!” said the alien near a star chart, "It´s the guardians!" "We´re receiving a transmission from the home planet...” said the alien, "They´ve said that the guardians have turned on us. They´re telling us to initiate the plan now!" Alvaro goes outside and sees a strange crystal like object in the sky. It´s bombarding the surface of the planet, and the aliens are running to their houses and locking the doors. Alvaro goes back into the building, and sees that the aliens have opened up the sphere, and a hologram control panel is shown. The aliens push the buttons on the hologram, and the building begins to deploy into a massive cannon. It fires into the sky and massive laser beam comes out from it and hits the mysterious ship; it explodes on impact and the ship goes on a crash course, and it burns up in the atmosphere. Alvaro hears chatter from the inside of the structure. "I never thought the guardians would turn on us...” said one alien "It doesn´t matter...” said another, "It´s happened all over the home sectors, but there has been no casualties, just damage to our structures" "We have to go with the operation, our top warriors our going to trap the guardians before they deploy their full force", said the other alien. The aliens begin to push another series of buttons, and a large barrier beam deploys. It goes in both directions and the aliens disappear. Alvaro is left all alone by himself. He goes out of the building, and it seems that all the aliens are gone. Slowly, the world around him begins to fall apart, and he sees shadows in the distance, and lights above him. "Alvaro....wake up.....Come on!!!....Don´t die now!!" "This is strange....His pulse has suddenly come back...he returned from the dead..." Alvaro slowly awakens from his vision, and sees the room around him. He can see his dad standing above him, a doctor, and Alonso. "He´s awake!!!” said Alonso Octavio goes and hugs him and starts to cry "I thought that you were gone... You´re the only one I got left...” said Octavio "Kid", said Alonso, "You are one stubborn kid. First you get shanghaied by those mysterious ships, captured by Bounty Hunters, escaping a Bounty Hunter base and receiving serious injuries, surviving in you space suit, and now this!" "I got to say", said the doctor, "You just don´t want to die, you have a tight grip on that ledge boy...” "What happened to me...” said Alvaro, "I had a strange dream..." "That´s normal", said the doctor, "People typically get strange dreams when they´re on the verge of death...” Alvaro sees that he still has the eye patch, and his arm is in a much more reinforced cast. "You´re lucky we didn´t have to amputate that arm", said the doctor, "Corsairs don´t have prosthetics" "Is he free to go?” said Octavio, "He´s been here for 2 days now...” "Yes", said the doctor, "Just keep him in your quarters, he won´t be able to pilot anything in that condition" "Will do, sir!” said Octavio Octavio and Alonso help Alvaro into a wheelchair and roll him out of the hospital. The skyscrapers of Cadiz rise above them outside, and hover cars and freighters are going back-and-forth outside, high up in the asteroid. The three go into the hover car and go into the streets. The buildings blast past them as they speed down the street. "I was going to visit you, son", said Octavio, "I was really proud when you passed the initiation, even with that attack. You´ve brought honor to our family; your mom and brother would´ve been very proud if you...” "Yeah, kid", said Alonso, "At the rate you´re going, you’ll rise the ranks faster than your dad!" The hover car turns and goes to the launching complex, and Alvaro gets puzzled "Yes, thanks", said Alvaro, "Where are we going?" "We have to drop of Alonso", said Octavio "Where are you going?” said Alvaro "Ever since you destroyed that base, Bounty Hunters have increased their attacks on us", said Alonso, "The elders are recalling some Corsairs back to Crete to go on Bounty Hunter raids. Those Bounty Hunters are becoming a real thorn on our side" "Good Bye old friend", said Octavio, "Thanks for looking after Alvaro" "No problem", said Alonso, "And keep up the good work, you might become a big shot like your dad" They exchange farewells and Alonso boards his Titan. His ship takes off and exits through the docking port. The two got back onto the Hover car and continue on. "Dad", said Alvaro, "Where are we going now?" "I have a house here", said Octavio, "I’m on leave for one week so we can stay together, and it´s a good thing, your injuries need tending. By the way, how did you receive them?" Alvaro looks at the buildings for a while, and then starts his story. "I was captured by the bounty hunters. Alonso and I got quite a reputation from the raids we did on the BMM. The Bounty Hunters ripped me out of the cockpit and took me to a bounty hunter base. It was filled with Hessians and Outcasts, but not a single Corsair, excluding myself" "Sounds like quite a hellhole", said Octavio, "I´m amazed you got out" "Yea, but it would´ve been impossible as a one man job. All the Hessians and outcasts and myself came together. We would´ve never done that in space, but we all have a common enemy- the Bounty Hunters. I would never work with a damned Hessian, after what they´ve done to our family, but I needed them to be meat shields for my escape. An outcast and I...." Octavio interrupts "You were able to convince an outcast to work with you!?!?!” said Octavio, "You really have guts, they typically put themselves above others!" "Anyways, his name was Miguel if I recalled correctly. We were able to escape and we fought our way through the base with the others. We reached a barricade, with Bounty Hunters and gun emplacements. I used the vents to be able to drop the Plasma Grenade above them. I succeeded and their guts splattered all over the wall. Some of the debris hit my eye though, and it got blinded. Only my right eye sees now. When I escaped, those damned outcasts kicked me out of the ship and left me there. I had to hijack a Bounty Hunter escape freighter. I killed some of them with a grenade and locked myself in the cockpit. I got a suit as quick as I could, and got out. Just in time to... That place blew up as soon as I got out. Some metal pierced the cockpit and hit my