NationStates Jolt Archive

The Hellbore Supermonitor has a sister ship, the Tunderer. The Thunderer was the Flagship of the Stellar Nations Fleet, and had the Fleet's best commander and crew on board. When the Stellar Nations was pushed into hiding, the Thunderer drew off the invaders to allow the rest of the Fleet and the civilian refugees to get to safety. It was presumed lost, but recent intel has discovered that while it was nearly destroyed, it was not entirely. Left to drift by the Invaders, the Thunderer fell into the hands of some black marketeers. Unable to fix it for themselves, they scaveneged the weapons, fighters, engines, etc from the hulk, and left it to continue drifting.

Even though the ship is a drifting hulk off in unknown parts of space, and will probably cost more than the ship is worth to repair, the Stellar Nations government has decided to attempt to find the ship and bring it back, due to the great historic value.

so.... Who's up for finding a 20 kilometer long ship in a 50,000 light year across haystack?

This sounds like a fairly interesting RP. I assume it will be alot of technical-type stuff in an attempt to locate it? Do you have a map?

I'd do it if there were some preset rules that everyone would keep their ship numbers pretty low.

Oh - and I realize this is my first post. Take that only at face value though. This is the FT puppet of a May 05 nation.

I r b nt tlk liek ths. Teh w00ti3s.

oh, yea. I need to make a map.

And each person should only have a few survey vessels, with a few accompanying warships.

The only large warship (Abve a BattleCruiser size) should be the Hellbore, as it is the Hellbore's sister ship, and the Hellbore has the best sensors and drives in the whole Stellar Nations navy. (Alien-Modified. I'm going to explain that eventually)

I think i'm RP'ing this nation as a paranoid one with heavy internal politics. Once I finally get around to making a map of MY territory - it's basically going to be surrounded by nebulas, gavity distortion fields, and minefields with only a few lanes out.

Regardless - I'll probably send a SINGLE scout ship that's Special Forces Capable or something.

What will be the political scenario around this? Will Steller Nations be requesting aid in finding it - or will it be like a race to see who finds it first?

Kinda both.

Stellar Nations requests aid in finding it. Whoever finds it gets an undisclosed reward.

What would happen if the KTDF (Krietan Tactical Defense Force) asked for Stellar Nations to help cover certain operational costs just for being there?

The Stellar Nations would re-imburse up to 75% or $500 million usd-equivilant (Lesser of the two)

That would work. I assume you're waiting for other people to show interest. I'm all in on the idea. Expect some Krietan fraud of some sort to try and turn a profit off this one way or another.

bump

I'm surprised more people haven't had interest in this.

How many people do you want to sign up before we start?

Two or three more, hopefully

I guess i've got to keep bumping this until someone else responds then, don't I?