OOC: Jager, I don't really have a website for the Lethe myself, and Rak's and Grundy's lethe sites don't yet have any info on the new Lethe ships. Just for the heck of it, I'll re-post the Deimos stats.

"Deimos" Warfrigate
Shields: 190
Armor: 60
Shield Recharge: 80
Speed: 350
Turning: ***
Accel.: ***
Crew: 97
Mass: 200
Fuel: 6 Jumps
Cost: 3,080,000
Weapons:
6 Proton Cannons
6 Proton Turrets
2 Heavy Rocket Launchers + 15 Heavy Rockets
1 Torpedo Launcher + 15 Torpedoes

I hope you also remember that those Deimos frigates, altogether, cost 50M credits. And, if I'm correct, since you're buying them from me, doesn't that mean that I get the credits?

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Lethe Navy

New Ships:
20 Deimos Warfrigates

Credits: 2,150,000 credits
Credits with loan from Jager: 32,150,000 credits
Credits with payment for Deimos Warfrigates: 82,150,000 credits
Ship Cost: 61,600,000 credits
Remaining: 20,550,000 credits

10 Deimos Warfrigates assigned to the 7th Fleet under the command of Captain Carnotaur

(Message to Carnotaur of the Lethe Republic)
(From Nova6, mercenary fleet commander)
(Encrypted)
(In that case, we accept your generous offer. My fleet shall arrive in Deneb as soon as possible. There we can disscuss further action. Nova out)
(End Transmission)

Nova sent word to the fleet. "We depart for Zebetrious in 1 hour. Then we will hyperspace to Pelagon, refuel there, then continue through Regulus, Tryvin, and then on to Deneb. Be prepared for Regulus, I'm not sure if they will fire on us or not. They do not know about our dealings with the Lethe, but they might not like us nonetheless."

After an hour, the fleet was ready to depart. The hyperspace engines hummed to life, then lit up a bright blue. In an instant all the ships zapped into hyperspace. And then all was quiet in the Arrakis system.....

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The fleet exited hyperspace in Zebetrious, where it imedietly engaged it's engines again and hypered into Pelagon.

"Hopefully they will let us land...." Muttered Nova to himself as he stood on his Kestrel command ship.

"Hail them." He ordered.

"Yes sir." replied the comm officer. "Channel open."

"This is the 'Corsair' Mercenary battlegroup. We are travelling through this space, and are in need of fuel. Will be so kind as to let us land to refuel our ships?"

"This is Pelagon traffic controller. Landing request granted. You may land when ready."

"Thank you." replied Nova. "Channel off."

The screen bleeped off and swiched to main view. The merc. fleet slowly descended to the planet. After a successful landing, they imdietly started refueling. Soon they would depart again.

-Nova6

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Captain Carnotaur do you even have 40M to give me???
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Jager was walken in the middle of the night by a beeping on the computer consol that just wouldn't stop. J ager almost called in someone to shoot it when he relised it was a message. After reading the message from Captain Carnotaur, and the one of his Girl Friend back on Levo Jager decided that it was time to expand his empire. But he didn't know where to go yet. The sourrounding systems are still beinf faught tooth and nail for.

Just as Jager startred to leave there came a message from Pelagon. The air traffic controler wanted to know if he could let a Merc. fleet land. Jager picked up the key pad and typed a message in responce. "Og cource they can land, we have no problems. Just ask them which systems around here they know are not confederation controled. Jager out". and with that Jager went for some breakfast.

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OOC: Jager, don't have 40M now. I will have 40M later on Page 6. That's the earliest time I can get you anything, sorry.

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Assault Fleet stats: ten Artemis, nine Athenas, four Kestrels, two Corvettes, four Lightnings, and sixteen Rapiers. Assault Fleet is in Zebetrious.

Field Commander Eileen McKenzie grinned as the orders to move finally came through from High Commander Shade.
Activating the fleet message systems, she said; "All forces, move out." The Olympian Solidarity Assault Fleet jumped to hyperspace.

Zebetrious --> Arrakis

The defence force on Dune certainly wasn't expecting an attack from a power on the other side of known space; they were more worried about the Confederation of Independent Worlds. So they didn't launch until the Olympians had already opened fire, and it was too late.
The defence force, consisting of three Kestrels, twenty Defenders and fifteen Lightnings, lifted off into a hail of torpedos, the Solidarity's favoured opening tactic. As usual, the defenders responded with their own torpedos and missiles, taking out a Solidarity Athena and a Corvette while the heavier Solidarity barrage obliterated two Kestrels.
The Solidarity fighters swept past to attack the Arrakis Rapiers, while the Defenders came into Proton turret range and were quickly destroyed, but still managed to take down a second Athena.
The Solidarity fighters met the Arrakis Rapiers, and four Solidarity Rapiers went down before the Solidarity warships came into play with their torpedos, finally anhillating the defence.

