NationStates Jolt Archive


Profiteering

TRIAD Enterprises
26-05-2009, 21:36
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TEDF Eternal Solitude - TRIAD Trade Convoy - Coredian Border
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Carmanth Kadesh settled more fully into his gel-chair on the bridge of the TEDF Eternal Solitude. His was a new command, fresh off the shipyards building the new Spire modules at a furious pace. There were still places in the hab sections where one could faintly smell the new construction. The Eternal Solitude was a cruiser class Spire with a double hull, catamaran style, each of the two keels measured three hundred meters long. This ship was fitted mainly as a warship, with a full third of her module slots taken by different offensive and defensive systems.

Right now the Eternal Solitude was escorting four super-freighters, each a battleship-class tri-hull design. Their massive holds were loaded with food, medicine, and basic civillian supplies. Along with the Eternal Solitude, a squadron of six frigate-class warships were tasked to defend the unarmed transports for the journey to Coredia. The convoy was using slipstream drives to cross the majority of the distance between TRIAD and Coredian space, after which they would approach the border worlds using hyperspace drives to allow the Coredians a chance to track their approch. Given the recent devistation and coup in Coredia, this precaution was enacted to prevent their convoy being mistaken as hostiles.

Carmanth sat up straighter in his seat, tail flicking idly at his side as the hyperspace window opened and they dropped back to realspace just outside the closest of Coredia's border worlds. Passive sublight sensors tracking the hours old traffic from insystem. Hyperspace signals were transmitted to any identifiable defense installations, or otherwise the most densely inhabited world. The message identified the TRIAD ships and requested instructions for entering Coredian space and where they were to unload their cargo of supplies.
CoreWorlds
26-05-2009, 22:35
TRIAD's convoy would note that there seemed to be ships everywhere. From patrol ships to the mighty Star Destroyers, the borders had ships continually on patrol for enemy action. Several ships had detected the incoming convoy and took a sniff, scanning them and finding them acceptable. The convoy was let into the nation, escorted of course, and the shipments would be sent to Konoha and Tenetia, two of the most needy systems in the nation...
TRIAD Enterprises
26-05-2009, 22:51
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TEDF Eternal Solitude - TRIAD Trade Convoy - Coredian Border
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Carmanth looked over the comms traffic and nodded. "Navigation, the Coredians will be sending us an escort. Coordinate with Zodiac and ensure we have course data from the escorting vessels when they arrive. As soon as we have the destination position, calculate an ETA."

"Yes sir. Plotting course now." The Khyrolii at the station looked over the image in his holotank, as the data came in from the escorts on the planned hyperspace course. Lines resolved between their current position and the indicated system. "Sir, course plotted, ETA at three days, twelve hours."

"Very well. Link up with our escorts and jump on their orders." The captain stood from his gel-chair and padded over to get a drink, "I'll be in my quarters, the Ex Oh has the bridge. Unless anything critical happens, I do not want to be disturbed."

The Shanii officer saluted and took the captain's station, settling hir bulk into the gel-chair as it conformed to her anatomy. Meanwhile Carmanth made his way back to his quarters, he had just started a new digital reality simulation recently, and since he had plenty of time before they arrived, he wanted to see how this one ended...
TRIAD Enterprises
28-05-2009, 04:57
((Oh Core, might I suggest we just bump this thread up a bit. Advance the plot to the point where the convoy arrives at Tenetia?))