arm. Passed right through and glued me to the cockpit. The rest you probably know", said Alvaro "You are really a Gulliento", said Octavio, "You can survive in the worst conditions. I´m glad you´re alive. I lost Maria and Carlos to those damned Hessians, You´re all I got left now", said Octavio The hover car lowers down to the alley and parks in one of the houses. Octavio helps Alvaro out and puts him in the bed and puts on the holonet. The Corsair news comes on "Recently... the war in the houses has ended.... Outcasts kill an innocent Corsair family..." "Dad", said Alvaro, "Who are the Outcasts? They speak our tongue and have our culture...” "I don´t know too well myself. I only know what the Elders have told me. They say that along time ago, we had a nice country and green land to ourselves; on the Planet they call Earth. There was a war, and our side lost. Alongside the other nations of the group they called the Alliance; we built ships to carry our peoples to safety. There was the Liberty, Rheinland, Bretonia, Kusari, and our ship- the Hispania. When we arrived here, our engines were destroyed. The houses say that it was the work of a Coalition (The enemy of the Alliance) Saboteur. We believe that they did it, more than likely a Rheinlander, to get more land. Our peoples split in two, since we disagreed whether or not to settle on a nearby planet or somewhere else. Some of us took the lifeboats and found Crete weeks later. You probably know what happened from there. The other group was able to use the secondary engines on the Hispania, and found their way to that planet. The ship didn´t get there; Only close enough to the planet to get a ship to go there. We were right, the planet was damned. They got addicted to the drug caradime, and they can´t leave their planet without getting killed, so they carry caradime and wear breathers to survive out side of their planet. That evil drug has changed them, and they believe they are no longer humans, they are something better. When we first encountered them, we sent an elder to meet their leaders. They were glad to see we survived, but had no interest in making an alliance. They said we were inferior, and told the Elder to leave. The elder says that he was attacked by them on the way back, and some of our pilots were killed. From that day on, we became enemies" Alvaro sees the window from the bed and sees a fleet of titans going out of the city. "Dad", said Alvaro, "What´s going on?" Octavio steps up to the window and sees the titan squad. "The Commander of this base had got orders from the Council of the Elders; they presented a new plan to end this menace, and said to go on the defensive for now, to weaken those bastards. Those Hessians´ advantage are in numbers, we have advantage in skills", said Octavio, "But recently, they haven´t been attacking much.." "When I get better", said Alvaro, "Will I fight with you?" "Probably", said Octavio, "I´m giving you my old Centurion for your new ship. It´s rigged with a great engine, power plant, and can mount some very powerful weapons. It can mount a powerful shield. You could probably take a Sabre out in that ship" Alvaro smiles a bit, and looks at the picture of his family "Dad", said Alvaro, "What happened to Mom and Carlos?" "I can´t tell you that yet", said Octavio, "All I can tell you is that those damn Hessians are responsible for both of their deaths. But enough of that, let´s watch some movies from Liberty!" The two spend a week to their selves. They go to bars, watch the holonet, practice their skills in a simulator. Alvaro is able to take off his cast, but It´s still healing. He has a massive scar where the wound was, and it still gives pain when too much stress is put into it. One day, the two drive back from a wrestling match. "Damn, that Rodriguez guy was one hell of a wrestler, wasn´t he?", said Alvaro "Yea, Caesar was good too, but Rodriguez was too good for him", said Octavio "Dad", said Alvaro, "Who was that man you were talking to? He didn’t´ look like a Corsair" "He was a Freelancer from Bretonia", said Octavio, "He says that the war in the Colonies destroyed the economy, and Rheinland has been hit the hardest. He says that there were three people, a freelancer and two members of the LSF who got full pardons for some reason. They were the biggest enemies of Liberty, but they got excused, and got the Lone Star. Not too many people know what they did, but they disappeared afterwards" "They must have done something big", said Alvaro, "Getting excused and getting a medal means they´ve probably fought something big" "You know, you look like the corsairs of old, in Earth. Pirates then had the stereotype that they had eye patches..." Before Octavio could finish, a massive explosion rocks the city, and some debris falls from the ceiling. "WHAT THE HELL!", yelled Octavio Alvaro turns on the Holonet in the car to the Alert frequency "Warning! Warning! The base is under attack from a massive hessian fleet! All pilots, active and un-active, report to the Landing pad.. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" An explosion is heard through the holonet, and it turns off. "DAMN!", said Alvaro, "What could have caused that explosion!" Their hover car rushes to the landing pad, dodging falling rocks from the ceiling. People are screaming around them and the can clearly see the corsair pilots going towards the landing pad. Fleets of titans and centurions launch and exit in swarms. They arrive at the landing pad, and lots of ships are launching as they jump out of their hover car. They rush to the observation deck. "OH MY GOD", said Octavio A massive battle is taking place. Lasers fly everywhere, and Sabres and Stiletto´s fly through the space. Titans and Centurions rush out of Cadiz and engage them. Explosions are seen through the space, and an occasional explosion rocks Cadiz. "What a battle...”, said Alvaro "That´s not the main attraction kid", said a Corsair behind them. The corsair points off to the right and what he sees makes his eye widen. A massive fleet of Rheinland Battleships, Cruisers, and Gunboats are pounding Cadiz "This is going to be one hell of a battle...”, said Octavio End Ch. 4 Edited by - MercZ on 6/23/2005 1:11:01 PM Edited by - MercZ on 6/24/2005 10:47:23 AM