When no more warships lifted from the planet, McKenzie sent a brief message to High Commander Shade detailing the victory.

The Arrakis System has been Annexed by the Olympian Solidarity

Olympian losses:
2 Athenas
1 Corvette
4 Rapiers

Assault Fleet stats: ten Artemis, seven Athenas, four Kestrels, one Corvette, four Lightnings, and twelve Rapiers. Assault Fleet is in Arrakis.

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Originally posted by Jager:
**ok thought so. do you know how much I will get for the next page?

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OOC: On page 6 you will get (I think) 140,000,000 credits.

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(Message to Shade of the Olypmian Solidarity)
(From Carnotaur of the Lethe)
(Heavily Encrypted)
(Greetings Shade. After having heard of your quick capture of Arrakis, you have grealty impressed us. However, this is dire times for the Lethe. We're rather short of credits and need at least a loan 10,000,000 credits rather soon. If you would be able to send this to us, we will gladly pay you back as soon as we get our next income. We await your response.)
(End Message)

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Nova was on his ship, refuelling, when he recieved a message from the Pelagon air traffic controller, asking him if he knew which systems around here aren't controlled by the Confederation. Nova typed up a message on a nearby consol, and sent it to them.

"I'm sorry, but I am short on information at this time. I am not sure what local systems are not controlled by the Confeds. Though Jadzia might not be. And Sirgil is under Rebel control. Other then that I do not know of any other systems.

And btw, my fleet will be departing shortly, just to let you know. Good Day."

The refuelling hover trucks and workers refuelling the fleet started scattering as the ships powered up their engines. All had been refuelled, and now they were ready to take off.

The warships streamed out of the spaceport and blasted into space. Once all the fleet had been assembled, it hyperspaced into the Regulus system in a flash of blue and white light.

(I am not sure whether or not the Confeds would fire on me, so I am assuming they aren't.)

The fleet hypered into the Regulus system, then into Tryvin, and at last they arrived at Deneb. Nova requested permission to land, and the Deneb traffic controllers granted, and the fleet set down.

Nova, imedietly on landing, set out to contact, in person, Carnotaur, leader of the Lethe, to arrange the plans for what he's supposed to do.

-Nova6

P.S. How do I research new things and make new ships?

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Carnotaur had taken the 7th fleet to Deneb just prior to the arrival of Nova, and quickly ordered that the mercenary meet him aboard the Red October itself. Waiting in the breifing room, finally Nova walked in.

"A pleasure to finally meet you," Carnotaur said, shaking his hand. "Please, have a seat."

Sitting himself down, Carnotaur tapped on a button, which immediately displayed a holographic image of the Milky Way. "Our plan," began Carnotaur. "Is to lead a warfleet through Regulus into Pelagon. We will stop breifly in Pelagon to refuel, then continue on to Zebetrious, into Barnard, and finally into Sol itself."

Letting the words settle in on Nova for a moment, Carnotaur continued. "Both Lethe warfleets will lead the attack, followed by the Pirate fleet now in Deneb. The Cydonians will also hopefully send us a fleet, and, of course, your own fleet will be following us as well. If we can take out Sol quickly, the whole of the Confederation will fall and be ours. The Rebellion will then no longer have to worry about them, or the Pirates, which have promised to become much more peaceful after the victory. For your help in the Battle of Sol, you will be awarded 100 million credits (or just 75 if the battle turns out to be easy) as soon as we have them. If you wish to continue, which we hope you will, you will then be stationed at key systems to prevent an attack by the Darvenians, the Olympians, or the independent force controlling Levo. Hopefully, none of them will attack, but if they do, you'll probably be payed another 50 million. After that, you're free to go.

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(MESSAGE TO SPL CADET, MERCENARY)
(FROM CARNOTAUR OF THE LETHE)
(ENCRYPTED)
(Greetings spl_cadet. We have heard of your great strength in battle, and so were wondering if you could aid us in an upcoming battle. You will be payed 50-60 million, though not necissary upon completion of the mission. We don't have the funds now, but soon we should have the necissary credits to pay you if you help us. If you want to take the job, come to Deneb ASAP. Payment may increase another 10-15 million if your help is exceptional, your fleet is badly damaged, or if other circumstances arise.)
(END MESSAGE)

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Sorry for not putting this post in the Discussion topic, but I want it to be seen here. If anyone has a major problem with that, I'll delete it and put this in the Discussion instead.