Is it a regular mod or is it in FLmod format?

If you´re still confused, It´s in close proximity to the neutron star, SW of it.

Russia was also part of the Coalition.

X2 is one of the space sims which allows this if I recall, but Combat really lacks in this game at times. But as the previous posters have said, the engine atm doesn´t allow it.

Some of my favs are the Eagle, Titan (both for designs), the Tie Shadow (From Tie Universe, looks really cool), and the Sobek (From the Aten Rebalance 3.4 add-on, It´s an anubis enlarged, colored red, and really packs a punch and it´s really manuaverable.)

I do a long trade route. I buy artifacts in Crete (They´re cheap here), and travel to Manhattan. I sell the artifacts there (For a large profit), go over to detriot and buy arms (Which sell cheap there) and I got to Leon. I sell them there and go over to crete to buy Artifacts (Since it´s on my return route to Manhattan) and go to Manhattan, and it starts over. It´s long, and it´s much easier in SP. In mp someone might jump you for the cargo.

Most you can get if you use it with TNG is a map with objects. It won´t show ships, information, or anything. Just a flat basic map. It´ll show the new systems though.

Yes, Leon is in Omega-41.

Canada was probably with the Liberty. China is out of the question, since it was a big member of the coalition. Australia could´ve been a possibility, but they probably went with the Liberty or Britonia. France and Italy seem like reasonable choices, but I really can´t think of a 3rd.

Ah, thank you. Sometimes I type too much and I get somethings wrong. Thank you all for reading. @steelfang, I fixed that error as best as I could. Thanks for pointing that out. Ch. 3 Alvaro wakes up on Crete, but not the Crete he knows. This Crete is much more green and peaceful and massive cities rise up to the sky. Strange aliens are walking aroud, and one building catches his eye. The aliens simply pass him by and he walks to the building. As he walks into the building, he floats off and sees a bright light. He feels relaxed and free. He sees a rotating and floating sphere in the middle of the building. He starts going towards the sphere, but when he touches it, the whole scenery suddenly turns black and he sees two distorted shapes, slowly going towards him. He remembers what happened, and his vision clears. Two space suits are floating towards him. "Look, a bounty hunter is still alive!", said one "We´ll take him back to Crete, maybe we can teach that bastard a thing or two!", said the other Alvaro can see them coming and breaking through his cockpit and floating into the bridge of the freighter. "Damn", said one, "He´s severly injured" Alvaro tries to move. He begins to move, but suddenly he stops and feels a seering pain. He looks over and sees his arm pierced by a piece of steel, which has also pierced the chair. He´s stuck to it. "HA!", laughed the man, "The Bounty Hunter´s stuck to his chair like a dog" "Let´s ease his pain..", said the other one "Heh, He won´t survive with an open wound in space", said the other one The men start to work on the steel. He feels tremendous pain as the steal is removed. The men are laughing. "You´ll pay for killing our kind", said the man nearest to him. "STOP", yelled a voice far away Another man makes his way to the two space suits "Stop Rodriguez!", said the man The two look at him and leave the steel alone. "Why Captain Alonso!", yelled Rodriguez, "Those bastards keep killing us and took Alvaro!" Alonso works his way over to Alvaro and wipes his visor, and Alvaro´s blood-covered face is revealed. "This is Alvaro!", said Alonso "What!?!!", said Gulliento, the other corsair, "Why isn´t he in a corsair ship? "Because the bounty hunters only took him", said Alonso, "Not his ship, don´t you remember anything!" "Sorry, captain", said Rodriguez, "So how are we going to get him out? The steel is keeping him stuck to the chair, and if we remove the steel, he will die..." "Get me the wielding tools and call the debris freighter over", said Alonso, "We´re going to have to deattach the chair from this ship" The two hand Alonso tools and Alonso starts to work on the chair. Alonso looks over to the two corsairs and tells them to see if there´s anything in the back of the dromedary. They make their way to the back of the bridge and open the door. A headless corpse huts him and the corsairs jump back. The cargo room is filled with the corpses of dead Bounty Hunters, some of them pierced by debris, and the others torn apart by Alvaro´s grenade during the escape. "It looks like your kid did the work", said Gulliento, "He really is the son of Octavio" "Yea", said Alonso, "This kid is really amazing, it seems that he always escapes death" Alonso´s tool successfully break through the binding and the chair is free. "Quickly!", he yelled, "We need to get this onto the freighter now! Alvaro´s life support won´t last for ever! They carry Alvaro over to the chair and carry him into the freighter, and some of the corsairs look at the team, and more at Alvaro´s body. "Get the doc over here now!", he yelled, "Alvaro is severely injured!" A medical team goes over to Alvaro and put him on the ground and quickly pull Alvaro´s helmet off, and they see his blood soaked eyes. They quickly clean the blood off, and Alvaro begins to start screaming. "DAMN!", said the doctor, "His left eye is gone and that piece of metal is pretty jammed in there" "Give the kid the pill", said another doctor, "This pain will be too much for him.." The doctors slip a pill into Alvaro´s mouth, and he slips into a deep sleep Alvaro has a vision of him fighting strange ships and he sees his fellow corsairs get destroyed. He tries to ´fight these strange ships, but they prove too much for him. The ships stop and strange beeings go towards him. "He sees a pair of tentacles go towards his body and grasp him and yank him out of his cockpit. He sees the creature make his way into his mouth and can feel it going up into his brain. He keeps screaming, but he can´t do anything about it. Soon he feels a jolt of massive pain and everything goes black. He slowly begins to see a white room, with lights, and can see a man