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Ok, what exactly happened to this story?!

Rak resigns, creates three absurdly powerful ships, and vows to destroy the Confederation. There are a couple teeny problems with this. Rak, you control Liberty Station. How in hell do you propose to research a ship the size of the Death Incarnate? And just how do you propose to destroy Ipvicus with one tiny planet? And why does your one system get so much money?

And now that I know the reason for your resignation (Ipvicus trying to right what I think is you cheating to make the Rebels suck), why are you so mad at him for just trying to balance the story? The Rebels really shouldn't have gotten smashed as easily as they did.

And suddenly we're allowing new ships again. I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, this means I'm out of the story. BFS I, II, and III collapsed mainly because of new ships. Ipvicus, you can have my fleet, wherever and whatever it is -- I'm gone.

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Lethe R &D; and Fleet Statistics

"Morpheus" Attack Bomber
Shields: 50
Armor: 20
Shield Regeneration: 12
Speed: 400
Turn: ****
Accel.: ****
Fuel: 4 jumps
Crew: 2
Mass: 40
Cost: 611k
Weaponry:
6 Laser Cannons
2 Space Bomb Racks + 25 Space Bombs

Credits: 20,550,000 credits
Research Cost: 1,833,000
Remaining: 18,717,000

New Ships:
30 Morpheus Bombers

Ship Cost: 18,330,000 credits
Remaining: 387,000 credits

20 Morpheus Bombers allocated to the 7th Fleet (Carnotaur)

10 Morpheus Bombers allocated to the 13th Fleet (Grunadulater)

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"Very good design. Excellent design in fact," Scorcher said, grinning over the plans for the Morpheus Bomber. "Put them into production immediately."

As the lieutenant ran off, Scorcher looked again at any new messages or fleet movements. Nothing. No response from spl cadet, no communications with Luke the Pirate King. The only really good things were that Nova the mercenary was meeting with Carnotaur, and that 30 new Morpheus Bombers had been built, mostly to help combat the Confed ODS. They would also be useful in engaging capitol ship formations. Thing is, the Lethe didn't have enough of them, especially with the Lethe expected heavy losses among the bombers.

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Luke's fleet finally arrived on Deneb. On the way he had only lost a few ships. Luke thought this might have something to do with the Letheans' discussions with nearby governments.

When Luke got to Deneb, he bought ten Kestrels, taking 46.9m crdits from the pirates' money.

Pirate Navy Command Fleet Current Stats
Flagship: Hell's Wrath (Modified Heavy "Super" Kestral)
25 Modified Heavy Kestrels
20 Kestrals
39 Modified Argosies
30 Rapiers
8 Lightnings
at DENEB.

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(This message has been edited by Luke (edited 05-02-2002).)

Jager looked around his command center wondering what to do. When he glanced down he saw the message from the Air traffic controler. What an idiot thought Jager. the dam merc. didn't even know where his goverment extended to. well thats got to change. Prehaps an attack agenst the confederation would help this. Seeing the news that CARNOTAUR OF THE LETHE REPLUBLIC is planning an attck on sol Jager decided to send a message.

(MESSAGE TO Carnotaur Of The Lethe)
(FROM Jager Confederation of Independent Systems)
(ENCRYPTED)
(Greetings Carnotaur. We have heard of your plans. I was wondering if you would like to involve us? We will be advancing into federation space with your reply. If you want us or not. and we will fight with you at sol. The only question is are we going to fight each other or with each other. If you accept the only repayment is the replacement of all my ships that are lost. Up to 50M. after that it is my problem. Please respond quickly.)
(END MESSAGE)

After typing the message Jager sent one to the confederation.
MESSAGE TO Confeteration Presedent)
(FROM Jager Confederation of Independent Systems)
(ENCRYPTED)
(I'm sorry that we have not met under better times. with the incomming attack on your space by a large alliance that may include me I felt it was only fair I told you this. If I'm not accepted or unable to participate in your distruction because of political matters I think you might want to consider using me for help. It will codt you 50M and Centauri. If you agree I will fight tooth and nail to save you. But of cource you can let them destroy you which i dont have a problem with I just want to let you know you may get some help. anyways enjoy the next few days)
(END MESSAGE)

After Jager was done typid that load of BullSh*t he decided to look at his out dated map (We need a new one). After deciding that the Nemesis system would be a good addition. But according to the map it was Reble. controled. he would have to send a hail first in that case.