in the corner. He tries to move, but he can´t. He looks over to his arm and sees that a cast is pulled over it. He manages to pull himself up, and the man in the corner jumps up and puts him back down. "You´d better not move for a while", said Alonso, "Your arm is still healing, we don´t have the tech that the houses have" Alvaro ignores his command and pulls himself up to a sitting position. He sees the window out into space, and can see his reflection. There is a scar across the left side of his face and an eye patch is pulled over his left eye. "That was quite an ordeal you went through", said Alonso, "You were basically in the wasp´s nest" "Yea", he sighed, "Where are we anyways?" "We´re passing through Omega-41", said Alonso, "There was alot of good things we got from the remains of the Bounty Hunter base, and Cadiz is desperate in need of supplies right now" "What!", said Alvaro, "Have they been having trouble raiding transports?" "No", said Alonso, "The houses were locked into a full-scale war, and the economy has been severly damaged. Most of the houses aren´t interested in trading, they just want to rebuild" "A war?", said Alvaro, "What happened?" "I don´t know", said Alonso, "We´re getting this news mostly from junkers and freelancers. Supposidly Rheinland started a war in the colonies. Rheinland has gotten severly affected, since they suffered many losses. Even the hessians are more powerful than the navy at the moment" Alvaro looks out the window and sees the asteriods and the neutron star. He can see a skirmish between bounty hunters and corsairs off in the distance. The intercom comes on "Attention crew, we are approaching the jumphole. We may be ambushed by hessians on the other side, so gunners, stay sharp!" The freighter goes through the jumphole and a few seconds later they arrive in Omega-5. Alvaro sees the mighty base of Cadiz. "It´s quite a site, isn´t it?", said Alonso, "Only the Blood Dragon´s home base rivals in its size and mightyness" "Yea", said Alvaro, "It withstood many of the Hessians biggest attacks" "We´ve payed a high price for that thou..." Before Alonso could finish the sentence, the ship starts to rock. Alvaro is knocked off the table and he slams into the wall, his injured arm hitting the wall. His cast comes off and the blood spatters on the wall. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", he screamed. Alvaro drags himself to the window, and sees a squadron of Stiletto´s firing on the ship. Lasers from both the Corsair ship and the Hessians go off firing, blazing past the window. The intercom comes on blazing "WARNING!!! THE HESSIANS ARE ATTACKING!!!! ALL CREW MAN THE TURRETS! SHOOT THOSE BASTARDS OUT OF THE SKY!!!" The ship continues to rock, and Alonso can see the ships closing in. Two get destroyed. One blows up outstraight, but the other one goes on a crash course towards the transport. It crashes against the hull and it rocks the whole ship. "CADIZ!! WHERE ARE YOU! WE´RE UNDER ATTACK!!! A Stiletto launches a torpedo on the engine, and it gets destroyed. "ENGINES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED!!!!!", said the Captain, "CADIZ WE NEED BACKUP!!!" "****...", said Alonso, "The Hessians never try to go this close to Cadiz..." Suddenly the stilleto´s are pounded by heavy fire, and are destroyed outstraight. Some titans come into view. "Transport Barcelona, this is Lieutenant Octavio Gulliente, we´re here to escort you to cadiz", said Octavio The titans pull the damaged freighter to Cadiz. Soon they enter the base of Cadiz, and the skyscrapers in the base are rising in the asteroid. Transports and hovercars are flying around and they pull down the freighter infront of a garrision. The pilots of the titan step into the back. "Ok", said one corsair, "All of you guys go into the garrision..." Octavio notices Alvaro in the corner, in a pool of his blood. "Alvaro!", he yelled as he ran over to him. The wound from the steel is very noticable, and he sees the eye patch, "What the hell happened to you!" "Oh, nothing..", said Alvaro. He falls unconscious. Octavio looks over at the other corsairs. "WHAT ARE YOU BASTARDS WAITING FOR!", he yelled, "HE´S LOSING BLOOD FAST, GET THE DOCTERS AND A STRETCHER!" Alvaro can barely see his dad, and he slowly begins to fall unconscious "Hang in there!", said Octavio, "Don´t die, you´re all I got left..." End Ch 3. Edited by - MercZ on 6/20/2005 3:12:11 PM Edited by - MercZ on 6/23/2005 12:25:15 PM

I´m not too good at any programming or beta testing, but I can volunteer for beta testing.

I saw a guy named John Williams. I´m not sure how he has any relation to the game, maybe it´s just poking fun.