MESSAGE TO Nemesis)
(FROM Jager Confederation of Independent Systems)
(ENCRYPTED)
(What goverment currentlu controld your space?)
(END MESSAGE)

Now all Jager had to do was wait and see how things played out. But LEVO will be falling soon after the confederation since they are allies.

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(Message to Jager)
(From Carnotaur of the Lethe)
(Encrypted)
(Sure. We will gladly accept your help in fighting the Confeds. The fleet you wish to send along with us into Sol should wait in Pelagon. We will also pay the 50 million credits (and we might actually offer you another 10 or 15 million if your fleet helps a lot), though that might be delayed if we encounter severe financial troubles. I don't think that will be a problem, but just in case. So, it is decided; you can wait with your battlefleet and as many ships as you can get in Pelagon. We will meet up with you shortly as soon as I recieve word from spl cadet and Iron Eagle.)
(End Message)

(Message to Iron Eagle)
(From Carnotaur of the Lethe)
(Encrypted)
(In case we have sent you this message before and you have not recieved it, I will repeat our plea. We are in a rather desperate need of a loan of 20 million credits, or 30 million if you could manage it. We will gladly pay it back as soon as our next income arrives.)
(End Message)

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(This message has been edited by Captain Carnotaur (edited 05-02-2002).)

<encrypted hypermail>
To:Carnotaur of the Lethe
From: Pirate War King Luke
Subject: Money
Message: I still have 37m if you need money that bad. And I was wondering when we will begin the attack.
<end transmission>

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Confederate Moderation,

In Stardock Alpha, the new Recycletron had been working all day and night for the last three weeks. Using advance technology in laser beams of all sorts, the Recycletron had permitted to chew in several confederate ships to ordinary minerals. It was a long process, but overall less costly than having to use older ship as training plateform. 123 Patrol ships had been crushed. With the new source of fine metal, it had been sold to private industries on Sol as a fine microscopic dust. With the money, the Confederation had been able to buy 70 Dart fighters. The pilots were training, waiting for their commander to place them on the checkboard.

End of Confederate Moderation.

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Mes plus sincčres Salutations ŕ la Vie,
Reine de ce Monde.

OOC: Since Rak seems to find it difficult to update the map, I've taken the liberty of creating my own updated version:
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Needs corrections and link fixes, but it's a start.

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(Message to Luke the Pirate King)
(From Carnotaur of the Lethe)
(Encrypted)
(We will begin the attack shortly. I am still waiting for a response from spl cadet, Iron Eagle, and Macavenger. I'm also waiting for a response from the Rebels. If they don't answer soon, we'll attack. Just follow my fleet. And yes, if you could spare 20 million credits, we'd be very thankful. You may also now purchase Deimos Frigates at a cost of 4M credits, just in case you want some.)
(End Message)

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Prime Minister Ipvicus read Jager's message with a bemused expression, after intercepting a number of encrypted trasmissions sent to a number of independant and mercenary leaders he has begun to suspect that the Letheans were up to something, now he had proof of their trechery. While the Letheans themselves were little to be worried about, the alliance they had formed with the Pirates could casue him some serious problems. If he was going to come out the victor in this conflict, careful preparations must be made. With a few subsapce messages he layed out his plan of battle with several commanders of the Solarian Sector Defense Fleets.

His plans layed out, Prime Minister Ipvicus once agian prepared to take the R.N.S. Enterprise into battle.

Confederate 1st Fleet--Currently In Yemuro, Moves to Centauri
9 Cruisers Mk.II
20 Frigates
35 Prowlers
55 Gunboats
25 Patrol Ships
35 Darts

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OOC: Okay, I've had freakin enough of this. My messages CANNOT BE INTERCEPTED. I'll let Jager pass on it, but not the bloody Confeds. They cannot decode my messages. Geez... Oh, and thanks a lot Jager for your intellegent move of informing the Confeds right before we attacked. Geez...

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Captain Carnotaur becides for the fact that he already knew because he can read I didn't tell him. I hinted at it. becides when you attack a captail system it is more than one post so i didn't do much realy. Any ways this is all part of my master plan. I'm going to email you and tell ya so you can realy the information. but he intrepreded it one way when it could mean totaly another thing.

Jager

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